Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780471270355 ISBN: 0471270350 Label: John Wiley & Sons Inc Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 646 Publication Date: 1973-11 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Studio: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Fox, McDonald, and Pritchard provide a balanced and comprehensive approach to fluid mechanics that equips students with a proven problem-solving methodology. The text helps students develop an orderly approach to problem solving: start with the basic equations, clearly state all assumptions, perform the analysis, and check and interpret results for engineering consistency and common sense. Students learn from numerous example problems that consistently apply the methodology throughout the book, and the encouraged usage of Excel for number crunching lets them focus more on the meaning behind the numbers.Students can analyze much more complicated scenarios, and become more confident in their problem-solving ability. The seventh edition of "Introduction to Fluid Mechanics" provides more end of chapter problems that can be solved with Excel and thorough explanations of the approach used for some solutions, as well as revised examples. In addition, the text includes a current Case Study at the end of each chapter to show students how the study of fluid mechanics is practical and relevant.The seventh edition is available with JustAsk! JustAsk! The features include: detailed Problem Solutions that are interactive in Problems and Solutions, and Animations of Key Examples in Interactive Applications. A concepts database, also interactive in Chapter Concepts Summary works like a glossary, but also linked to problems. So, choose a concept and search all the problems linked to that concept! Intended Courses: Department: Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering. Course Name: Fluid Mechanics. Course Level: Junior - Senior.
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Customer Rating: Summary: Great book for relearning Fluid Mechanics Comment: I recently had the need to go back and relearn fluid mechanics five years after originally taking the course. I found this book to be amazingly helpful. The thing it does better than just about any book I have seen before is example problems. They are numerous, and make sense. Also, many higher up text books neglect putting answers to significant numbers of problems in the back of the book. Since the best way to learn a subject is working problems, this book really allows you to pick up the subject on your own. Customer Rating: Summary: Useful Fluids Book Comment: I think this is a decent book to learn fluid mechanics concepts from. There are many examples in the book and it doesn't make the subject as daunting as some other textbooks can make it. I don't really think it was particularly necessary for portions of the textbook to be placed in a CD since I eventually printed out most of the material when I was studying that particular section. Customer Rating: Summary: A good introduction to fluid mechanics Comment: I am only half way through the book so far, however I have noticed from other reviews that many students do not like this book.
In my opinion, I find the book to be very enjoyable to both read and study from. It provides concise derivations for Reynolds Transport Theorem, Bernoulli's Equation, Navier-Stokes Equations and others that are necessary to understand fluid mechanics. The example problems are useful and well laid out. What some students may not like is that the book tends to take a more long winded approach to solving certain problems. However that approach is the proper one when solving more complex fluid mechanic problems. Customer Rating: Summary: Horrible Textbook Comment: This textbook, is horribly written. It is does not explain concepts and examples in a sequential manner. Would not recommend this book for understanding fluid mechanics. Customer Rating: Summary: Difficult text Comment: This book goes a long way to describe the most simple concepts in a confusing way. I ended up learning from a different text book. If your university uses this book, it is probably a good idea to take this course somewhere else. This book assumes that you have already taken dynamics and thermodynamics! The problems are not clearly written, so trying to understand the question is often more time consuming than finding the solution.
