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 | | Engineering Mechanics: Statics (8th Edition) by R. C. Hibbeler ISBN-10: 9780135770320 ISBN-10: 0-13-577032-7 ISBN-13: 9780135770320 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-577032-0 Hardcover 1998-01 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description This best-selling book offers a concise and thorough presentation of engineering mechanics theory and application. The material is reinforced with numerous examples to illustrate principles and imaginative, well-illustrated problems of varying degrees of difficulty. The book is committed to developing its users' problem-solving skills and includes pedagogical features that have made Hibbeler synonymous with excellence in the field. Chapter topics cover general principles, force vectors, equilibrium of a particle, force system resultants, equilibrium of a rigid body, structural analysis, internal forces, friction, center of gravity and centroid, moments of inertia, virtual work, kinematics of a particle, kinetics of a particle: force and acceleration, kinetics of a particle: work and energy, kinetics of a particle: impulse and momentum, planar kinematics of a rigid body, planar kinetics of a rigid body: force and acceleration, planar kinetics of a rigid body: work and energy, planar kinetics of a rigid body: impulse and momentum, three-dimensional kinematics of a rigid body, three-dimensional kinetics of a rigid body, and vibrations. For individuals involved in the study of mechanical/civil/aeronautical engineering. | ||
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9th edition 2nd printing has many errors If you are buying this for an Engineering Statics class, I would suggest trying to locate the 9th edition, 1st printing. Although the text portion is identical, the problem sections in the 2nd printing often refer to illustrations that are nonexistant or incorrect. In addition, the many answers have no correlation to the referenced problem at all. Our instructor assigns many problems as homework, and this has caused major headaches for a majority of the class. I have compared the two printings, and the 1st printing does not contain these errors. Otherwise, the book does a very good job in explaining the various concepts. NOTE: The people at Prentice Hall are unsure if new replacements will be available until after this semester (Spring 2003). DO NOT BUY THE 2ND PRINTING IF YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK THE PROBLEMS. | ||
Decent Introductory Statics Text This book is good for the begining Engineering student. It contains good diagrams with clear and concise text. It should be easy to follow for anyone with a basic background in physics. My only complaint is that while it has a great selection of questions (with answers to odd problems in back), it lacked good example problems. I am the type of person who learns primarily from studying examples of solved problems and was disappointed with this deficiency. Still, with the compainon volume on Dynamics it can certainly be used as an effective primary text for first year engineering students. | ||
Notes on the 2nd Edition (1978 Edition) I needed the Chapter on equivalent force systems this weekend at work. It provided a very helpful summary review of the material I needed, but it misled me with two sentences. Here was my task: given a resultant force and torque on a rigid body, both referred to a specific point, I needed to refer them both to a different point. The answer can be phrased as follows: "The same force acts at the new point, along with an R x F torque about the new point, where the R connects the two points, and the F is the given force. The additional torque vector about the new point is equal to the torque vector about the first point." The author misled me with these two sentences (paraphrased), "The resultant force at the new point is independent of location. However, the resultant moment at the new point depends on location, since the moments of the forces are computed using position vectors." I find this subject of great interest, but those two sentences misled me. They are not incorrect, but I hope that the author rephrased them and added more detail in later editions. | ||
Engineering Mechanics : Statics The book as a matter of fact covers all the basic subjects required for a future understanding of strength of materials. The explanations are quite long, and shorter sentences could have made it more attactive as an excellent text book. I do recommend it as a text book for a basic course. | ||
A statics problem folder This book is fair. Its strengths are the quantitiy of problems presented and the fact that the answers to nearly all the problems are in the back of the book. The diagrams to the problems are also very good. The weaknesses: presentation of the concepts is light. It is difficuly to build an intellectual understanding of the material from the reading. The "whys" are not explained. Methods are presented a la carte. This book desperately needs a solutions manual. | ||