Engineering Mechanics, Statics
by Leroy D. Sturges, William F. Riley
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Author: Leroy D. Sturges, William F. RileyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10-30
ISBN: 0471053333
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: Wiley
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Book Review: Worse than his lectures
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is just bad. Like calculus, statics is one of the most crucial courses for an engineering student and if you don't truly learn the material, the road ahead will be tough. This book will not help you. There are three aspects to this book: informational material (5%), example problems (45%), end of section problems (50%). It can feel like some of the sections with informational material, can fit on an index card.
The author has taken the approach of "Learning by doing" and as such, there are loads of example problems. Some sections talk about a given principle for less than half a page and then have 6+ pages of example problems. This would be an excellent thing, however the explanations on the applicaton of the principles in an example is curt and almost always a re-hash of the already very brief paragraphs in the "informational" section. This leads you to spend most of your time just trying to follow the logic (which isn't explained) in the example problem at which point your statics class becomes more of a self-taught experience.
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