2 comments about Introduction to Solid Mechanics (3rd Edition).

1. I'm an undergraduate student going to Seoul National University in South Korea. This book was our textbook for solid mechanics course.I want to give thanks to auther. For this book is easy to understand, it gave me much helps.But after studying this book , I found that contents is a little bit easy compared with other books. so I hope next version includes some difficult contents.



2. This book covers all the fundamental topics of solid mechanics very thoroughly and methodically. All important concepts receive in-depth treatment. There are many examples that illustrate the concepts. I hihgly recommend this text for beginners as well as more advanced students of Solid Mechanics.

3 comments about An Introduction to the Mechanics of Fluids (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology).

1. Because I am a big fan of previous works from one of the authors, it came as surprise to me how disappointing this new book is. The book contains a lot of material and discussions that are irrelevant to the science of Fluid Mechanics. In many occasions, the clarity of the theoretical expositions is overshadow by lateral discussions that cannot be justified on a book of such basic level. The reader is left wondering if there was agreement and understanding among the authors on the content selected for the book. I read the book and got the feeling that the book contains parts that are original and interesting. The problem is that they never coincide: when they are interesting they are not original - when they are original they are not interesting. As a whole the book did not add to my collection.



2. There is no other introduction to fluid mechanics that even comes close to this book. I hope it becomes the standard introduction to the subject. It is unique, clear, and perceptive. The best think I can say for it is this: A student could spend decades trying reach the level of understanding they would get from reading this elegant book.



3. This book is unique. It is the most comprehensive treatment of the basic theory of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids that I know of.
   It contains a lot of interesting material that is not treated in elementary texts and is dispersed in the research literature, and the authors present it in a rigorous but engaging manner. What I value most of the book are the insightful comments and discussions throughout; it gives one a proper perspective and a deepened understanding of the subject. The book is not suitable for a first course in fluid mechanics, but it should be an excellent text for beginning graduate students -- both engineering students who want to learn the mathematics and mathematics students who want to understand the physics.

3 comments about System Dynamics: A Unified Approach, 2nd Edition.

1. I have a difficult time keeping this book on the shelf. Most everyone wants to borrow it. I work in an electro-magnetics lab and I have found that knowing bond graphs is extremely useful. This book is highly recommended.



2. I have used this book extensively for several years, and it is the best reference book I have. I work with multi-domain systems and this book is perfect.



3. Definitely the best book on Bond Graphs that I have used. Straightforward, not too long, doesnt over-complicate things.
   I have read most of it cover to cover.

No comments about Spectral Methods for Incompressible Viscous Flow.

No comments about Microstructures in Elastic Media: Principles and Computational Methods.

No comments about Gravitation & Gauge Symmetries (Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation).

2 comments about Classical Mechanics: Systems of Particles and Hamiltonian Dynamics (Classical Theoretical Physics).

1. This book belong to good german teaching tradition, but falls
   below Golstein standard.It is a good text for the exercises
   but do not expect deep explanation for generatrix function,Hamilton Jacobi resolution methods and Poisson brackets
   relaion to differential geomery



2. I have used some of Greiner's textbooks for my teaching and my students like them very much. Greiner's series of textbooks are comprehensive, comprehensible and contain a lot of non-trivial examples worked out in detail-something that is very important for the students. Just a few gripes-there are quite a number of typos and the notation sometimes does not conform to common English usage. Future editions should make the textbooks better.

1 comments about Lectures on Quantum Mechanics: Simple Systems (Lectures on Quantum Mechanics).

1. This is the first of 3 volumes (all independent according to the author):
   
   Basic Matters:
   A Brutal Fact of Life
   Kinematics: How Quantum Systems are Described
   Dynamics: How Quantum Systems Evolve
   Motion along the x Axis
   Elementary Examples
   
   Simple Systems:
   Quantum Kinematics Reviewed
   Quantum Dynamics Reviewed
   Examples
   Orbital Angular Momentum
   Hydrogen-like Atoms
   Approximation Methods
   
   Perturbed Evolution:
   Basics of Kinematics and Dynamics
   Time-Dependent Perturbations
   Scattering
   Angular Momentum
   External Magnetic Field
   Indistinguishable Particles
   
   Englert edited Julian Schwinger's posthumous Quantum Mechanics book. Englert's books seem to follow Schwinger fairly closely, though Schwinger's measurement symbols aren't used. Englert seems to have put some thought into actually teaching with this approach, which he's simplified, but not dumbed down.
   
   After a brief chapter explaining why classical determinism must be abandoned at the quantum level, the book uses the example of Stern-Gerlach experiments to develop the mathematics of QM, a very satisfying alternative to the usual Olympian axiomatic approach.
   
   This first volume covers about the same material as the first 2 chapters of Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics.

No comments about The Structure of Turbulent Shear Flow (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics).

No comments about Tsunamis and Hurricanes: A Mathematical Approach.