Statics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Equilibrium

by Sheri D. Sheppard and Benson H. Tongue

Book Overview

Statics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Equilibrium, by Sheri D. Sheppard of Stanford University, and Benson H. Tongue, University of California, Berkeley, offers a student-focused approach to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471372994
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.1" x 1.1" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good book.

In general, the book is well written and the information is provided in a logical and clear manner. It is very difficult to write a book on this subject and to keep it informative, interesting and most important simple. There are numerous examples in this book, maybe too many. In general, a good book. Note: The price is high!

Not bad!

As a second-year aerospace engineering student, I'd have to say I'm generally pleased with this book. The professors hand-picked it after being disappointed with the text they had been using in previous years, and I think they did well. There is only one major issue I, and my classmates, find with this text... There are examples, and lots of them... almost too many. We would get assigned a couple chapters to read in this book and would end up wading through about 200 pages, 75% of which were examples that spanned many pages due to the larger text. Most of the examples don't even compare to what the end-of-section questions might ask... Otherwise, I find that my friends in other engineering disciplines (mechanical, civil, etc.) are jealous that we aerospace guys get to use this book!