Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ferdinand P. Beer, Jr., E. Russell Johnston, William E. Clausen, Phillip J. Cornwell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 6516
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 8
Pages: 1355
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Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0073212202
Dewey Decimal Number: 620
EAN: 9780073212203
Publication Date: May 9, 2006
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Product Description
The new Eighth Edition of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Beer/Johnston series. Continuing in the spirit of its successful previous editions, the Eighth Edition provides conceptually accurate and thorough coverage together with a significant addition of new problems, including biomechanics problems, and the most extensive media resources available. Text comes with an outstanding media package which includes, Hands on Mechanics, ARIS Homework Management System and YourOtherTeacher.Com
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 Very solid and important text May 15, 2000
Engineer (Chattanooga, TN USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Very few books provide solid material like this one (Meriam's is an excellent one too). In fact I have become interested in mechanics after I was Introduced to this text for the 1st time in 1984. Recently, I started to collect and work all the editions of this book. This text requires a skilful instructor that can present the material in a way worthy of this text. please do not hate this text if you really want unsurpass knowledge in mechanics, because there are many "engineering mechanics" texts around you that teach nothing.
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Brandon M. Rotavera (University of Central Florida)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
It amazes me how someone could not find this text incredibly useful? It provides elaborate in-chapter examples, numerous practice examples, and a description on how to attack a given problem at the end of the chapter. I am a Senior and I can honestly say that this is the best text I have used.....
 Good Book October 16, 2005
Leonardo Yi Meza (Panama)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I used this book 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 this book, and I recommend it to everyone.
 Disappointed February 15, 2006
P. Simionescu (OK)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
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).
 Too difficult March 18, 2003
Elim Garak (Australia)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Without doubt, this is the worst textbook I ever had the misfortune to read.I used it for a rushed 1st year dynamics course, and found the book utterly useless. The concepts are scattered and are introduced using complicated mathematics, some of which is beyond 1st year level. Even simply trying to read through the verbal explanations is near impossible for beginner students, simply because of the depth of knowledge required to do so. The problems, while plentiful, are simply too difficult. Original thinking is one thing, these problems require something else entirely. I realise, of course, that textbooks must be challenging in order to maintain academic standards, but this book goes too far, to the point where students end up discouraged from the subject simply because the concepts are so difficult. While I maintain the greatest respect for Mr Beer, as I am sure that he is a brilliant engineer (his book is testament to that), the text is simply too in-depth. For future editions, I recommend that he go through the book and greatly simplify both the language and the problems. Until this book is simplified, I recommend the Hibbler Dyanmucs text to any other students out there.
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