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Engineering Mechanics: Statics (5th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Anthony M. Bedford, Wallace Fowler
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 321983
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 5
Pages: 656
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0136129153
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.103
EAN: 9780136129158
ASIN: 0136129153
Publication Date: May 20, 2007
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Product Description
While covering the basic principles of mechanics in an example-driven format, this innovative book emphasizes critical thinking by presenting the reader with engineering situations. Compelling photorealistic art, and a robust photograph program helps readers to connect visually to the topics discussed. Features strong coverage of FBDs and important ABET topics. Chapter topics include: Vectors; Forces; Systems of Forces and Moments; Objects in Equilibrium; Structures In Equilibrium; Centroids and Centers of Mass; Moments of Inertia; Friction; Internal Forces and Moments; Virtual Work and Potential Energy. For professionals in mechanical, civil, aeronautical, or engineering mechanics fields.
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 Never Received it. November 1, 2008
Derek J. Cunningham (Portland, OR)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I never received my book and ended up canceling my purchase because the company wasn't reliable and wasn't available to contact AT ALL!
Worst textbook ever March 30, 2008
Frank N
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't bother buying this book. All that you will get is just a long list of problems. Do yourself a favor save yourself $60 or whatever amount of money and xerox the problems that you will need for your classes. There's nothing in this text that you can't find in a good physics book.
 Not for traditional instruction, Great workbook! January 4, 2008
Brandon E. Butler (CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I notice many reviews complaining that this text doesn't have enough information to help you through the many many problems that it contains. While I agree with this statement, this book works on a completely new level, perhaps to the authors intention. First off, it's Statics, so the entire course will be about solving problems engineers often find themselves. This isn't so much a book cluttered with a thousand pages of mostly useless information, it tells you what you need to get started and then expects you to solve the problems logically.
My advise to anyone purchasing this book, read the chapters before the classes, they are short and won't take much time. The instructor I had using this book used the lecture time to work out in class assignments via the problems after each section, and then assigned homework to reaffirm what we have learned. The book works better as a workbook than a textbook, it expects that by this point you have taken enough Calculus, Physics, and Chemistry to understand what they're talking about.
good luck... November 29, 2005
WMU (MI USA)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
either this class or this book completely changed my mind about statics. The concepts are fairly easy to follow, that is until you get to the problems which are too difficult. I had a tutor for 4 hrs a week, just to get through the impossible problems and try to make sense of the actual problems i would face in exams. get another book to help you out... or brave the impossible
frustrating without a solutions manual September 26, 2005
KDS (NM)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I agree with the earlier comments regarding the necessity to have to dig through the book to find the answers and rarely coming up with them. The examples are way too simplified to help with the homework unless you have a friend or relative or teacher who can explain the steps (I was not so lucky). This book is more frustrating than challenging and its only saving grace would be a student solutions manual. If forced to use this book, I would take a vector algebra course and make sure you got an A in physics first.
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