Engineering Mechanics: Statics & Dynamics

I can’t call this review a product review because to me a book review means that one had really finished learning a book thoroughly and had done all the exercises at the end of each chapter. This review can only be an easy service review for Amazon and the 3-rd party book seller. Yeah five stars for sure. Except a few tiny hardcover skin scrapes and abrasions, the book that was claimed a “used book” can hardly remind me of anywhere that was used. It was fully and securely protected by plastic wrappings. I could even smell the fresh scent of newly printed book pages after I opened it. The author of this book was a professor who was an authoritative scholar in this scientific field. The book was extremely delicately designed and formatted with plenty of fascinating exercises. I kind of felt sorry for the professor because his book was seemingly never actually used in the meantime when I felt blessed to receive such a neatly preserved used book. Next step is the truly challenging one - start the lengthy learning journey from some time in the near future. I will be back.

I just finished teaching a Dynamics Class with this book. My Department gave me a copy of the Dynamics book by itself, but I wanted the Statics part too, so I could refer to what the students just learned in Statics. I think that worked out well.I really like this book. It has many examples, many partially solved problems, and some homework problems with answers in the back and some without. That represents a huge amount of work to put that all together. I think about how much work it takes to put together an exam here and there, I can't imagine what it took to accumulate 100s of problems per chapter. Good job.Also, the text was well written and the derivations were straight forward.I can see why this is one of the most popular textbooks for Statics and Dynamics classes.The only weakness I noticed is that some of the problems are not physically realistic. For example, in one problem, we care about the 2kg collar at the end of a 2m linkage, but we ignore the weight of the linkage. Most 2m linkages will weigh more than 2kg, why can we ignore it? And, some of the sizes are really big. Yes, there really are 2m linkages in the world, but most mechanical systems are much smaller than in the problems in the book. It would be more realistic if some problems were in cm-g-s units instead of m-kg-s units. In today's world, students' computers can handle real (and realistic) numbers, we don't need to stick to simple integer values. Perhaps that can be an improvement for the 15th Edition.

Very impressed that I received it in 2 days, and it looks like it hasn't been used and seemed to have no markings at all. I'm very happy to have saved some dollars because sometimes a textbook isn't used very much in class. Thank you so much for selling this and for fast delivery!

Our school requires a different book altogether for Mcgraw Hill, however the book reads horribly and changes the symbols on certain constants so it makes the problems confusing. This book however gives some very good examples and reads really well. I would recommend this to anyone taking Statics and Dynamics as either their main reading or a first up supplemental go to.

If you’re struggling with concepts or looking for supplemental explanation/exercises to the basis of your Stats & Dynamics course, this Textbook is a must-have.Scale Comparison with Casio fx-991 in Photos.