Engineering Mechanics - Statics and Dynamics (11th Edition) | 
| Author: Russell C Hibbeler
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 6221
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 11
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1392
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 8.3 x 2.2
ISBN: 0132215098
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
EAN: 9780132215091
ASIN: 0132215098
Publication Date: July 21, 2006
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Product Description
Offers a concise yet 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 users' problem-solving skills. Features "Photorealistc" figures (over 400) that have been rendered in often 3D photo quality detail to appeal to visual learners. Presents a thorough combination of both static and dynamic engineering mechanics theory and applications. Features a large variety of problem types from a broad range of engineering disciplines, stressing practical, realistic situations encountered in professional practice, varying levels of difficulty, and problems that involve solution by computer. For professionals in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, aeronautical engineering, and engineering mechanics careers.
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 Review March 18, 2008
I had to order this book for my Statics and Dynamics class at the University of Michigan. The book is decent but is nothing special. There are a great deal of practice problems and a sufficient amount of examples. The information is pretty clear but I feel it could be described in a better manner than made things easier to comprehend.
 A case study in textbooks printed only to enrich the publishers May 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I should preface this by saying that I am not a mechanical engineer. There may be important conventions for mechanical engineers illustrated in this book, but that I would not know.
It is better to think of this book not as a textbook but as a set of problems with some solutions. The "text" of this textbook is so poorly written that it is better treated as pointers to sections of your math or physics books you may need to review. The material and problems is not difficult, just poorly explained.
The author is sloppy with notation throughout the book, particularly the section on dynamics. It is not unusual for new notation to be introduced -- unexplained -- in an example or problem.
On that point, most books of this type contain answers to the odd numbered problems. This book is no different (and contains answers to some even ones as well) but is particularly fanatical about keeping this section's page count down. It is common for textbooks to avoid printing a graph for a problem that requires one and instead just list the equation. This book takes that one step farther and sometimes omits the equation in favor of a handful of arbitrary points. This is particularly ridiculous because (like most recent textbooks) the "text" is obstructed by an irrelevant parade of pictures and colored boxes (complete with drop shadows!).
My understand is that this series is infamous for containing many errors. The 9th edition had an egregious error in the first chapter on the SI system, for example. I noticed few outright errors (and on a second look most of those were just sloppiness) in this edition, but be warned.
Between the poor text, gratuitous drop-shadows, and general lack of care for the reader this book looks like it was printed for no reason other than killing the secondary market for the 10th edition.
 GREAT JOB! November 6, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is the book required in my engineering mechanics class and its a pretty good book. has alot of examples and solutions to some of the practice problems. alot better deal than buying the two books separately even though this book is rather large it turns out its a good bit cheaper than buying them separately
I used this for introductory mechanics in engineering May 11, 2006
I have mixed reviews about this text. When going through the earlier material on statics and the first part of mechanics, I found the book to be difficult to learn from. Part of this was because my school didn't teach linear algebra until later, for some strange reason, making it difficult to figure out the cross & dot products presented early on. Eventually, when I was taking a course using the later chapters, I found the book much more helpful, because I had the mathematical background to handle it, and even though the material was at a higher level, I understood it better than the earlier material. So, in short, this book is okay, just make sure you're good at math before getting it.
 Good Statics and Dynamics Book April 3, 2006
Although I never took either class, I would rate this a relatively good statics and dynamics book. This is not the type of book where you can "skim" through pages and learn the topics. It might be a tough read, but I still give it a high rating.
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