Product Description

If you want top grades and excellent understanding of machine design, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get hundreds of additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. This superb Outline clearly presents every aspect of machine design. Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples, and lack of dreary minutia, SchaumOs Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Compatible with any textbook, this Outline is also perfect for self-study. For better grades in courses covering machine designNyou canOt do better than this SchaumOs Outline!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #341622 in Books
• Published on: 1968-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From the Back Cover
Master machine design with Schaum's--the high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams!

Students love Schaum's Outlines because they produce results. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students improve their test scores and final grades with these indispensable study guides. Get the edge on your classmates. Use Schaum's!

If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you:

• Brush up before tests
• Find answers fast
• Study quickly and more effectively
• Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks

Schaum's Outlines give you the information your teachers expect you to know in a handy and succinct format--without overwhelming you with unnecessary details. You get a complete overview of the subject. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum's let you study at your own pace and remind you of all the important facts you need to remember--fast! And Schaum's are so complete, they're perfect for preparing for graduate or professional exams.

Inside, you will find:

• Clear explanations of all the principle concepts you need in machine design
• Coverage of all course fundamentals--supplements any class text
• Easy-to-follow examples
• 320 fully worked problems

If you want top grades and thorough understanding of machine design, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have!

About the Author
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Customer Reviews

Extremely dated; professionally risky to use
I just purchased one of these, unseen, having had good luck with Schaum's outlines before.

I was shocked to see that it hasn't been updated since 1961! That's 45 years McGraw-Hill. Surely you've sold enough of these in the 34 printings to justify updating it a couple of times per century?

Most of the content looks current. Some of it, for instance, how fatigue is calculated, sizing of bearings, safety factors, etc., is clearly outdated. There may be other topics which are also outdated -- and this is the big problem -- you don't know which of your calculations is wrong when following this book. For an engineer it isn't acceptable to hope your structural designs are safe, and citing a reference that hasn't been updated in almost half a century isn't going to be much of a defence if anything goes wrong. While most of the material is probably still correct, using this book without knowing what is right and what is wrong would be a form of professional "Russian Roulette."

Machine design is still widely taught, in fact, ABET has increased the requirements for design content in mechanical engineering programs in recent years, increasing the potential market for a book like this. It's too bad that McGraw-Hill doesn't recognize the market for a modern version of this book. It would be very helpful to students and practicing engineers alike. Due to the risks involved in using this old version, however, I don't recommend it.

good value, practical and readable
This is the book I reach for first. The scope is broad, the presentation is readable, and it is full of well chosen, practical example problem solutions. The illustrations are clear and informative - not just filling up the pages with useless photographs and mind-numbingly silly captions as some of the other authors in the field have done.

Hall, Holowenko and Laughlin have covered all the standard topics, as well as the other writers on machine design. And the price is reasonable.

Schaum's helps make it click...
I'm using this as a supplement in a class where the professor is not always easy to follow. The worked problems are really helping me. I wish there was some info on Mohr's Circle though. That would make this book go hand in hand as a study guide for Machine Design.