Schaum's Outline of Continuum Mechanics

by George Mase

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0070406634

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Book Description

Master the basic concepts and fundamental principles of continuum mechanics with this easy-to-use study guide! With its hundreds of fully solved problems, it can help you every step of the way to better grades!

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If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you:

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Schaum’s Outlines give you the information teachers expect you to know in a handy and succinct format without overwhelming you with unnecessary details. You get a complete overview of the subject and no distracting minutiae. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum’s lets you study at your own pace and reminds you of all the important facts you need to remember fast! And Schaum’s is so complete it’s the perfect tool for preparing for graduate or professional exams!

For comprehensible coverage of both theory and real-world applications, you can’t do better than this Schaum’s Outline of Continuum Mechanics. It gives you everything you need to get ready for tests and earn better grades! You get plenty of worked problems solved for you step by step along with hundreds of practice problems. This is the study guide to choose if you want to ace continuum mechanics!

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Customer Reviews

This is a great text to use as a quick reference for most things continuum mechanics- Mase does a very respectable job at summarizing this beautiful subject. I think this would be a great supplement to a CM course, although the notation strays from what is popular today. The power of this book is that almost everything appears in both indicial notation and Gibbs (boldface) notation. This makes it easy to follow along even if you aren't yet comfortable with the indicial notation. The worked problems are all very brief- they demonstrate in perhaps the simplest manner possible the basics of mechanics. Like every other CM book out there, this one has a few things that are done exceptionally well, and a few things that fall short. I will continue my search for the best CM book in print...

Across 200 some pages, the topics include math prelims; stress; deformation; kinematics; balance laws; linear elasticity; linear fluids; classical plasticity; classical viscoelasticity. The figures are clear and illustrate the points being made. I don't know if I got a bad printing, but the superposed dots used to indicate time derivatives didn't appear in my copy.

Better than most professors, but concepts are still difficult to grasp. Have you ever had one of those tennis ball machines go crazy at you? That is how continuum mechanics is, you constantly have things hurled in your direction and you don't know how to stop them. The concepts are very difficult to understand since I'm sure many professors have a hard time understanding the course material itself. The Schaum's outline helps very much in the sense that it slows down the hurling of material and it explains where many equations are derived from. This book stands out above the rest of continuum mechanics books in the sense that it offers solved problems, which is rare for such a theoretical class.