Product Description

A modern text for use in today′s classroom!
The revision of this classic text continues to provide the same high quality material seen in previous editions. In addition, the fifth edition provides extensively rewritten, updated prose for content clarity, superb new problems, outstanding instruction on drawing free body diagrams, and new electronic supplements to assist learning and instruction.
If you think you have seen Meriam & Kraige before, take another look: it′s not what you remember it to be...it′s better!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133744 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

From the Back Cover
Over the past 50 years, Meriam & Kraige′s Engineering Mechanics: Statics has established a highly respected tradition of Excellence—A Tradition that emphasizes accuracy, rigor, clarity, and applications. Now completely revised, redesigned, and modernized, the new fifth edition of this classic text builds on these strengths, adding new problems and a more accessible, student–friendly presentation.

NEW FEATURES

Accessibility: New Contributors Bill Palm has revised the text to make it easier to understand

Pedagogy: End–of–Chapter summaries and highlighted "key concepts" sections help students remember key points

New Application Areas: Includes new application areas such as biomechanics

New Homework Problems: 50% of the problems are new or revised

Solving Problem With...: A Series of optional booklets on "Solving Statics Problems with" Matlab, Mathcad, and Maple

Web–Based Problem Solving: A Collection of over 150 online problems

Extension Sample Problems: These problems show how computational tools can be used to solve a variety of ′What If′ Scenarios

Electronic Figures and Electronic Transparencies of Solved Problems: Text figures and more than 100 solved problems are available on the Web

Customer Reviews

Brillant book for learning and examples
Im usually lost in my lectures for applied mechanics, but weh n igo home and go through this book (even though its time consuming) i understand more then what i did previously. The worked examples are excellent, as they give you a variety of way of solving a problem i.e graphically, algerbraically or using othe rnew methods. This and its counterpart are a must have for self learning.

The book is not helpful at all.
This book is horrible. The examples are not helpful and there are only one or two per problem set. Also, the text is hard to follow. The only good part about the book is that it has some challenging and interesting problems. If I didn't have such an awesome professor, I wouldn't be able to do them based on the information in the book alone. This is a subject where good examples can make all the difference in understaning the material. The book simply doesn't get it done.