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 | | Engineering Mechanics: Statics (4th Edition) by Irving H. Shames ISBN-10: 9780133569087 ISBN-10: 0-13-356908-X ISBN-13: 9780133569087 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-356908-7 Paperback 1996-04-27 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Designed to provide a more mature, in-depth treatment of mechanics this book focuses on developing a solid understanding of basic principles rather than rote learning of specific methodologies. | ||
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Excellent text This textbook covers all the essentials of Statics in a systematic, easy to follow style, with thorough explanations. Highly recommended for beginners as well as more advanced students. All the important topics are covered in detail. | ||
Shames is a god-king of engineering Shames has a calculus based view of mechanics. Others use a simplistic algebraic approach...Shames illuminates the only way mechanics should be taught. It is a treat, but not for the mathematically challenged. | ||
not a book for starters this should not be a sophmore book. it has really bad explanations, and Mr Shames makes reald hard lots of topics that are reaaly easy. i liked the proposed exercises, they are really challenging, but they require a high level of algebra, calculus, analytic geometry, etc... to solve them, that is why i think this is not the right book to start with statics. my sugestion if you have bad physics background is to get the beer and jhonston or the meriam and kraige statics books, once you understand everything go to the shames book. it really has great exercises | ||
Lack of explanations leave students wondering After completing upper level mechanics courses as a physics major and then switching to engineering I thought that the lower level mechanics courses should be relatively easy, especially statics. What I had not realized was that they are hard if you do not have a good textbook to learn from. As I took the course which at one time was taught by this author, I found the textbook to be of absolutely no help other than outlining the topics in statics. The lack of explanation was astounding as I was trying to read it. A brief verbal discription was given for each topic and a relatively easy problem was used for example problems. This left many questions and no place to look for answers. A briefly mentioned topic does no good for someone trying to learn. If topics are not discussed thoroughly and difficult examples are not shown with indepth analysis, it is very hard to learn. This might have been done on purpose to avoid confusing the student, but it should also be realized that this is college and we are adults, and if something is explained fully it will be less confusing and leave fewer gaps than a partial explanation. The student should be challenged by the material and not the device used to convey it. I would have been lost in the course if not for my physics background and my physics textbooks. | ||