Kinematics, Dynamics, and Design of Machinery 2nd Edition

As described, nice book for class

This is basically the worst book ever, but it was required for a class, so I bought it.It's a paperback, which is a TERRIBLE design decision for a book of this weight and size. If you can possibly buy this in hardcover, it's worth any additional charge, believe me.There is no solutions manual, and there are mistakes EVERYWHERE throughout this book.Terrible terrible miserable awful depressing book.At least I'm a senior, so I won't have to buy wretched required books like these any longer.

Please if you like Mechanic Eng this book should be in your collection.Will keep you attention until the very end.

Ugly front cover, hate it so much.

This is the worst book I have ever had. It reads like a manual with little to no graphical representation. The pictures it does provide are either completely arbitrary or ill referenced. Wait to see if you will really need this book before you rent/buy it. If it is required rent it as cheaply as possible.

I am a ME student currently taking a kinematics and mechatronics class that uses this book. Reading this book has been an absolute chore and learning anything from it has been very difficult. Concepts are either very poorly explained or not explained at all. That's not, however, for lack of trying as most explanations are extremely wordy and overly pedantic. There are also no answers in the book, so there is no way of knowing if you're on the right track. The paperback construction is also woefully inadequate. I will be shocked if it survives the semester. Overall this book is massively frustrating and extremely disappointing.

Examples do not make sense, author sounds like he is talking to himself and someone else wrote it down. Homework problems give values and a picture (if your lucky), but do not ask what to solve for. Zero good things can be said about this book.

This textbook is horrible! There are no solutions to any of the problems at the end of the chapter. The solutions to the example problems are miserable as well. It gives you a diagram for a system of bars and doesn't explain why they count n links or j joints or anything. If you take a course requiring this book, think again.

Nice book. Comes with a cd which is very useful

It isn't always helpful. Sometimes the examples go too much into detail and becomes hard to follow for me.

Very good

Delivery is good but internet photocopy