Product DescriptionKnown for its accuracy, clarity, and applications, Meriam & Kraige's Engineering Mechanics: Statics has provided a solid foundation of mechanics principles for more than 50 years. Now in its new Sixth Edition, the book continues to help readers develop their problem-solving skills with an extensive variety of highly interesting problems related to engineering design. In the new edition, more than 50% of the homework problems are new. There are also many new sample problems. To help readers build necessary visualization and problem-solving skills, the book strongly emphasizes drawing free-body diagrams--the most important skill needed to solve mechanics problems.
What Others Say
Eww statics
Actually, Engineering Mechanics - Statics is pretty good. It has a lot of illustrations and good diagrams. The examples are very helpful and they follow along with the questions in the book. Not too thick either. I saw like 6 mispelled words though but whatever.
The good part about Engineering Mechanics - Statics is that they go pretty slow. Chapter one is the basics that you should already know like some geometry, laws, basic physics, line of action, etc. If you don't already know, great review. The second chapter gets into what you will be doing the entire course... Overall the chapters go at a good speed and the questions aren't rediculous. Statics is something you have to keep practicing to get so there are plenty of problems in the book. The BEST part is... a solution ... Read More
good condition, almost brand new!
I got the book a little less than a week and when I checked to see the inside of the book everything was in place. Not a scratch of tear, not even signs of wear.
Very confusing book
I bought Engineering Mechanics - Statics for my statics class, it is very confusing. Important and non-important things are mixed together so you don't even know what you should focus on. Example problems take some time to figure out, because not all the details are shown. All of the 'actual' problems are harder than the examples, which means solving them will take some luck and a lot of hours. Only the odd numbers have answers shown. There is no solutions manual, so if your stuck, you will stay stuck. The good thing is, though, the back of the book includes a lot of formulas regarding statics so it can be easily used as a reference.
Almost Useless
This is the worst book I have had to use so far in my studies as an engineer. The chapters are all extremely short ranging from 1-4 pages which means that it is very dense, concise, and rather hard to fully understand. The examples are all too simple compared to the homework problems to be useful and they do not fully explain how they get each answer. Homework problems range from easy to extremely difficult but they get hard real fast. The book gives the answers to all odd problems, but if you don't know how to do the problems, they're pretty useless.
About the only good thing for Engineering Mechanics - Statics is the fact that the homework problems are so hard that if you do fully master them and are able to complete them quickly and without help, you ... Read More
Should come with Kraige
I have used Engineering Mechanics - Statics and the accompanying statics book all within the last year. The author is my Dynamics professor. These books are not as thick as other Statics/Dynamics books I have seen, and the reason is that they are more problem-set oriented than lecture. You really need a good teacher to help you understand the problems and material. This is where having the author as the teacher helps. The instructional sections of the book are minimal, and I have found the problem sets better for the learning process.
If I were to change Engineering Mechanics - Statics I would add numerical solutions to every problem, not just the odd ones. And for whatever reason, the publishing oversight is uber critical of posting solutions anywhere other than the classroom, ... Read More
