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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics | 
 enlarge | Author: Ferdinand P. Beer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
Buy New: $79.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1269764
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0073209260
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
EAN: 9780073209265
ASIN: 0073209260
Publication Date: February 15, 2005
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Product Description
For the past forty years Beer and Johnston have been the uncontested leaders in the teaching of undergraduate engineering mechanics. Over the years their textbooks have introduced significant theoretical and pedagogical innovations in statics, dynamics, and mechanics of materials education. At the same time, their careful presentation of content, unmatched levels of accuracy, and attention to detail have made their texts the standard for excellence. The new Seventh Edition of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics continues this tradition.
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 Get what you pay for October 15, 2008
You get what you pay for with this one... upon receiving the book I found the book is in new condition but once I opened the front cover the bindings were slashed and now my book is falling apart. Also, Amazon has done nothing to help me and now I have a completely value-less 150 dollar book that I won't be able to trade in at the end of the semester... My recommendation is just get your books from the book store.
Worthless September 4, 2007
I was unfortunate enough to use this book. If you are an undergrad run away. Yes if you study the book excessively it might help but it has crummy examples and getting specific information without reading the whole chapter 2-3 times is like pulling teeth.
Run away May 11, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this book difficult to read and the example problems did not help with the homework problems. I went to return this book after taking Dynamics to find out that an 8th edition is being released and the book store would only offer my $7.25 for a book I paid well over $100.00. The fact that an 8th edition is being release so soon tells me that this book is flawed and being rewritten.
 Disappointed February 15, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
While the theory is somehow digestible, the problems are way too difficult and out of the real world. TO THE AUTHORS: When you imagine a mechanical system to be analyzed, try to make it real, not weird. Set as unknown the parameters that cannot be measured not those that can. Please, don't distort the engineering thinking of our students. (By the way: Fig. B.1 on page 1297 shows a crankshaft not a camshaft! Your solutions to problems 16.107 and 16.108 in the Instructor's Manual do not include the normal acceleration of the clamp. Energy Conservation when applied to Prob. 16.108 gives a term in omega^2).
 Good Book October 16, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I used this book for the course of Dynamics in Civil Engineering. It was the textbook of my class. The examples are basic, and show you how to use the basic principles of dynamics to solve the more challeging problems at the end of each chapter. I enjoyed a lot this book, and I recommend it to everyone.
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