Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery (3rd Edition)

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This book includes planar and spatial kinematic and dynamic analysis of mechanisms in a computer implementation aspect. The book also includes concepts and numerical methods used in kinematics and dynamics, a reader with some fundamental knowledge in programming like MATLAB, kinematics and dynamics could get acquainted with the book easily and develop multibody dynamics code.

Has a lot of good information but not a lot of examples, really dense and hard to understand. Constantly keeps referring you to use figures from thirty pages ago to answer questions.

Do you love easy to understand book with step by step directions on how to solve problems? You do? Than this is not not book for you. Want to learn how to find the position of a Crank Slider? Again not for you. Here is an example of how bad the book is at showing you how to solve problems. Find the solution to the position of the slider in Fig 2.2 RRR linkage. Solution given by the book. Answer is i6+5k. Thats the sample problem they list and the step by step solution is just an answer followed with "problem was solved using commercially available software. " They don't tell you which software or give you any steps at all. Simply a problem and a answer. To make matters worse the book is filled with grammar mistakes that make you cringe while reading it. You will need to buy another book just to understand what is being written. This book is just filled with problems and answers with no directions or explanations, despite advertising otherwise. Avoid

I am using this book for my mechanical engineering course and it has been a disaster. I am constantly looking for other sources to help with current topics as this particular book does not cover them enough. There are also catastrophic typos in some of the example problems. The worst part is the fact that the authors chose to save paper because they keep referring you to figures from previous chapters. It is by far the worst book I had to use in my degree which is quite an achievement. I read amazon reviews prior to buying books and oftentimes I disagree with poor book ratings (some students are complaining about their own inefficiencies). However, I find myself writing my first review because I cannot take this horribly written book any longer. If you really have to buy the book for a course good luck to you, otherwise stay away from this literature.

Excellent book