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Advanced Mechanics of Materials (2nd Edition)
Advanced Mechanics of Materials (2nd Edition)

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Edition: 2
Author: Robert Davis Cook, Warren C. Young
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date: 1998-09-07
ISBN-10: 0133969614
ISBN-13: 9780133969610
List Price: $152.00
Average Customer Rating:
Score = 2.5 Score = 2.5 Score = 2.5 Score = 2.5 Score = 2.5
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Summary:
Intended as a text for a second course in mechanics of materials and assumes the reader has satisfactorily completed a first course in the subject. Topics are treated by going a step or two beyond elementary mechanics of materials when possible without complicated analytic or numerical methods. DLC: Strength of materials.

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Average Customer Rating: Score = 2.5 Score = 2.5 Score = 2.5 Score = 2.5 Score = 2.5

Advanced Mechanics of Materials
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While the content of this book seems to be up to par, I am very disppointed with the quality. At something like $135, it should be a bulletproof hardcover book. Instead it is a cheap paperback that started to fall apart at the first use. Now, as I progress through the book, each new page falls out like the last. I am very upset because I like to add my textbooks to a lifelong collection. The publisher should be ashamed of this book. Amazon should do something about it.

Book is not student friendly
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Book shows minimal content, when detailed descriptions are needed
NO ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS IN BACK OF BOOK
PAPER BACK, that is a rip off to all engineering students.

ok, not great
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Used this book for a graduate level class on mechanics of materials. I found that it was ok, but very concise and hard to understand at times. I was usually able to figure out solutions to the problems from reading the chapters but I really had to dig. Definatly could have been better written but a good professor will make up for the deficiencies of the text.

Very reader un-friendly
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This book is perhaps the only text book in the market which deals with this particular subject. This is perhaps the only reason why the book is still being sold. The book is very difficult to understand. The language is often cryptic and the most critical mathematical steps are ommitted during derivations which makes this book practically useless. However, if you are already familiar with the principles of Advanced Solid Mechanics, you may find this book relatively useful. Until someone writes a better book, I guess we are stuck with this.

Skips too many steps
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As a university professor, I chose this book for a graduate course because it seemed to cover the same topics that I wanted to cover.

Unfortunately, after using it for a semester, I've found that the book always skips the key steps in a derivation. Often, it is only evident to the reader that steps have been skipped from the cryptic language used by the authors: "Using equilibrium and compatibility, the following expression results". Very important information is left out.

The book is so short on detail that it would be better if the authors simply published a stack of formulas.


























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