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 | | Theory of Vibrations with Applications (5th Edition) by William T. Thomson, Marie Dillon Dahleh ISBN-10: 013651068X ISBN-10: 0-13-651068-X ISBN-13: 9780136510680 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-651068-0 Hardcover 1997-08-17 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description A thorough treatment of vibration theory and its engineering applications, from simple degree to multi degree-of-freedom system. Focuses on the physical aspects of the mathematical concepts necessary to describe the vibration phenomena. Provides many example applications to typical problems faced by practicing engineers. Includes a chapter on computer methods, and an accompanying disk with four basic Fortran programs covering most of the calculations encountered in vibration problems. | ||
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Terrible book The coverage is spotty at best, very much like "swiss cheese" as another reviewer pointed out. Their are very few examples, and they are poorly worked out. In addition, the exercises somehow expect you to know material never even covered in the text and are nigh unsolvable unless you already have experience with vibration theory or a copy of the solution manual (also very poorly written). It is extremely difficult for beginners and not terribly useful as a reference either. Overall one of the worst texts I've ever had to use. | ||
Swiss Cheese The topics covered are many but the depth is zero and the examples are about 90% too short. It doesn't really help to get a picture and a solution without intermediate steps or even halfhearted explanation. This book is completely inaccessible to a student and will sit useless on the shelf as $130 bucks wasted. Disgusting. | ||
This is the worst textboook I have ever read This is literally the most useless text book I have ever encountered (and I really thought I had read the worst). It is COMPLETELY USELESS.It doesnt explain basic concepts and examples skip mutliple steps on their way to the solution. And by multiple I mean I cant follow them at all. Please, if you are a teacher, DO NOT use this book to teach Junior Meche's. Everyone in my class thinks this book sucks! | ||
NOT FOR A INTRO COURSE Posibly the worst textbook i have ever encountered. Not enough examples, Limited explinations not suited for a introductory course. It's hard to imagine a publisher would have continued printing this to a 5th ed. | ||
Hard for students and TAs When I took this class I was utterly confused by most of the material and some of the problems made no sense whatsoever, neither the set up nor the solution. When I TA'ed the class, luckily the professor worked mainly out of a course erader made of his own notes. The bad part was he picked problems out of this book for homework. Many of the solutions are quite simple, WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM CORRECTLY, a task this book left completely up to me to explain to the students. Also, a few solutions were just plain wrong or required huge simplifications and assumptions that were not intuitive. If you have to buy this book, buy the cheapest copy out there or just photocopy the few pages you'll need. Also, where the h*ll do they get the nerve to charge so much for such a short useless book. It's a fifth edition that doesn't show much care or thought put into it. This book is typical of what's wrong in the textbook publishing industry, we students are overcharged for garbage and required to buy the newest edition of content that hasn't changed in a hundred years. It's almost as if we're paying professors for plagiarizing classical theory! I strongly recommend going elsewhere to LEARN the concepts of mechanical vibrations. | ||