- ISBN13: 9780486607542
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Product Description
An excellent refresher volume as well as a classic introductory text, this book features hundreds of applications and design problems that illuminate fundamentals of trusses, loaded beams and cables, and related areas. Includes 334 answered problems. … More >>
#1 by Magickal Merlin on June 29, 2010 - 9:10 am
This classic text on the basics of mechanical engineering is still worthy reading ,even close to sixty years after its first publication.It’s a great resourse for developing and securing your understanding of the established principles of mechanical properties in nature.Anyone,who is searching for excellent proto-examples of mechanical engineering ,can still rely on this text to supplement one’s grasp of dynamics,statics and kinematics.A total of seventeen chapters presented.Plus corresponding problems with an answer key provided.The only drawback with this text is that it may seem dated.Yet,it’s still a reliable study-resource for people concerned with aspects of mechanical technology.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by calvinnme on June 29, 2010 - 11:50 am
If you have Beer & Johnson’s textbooks on either the subject of statics or dynamics you already have a great (and expensive) text. This one is inexpensive with great exercises, and a very affordable self-study text. The one problem with it is that, like many Dover books, it was written decades ago and the language is therefore somewhat archaic and can be harder to read than modern texts. However, the diagrams are excellent and the problems are very good. The answers to the problems are in the back of the book, plus several people on the web have set about publishing detailed solutions to the problems Hartog’s book since the problems do tend to be excellent and well thought out. I highly recommend it as a supplement, but I wouldn’t recommend it as your main source of learning the subject of engineering mechanics.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Paul Minty on June 29, 2010 - 2:27 pm
Hartog’s treatment covers the fundamental aspects of mechanics in an accessible, if slightly old fashioned, way. The textbook covers statics, kinematics and basic dynamics as they are applied to machine elements and basic structures. The simplest topic is the strength of a beam, and the most complex is the gyrocompass.
The textbook is valuable because it is systematic, comprehensive and well-written. The examples are old fashioned (including horse driven carts!) but valid. There is a good mix of geometrical and algebraical treatments of the topics which will be helpful to less-exeprienced students. It probably won’t satisfy those with a keen interest in applied mathematics or who insist on the latest technological examples.
Dover have done a fine job producing a clear and robust book at a cheap price. This is a good investement for a practical engineer.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by George on June 29, 2010 - 5:22 pm
One of the best, buy it for the problem set, if not for the great text.
Rating: 5 / 5