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Title: Far too wordy and lofty for an engineer
Review: Although Dr. Williams is an engineering genius, he has trouble laying out a clear and concise solution. I just took my first undergraduate dynamics class, and found it easier to teach myself the material rather than try and sift through all the confusing prose that Dr. Williams considers educational text.A good textbook contains the background (perhaps theory), procedure, and solved examples of problems to teach a student a particular technique of solving a problem. I found this book contains far too much background and theory and far too little of the straightforward solved examples.Although this may be a wonderfully written book for a graduate student or professor to "brush-up" on their knowledge, it lacks in its ability to start from scratch and actually lay out the fundamental technique. Dr. Williams has written this book with the MIT graduate student as his ideal reader.
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