Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 620.104 EAN: 9780471596073 ISBN: 0471596078 Label: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 478 Publication Date: 1975-01-01 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Studio: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Known for its accuracy, clarity, and applications, Meriam & Kraige's "Engineering Mechanics: Statics" has provided a solid foundation of mechanics principles for more than 50 years. Now in its new Sixth Edition, the book continues to help readers develop their problem solving skills with an extensive variety of highly interesting problems related to engineering design. In the new edition, more than 50 per cent of the homework problems are new. There are also many new sample problems. To help readers build necessary visualization and problem solving skills, the book strongly emphasizes drawing free body diagrams the most important skill needed to solve mechanics problems.
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Customer Rating: Summary: good condition, almost brand new! Comment: I got the book a little less than a week and when I checked to see the inside of the book everything was in place. Not a scratch of tear, not even signs of wear. Customer Rating: Summary: Very confusing book Comment: I bought this book for my statics class, it is very confusing. Important and non-important things are mixed together so you don't even know what you should focus on. Example problems take some time to figure out, because not all the details are shown. All of the 'actual' problems are harder than the examples, which means solving them will take some luck and a lot of hours. Only the odd numbers have answers shown. There is no solutions manual, so if your stuck, you will stay stuck. The good thing is, though, the back of the book includes a lot of formulas regarding statics so it can be easily used as a reference. Customer Rating: Summary: Almost Useless Comment: This is the worst book I have had to use so far in my studies as an engineer. The chapters are all extremely short ranging from 1-4 pages which means that it is very dense, concise, and rather hard to fully understand. The examples are all too simple compared to the homework problems to be useful and they do not fully explain how they get each answer. Homework problems range from easy to extremely difficult but they get hard real fast. The book gives the answers to all odd problems, but if you don't know how to do the problems, they're pretty useless.
About the only good thing for this book is the fact that the homework problems are so hard that if you do fully master them and are able to complete them quickly and without help, you really don't need to worry too much about your exams.
I you're required to get this book for your class I suggest getting a reference book to go with it or just study for a really long time. Customer Rating: Summary: Should come with Kraige Comment: I have used this book and the accompanying statics book all within the last year. The author is my Dynamics professor. These books are not as thick as other Statics/Dynamics books I have seen, and the reason is that they are more problem-set oriented than lecture. You really need a good teacher to help you understand the problems and material. This is where having the author as the teacher helps. The instructional sections of the book are minimal, and I have found the problem sets better for the learning process.
If I were to change this book I would add numerical solutions to every problem, not just the odd ones. And for whatever reason, the publishing oversight is uber critical of posting solutions anywhere other than the classroom, and this can be a nuisance sometime.
Fun fact...a self-proclaimed car guy, Kraige loves problems with cars in them, so there are quite a few of those in there. Customer Rating: Summary: fantastic high level text Comment: I teach the honors section of combined Statics and Mechanics of Materials course at Penn State University. This book is fantastic. The students love it. It is both pretty and clearly written. The problems and examples are at a consistent level of difficulty, and the full range is covered. One drawback is that vectors are covered but not emphasized to the extent of component methods. I do not use the electronic resources because they are locked inside a Flash program making it difficult to adapt them to my lectures.
