Fluid Mechanics with Student Resources CD-ROM

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Summary: Flow with THIS!
Review: As a student of Aerospace Engineering, fluid mechanics is A-B-C. This is certainly the most useful book I have EVER used on the subject - It is easy to understand, user-friendly, and truly a treasure- cache for all engineers, as it covers every aspect of F. Mech. one could think up.

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Summary: Fluid Mechanics
Review: I am a mechanical engineering student. We used this book in the first couse of fluid mechanics. Many of my classmates and I find this book difficult to read and follow. The author has the reader constantly jumping around the book with 'internal references'. In other words, while reading chapter 3 the author references chapter 6,7,4,2,1. The reader is constantly turning pages. Our unsatisfaction with the book has taken us to the library to find old texts on this subject so we can learn the material covered in this book.

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Summary: Fluid Mechanics
Review: I am a mechanical engineering student. We used this book in the first couse of fluid mechanics. Many of my classmates and I find this book difficult to read and follow. The author has the reader constantly jumping around the book with 'internal references'. In other words, while reading chapter 3 the author references chapter 6,7,4,2,1. The reader is constantly turning pages. Our unsatisfaction with the book has taken us to the library to find old texts on this subject so we can learn the material covered in this book.

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Summary: Worst display of quality control I've ever seen
Review: I have never purchased a product of any kind in my life with a quality control as low as this textbook demonstrated. I believe the publishers owe ever student who has ever purchased this book a full return. Unfortunately there is a limited way for students to avoid purchasing this text if your proffesor intends to use it. I strongly recommend lecturers do not choose this text as it will force your students to throw more than a hundred dollars down the drain, and to add further insult to injury, your students performance will decrease. I know persons who are now less conversent in the subject of fluids for having read and used this text. If the publishers had even had their children check the text for mistakes they would have ended up with a better product. If publishers are smart enought to read these reviews I suggest to you that you get a real editor to go through the entire text and solutions manual with a fine tooth comb and release a sixth edition afterwards. I feel extremely sorry for any student who has to learn fluids for the first time from this text.

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Summary: Solid Introduction
Review: I learned fluid mechanics from this book in college, tutored undergraduates with the help of this book in grad school, and used it as a reference for my advanced fluids class. In all cases, it was clearer and more understandable than other references I was recommended. I'm not saying this book is perfect - the description of the Navier Stokes equations, a fundamental concept in fluid mechanics, skips too many mathematical steps, as White is prone to do - but overall, if you are strong enough in math, this is a very good reference/first time book for fluid mehanics. White also has a good more advanced text on viscous fluid flow. If you are learning fluid mechanics for the first time, I would also recommend a Schaum's outline to supplement your textbook.

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Summary: This book is hard to read.
Review: I think this book is quite difficult to read. Many equations in the book, I don't understand because I don't know where is it from. It's make me very very confuse. I suggest to buy another book if u want to understand how the equtions come from.

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Summary: Not a good book for first course in fluid mechanics
Review: I was a part time instructor over the summer at a certain university in Midwest and found this book extremely difficult to teach from. Though the equations are correct and elegant but author makes huge leaps from the mathematical vector equations in theory to simplified equations in an inconsistent manner. This makes instructors' life hard as he has to fill in missing steps for many solved problems in the book. After reviewing all the undergrad textbooks on fluid mechanics, I would recommend people to use Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by Fox and McDonald. This book can be easily read and followed by the student while leaving instructor(like myself) for more time to elaborate on theory in detail.

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Summary: EXCELLENT! HIGHLY RECOMMEND FOR BEGINNERS!
Review: I was taught using this text book, and now, as an experience fluid process engineer, I highly recommend it for those who are starting into the field for Mechanical or Fluid Process Engineering and have a stong desire to learn about thermal processing and fluid systems! Great book! I refer to it daily in my work!

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Summary: AVOID THIS BOOK IF AT ALL POSSIBLE!!!!
Review: Please do yourself a favor and avoid this book. This is the fourth edition and perhaps the worst introduction to fluid mechanics book ever printed. I am a PhD student and have had many courses in fluids. This book is riddled with errors and mistakes. The theory is correct but the derivations of certain equations and the solutions to many, many, many problems are wrong! I cannot believe these errors have survived to the 4th edition. Another reason to avoid this book is because the solutions provided with instructors make great leaps in solving problems. Many of the solutions state "this problem requires a laborious derivation and is much too hard to solve" or something to that effect! I also assist in teaching many intro fluids classes and this makes life miserable. Please use the 5th edition (or any other fluids book for that matter.)

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Summary: We need the solutions manual
Review: The book is great. However, as a university student one needs a good professor to clarify many issues, or to make available the solutions manual