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Title: A reference book, but not a textbook
Review: This book should not be used as a textbook. Some of the notations are not clear, and this makes it very confusing if you are studying the subject for the first time. However, if you know the subject, then you can figure out what the author is trying to say. More important of all, a good textbook should use either Newton's second law or the conventional Lagrangian to derive the equations-of-motion (that is systematically straight forward and the students can easily see the best choice of generalized degrees of freedom). In short, I am very disappointed that UC-Berkeley has replaced the classical textbook of Raymond Clough (Dynamics of Structures) by this book of Anil Chopra.
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