Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 1: Statics (SI Version) |  | Authors: J. L. Meriam, L. G. Kraige
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Edition: 6
Pages: 509
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0471787027
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.103
EAN: 9780471787020
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Publication Date: January 2, 2008
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Product Description
Over the past 50 years, Meriam & Kraige's Engineering Mechanics: Statics has established a highly respected tradition of excellence--a tradition that emphasizes accuracy, rigor, clarity, and applications. Now in a Sixth Edition, this classic text builds on these strengths, adding a comprehensive course management system, Wiley Plus, to the text, including an e-text, homework management, animations of concepts, and additional teaching and learning resources. New sample problems, new homework problems, and updates to content make the book more accessible. The Sixth Edition continues to provide a wide variety of high quality problems that are known for their accuracy, realism, applications, and variety motivating students to learn and develop their problem solving skills. To build necessary visualization and problem-solving skills, the Sixth Edition continues to offer comprehensive coverage of drawing free body diagrams-- the most important skill needed to solve mechanics problems.
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 an engineering student March 13, 2006
Craig Yamashiro
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Engineering mechanics by Meriam and Kraige provides an excellent treatment of the subject matter, providing that one has all the necessary tools to handle this course. This means to have your geometry, algebra, trig., physics, and calculus internally wired. If not, one has to do the deep reviews, spending time and energy at grasping the basic concepts.
Also, if the discussion of the theory seems thin and problem sets seem unrepresentative, might I suggest another statics book by Riley and Sturges, 2nd ed. The exposition is expanded and provides clarity, the problem sets are a bit on the bland side, but the example sets provide reasonable representation to the problems in the book.
But, of all the problem sets of all statics books I have seen, Meriam and Kraige has the most realistic graphics and real world stuff. If you can internalize this book, your other mechanics courses like mech. of materials, dynamics, and fluids will move much more smoothly.
And, if a problem in the text appears impossible, it is always because of a misunderstanding of simpler concepts. It doesn't hurt being creative when problem solving. That is, to make additional sketches, draw diagrams, to QUESTION each and every part of the problem. To break apart or separate the problem into components and then mentally observing the parts under a "magnifying glass."
This book is very challenging, and it definitely helps if you have an instructor who has energy to be able to MAKE CLEAR any concepts whether in class, through paper handouts, in person, or even through email. If your instructor is lazy, you know where most of the energy of effort will have to come from.
Finally, if you has the drive, you can succeed. If your tank is low on gas, head for your next review station. Don't let any misunderstandings linger in your mind, siphoning your confidence, time, and energy. Sometimes, you gotta hike a mountain, going from review to review. You can do it.
My Review March 14, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
the book is great i'm enjoying it very much, despite the physics needed to do the work.
fantastic high level text October 19, 2007
foozman (Gaithersburg, MD)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Statics! July 1, 2009
Taf (DC)
My professor is the author of this book. I have to say, he self endorses this product almost every in class and he had every right to. The book is very organized and had a variety of problems that ranged from easy to challenging. I'm not a nerd, but I did enjoy solving the exercises.
Just what I wanted September 9, 2009
D. Moyer (Boyertown, Pa)
Brand new book just like the description said and at a great price for a student. Thanks!
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