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 | | Numerical Methods for Engineers by Steven C. Chapra, Raymond P. Canale ISBN-10: 9780073101569 ISBN-10: 0-07-310156-7 ISBN-13: 9780073101569 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-310156-9 Hardcover 2005-06-14 McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The fifth edition of Numerical Methods for Engineers continues its tradition of excellence. Instructors love this text because it is a comprehensive text that is easy to teach from. Students love it because it is written for them--with great pedagogy and clear explanations and examples throughout. The text features a broad array of applications, including all engineering disciplines. The revision retains the successful pedagogy of the prior editions. Chapra and Canale's unique approach opens each part of the text with sections called Motivation, Mathematical Background, and Orientation, preparing the student for what is to come in a motivating and engaging manner. Each part closes with an Epilogue containing sections called Trade-Offs, Important Relationships and Formulas, and Advanced Methods and Additional References. Much more than a summary, the Epilogue deepens understanding of what has been learned and provides a peek into more advanced methods. Users will find use of software packages, specifically MATLAB and Excel with VBA. This includes material on developing MATLAB m-files and VBA macros. Approximately 80% of the problems are new or revised for this edition. The expanded breadth of engineering disciplines covered is especially evident in the problems, which now cover such areas as biotechnology and biomedical engineering. | ||
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Clear, well written book The authors use a very pedagogical approach. The objectives for each part are well identified, the explanations are intuitive, and there is a lot of engineering applications and exercises. This book is hence suitable for an undergraduate course or as a starting point in the subject. However, if you are searching for long mathematical demonstrations or advanced mathematical aspects (this was not my case), this is not your book. | ||
Very Good Book is very good. it has many numerical methods explained very simply. I would recommend this book to all civil engineer scientist, and also students who found numerical methods interesting to study, and to use it for application to real world. I would gave this book a 5star mark but i gave it only 4 because price. I also believe that the price is too high. | ||
As a textbook? I've noticed several reviewers have benifited from this book as a reference for algorithms in specific topics, which is something the book is really good at in my opinion. However, we studied the book as a junior level textbook in numerical methods and went into many problems in doing so. Although the motiviation is well, the presentation is not. For example, the parts on Fourier Approximation (Chapter 19), and Finite Difference: Elliptic Equations (Chapter 29) really do require good background knowledge on behalf of the reader, and the authors sometimes rush into the approximation techniques with hardly any explination of the underlying logic. For undergraduate students, I don't believe this book is good for self-teaching. More elaboration is needed in the derivations of the nemurical techniques, and without that, many of us were lost when it came to homeworks and computer projects. On the bright side, The graphs are excellent , and the book covers a very wide range of topics and presents many codes and worked out examples. | ||
Chech out paper back international edition. Cheeper and same contents. Type in search the authers name, Steven C. Chapra, and it will give a list of the books by him. you get the same edition but international in english same figures everything. | ||
Numerical Methods made easy I bought this book a little while ago to get more familiar with interpolation which I need to use in some of the signal analysis software that I write. As I was reading through the book I suddenly realized the overall usefulness of numerical methods in general. It has helped me code up routines for solving matrices and interpolation algorithms. After reading this book I really can not understand how courses in linear algebra and differential equations can be taught without extensive use of numerical methods. This book has really opened my eyes to a whole new way of solving engineering problems. Andy (andys@d2d.com) | ||