Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics

Book Description

From the Back Cover

This best-selling book offers a concise and 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 its users' problem-solving skills and includes pedagogical features that have made Hibbeler synonymous with excellence in the field. Chapter topics cover general principles, force vectors, equilibrium of a particle, force system resultants, equilibrium of a rigid body, structural analysis, internal forces, friction, center of gravity and centroid, moments of inertia, virtual work, kinematics of a particle, kinetics of a particle: force and acceleration, kinetics of a particle: work and energy, kinetics of a particle: impulse and momentum, planar kinematics of a rigid body, planar kinetics of a rigid body: force and acceleration, planar kinetics of a rigid body: work and energy, planar kinetics of a rigid body: impulse and momentum, three-dimensional kinematics of a rigid body, three-dimensional kinetics of a rigid body, and vibrations. For individuals involved in the study of mechanical/civil/aeronautical engineering.

Customer Reviews

I've used both this book and "Engineering Mechanics: Statics" by the same author. Two things jump out at me:

1. This book needs an accompanying solutions manual. There is very little discussion of the material you are supposed to apply in the problems, and no way check if you worked them correctly.

2. This series is riddled with errors, typos, omissions, etc. Be warned, I have come across many mis-typed or incomplete problems, answers, etc.

Neither of these considerations doom the book, but they highlight definite areas for improvement.

I was thinking to buy these two books, but I understand that they need more information, for example, solution manual. So due this I bought the Beer/Johnston collection. Should be interesting for user to have the solution manual to help in the solve of exercise.

This book is basically just a book. It was well written and trys to reach the reader by explaining his thoughts, but this book should be designed for the not so knowledgable in Engineering Mechanics Dynammics. Hibbeler seems to think from 2 examples we should be able to handle then next 20 complicated ones. I do believe a solutions manual is needed for a better grasp of the material. Most likely this is the first time someone is reading and trying to comprehend the material, therefore this book should have a complimentary solutions manual.

Dynamics for dummies this book is not however their are better explanation in this edition, but how can one get a hold of the solution manual, who sells that book, this is what students really want to know.

I have brought this text book. The examples in this book does not help me enough to solve the problems at the end of each section. I would like to know if you also have to solution manual to this particular text book.

This book has good text and explanation of dynamics, but it lacks good examples to back it all up. Examples given are ideal and seldom resembling any of the homework problems. More examples relevant to the homework would help.