Product DescriptionThe sixth edition of the introductory text to the dynamics of vector mechanics. The new edition contains 36 new critical thinking exercises, new art work and free Windows interactive software which visually develops concepts of dynamics using animations.
What Others Say
Get what you pay for
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
I was unfortunate enough to use Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics. 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
I found Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics difficult to read and the example problems did not help with the homework problems. I went to return Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics 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 Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics is flawed and being rewritten.
Disappointed
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
I used Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics 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 Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, and I recommend it to everyone.
