Fluid Mechanics with Student DVD (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) 7th Edition

I used this text book for my college's Fluids I and Fluids II courses.The text wasn't used as heavily in Fluids I, but in Fluids II, this text was our complete source of equations and overall explanation.The text explains the material well, as well as covering much of the content in an example or two. The homework problems are very difficult, but have the answers to all of the even ones so that you can check yourself as you progress. The problems will become harder and more complex as you get through them, but the concepts will become clearer as you solve more and more of the problems.The tables and charts are detailed and give a lot of useful information for solving just about everything in the text.The main disadvantage is that there are equations in the compressible flow portion of the text that were not included because the author expects the CD included to be used to compute the values necessary.Other than that, this is a solid text book.

Overall, this is a solid book for fluid mechanics. I just used it for my first semester fluids class, and both my friends and I enjoyed it! It offers fairly clear explanations, excellent example problems, and is interesting, concise, and offers a lot of clearly illustrated figures, as well as a lot of excellent problems at the end of the chapters. So, why the 4 stars? Well, here are the problems with the book:- Many of the solutions at the end of the book are wrong... which is very frustrating since this is the 7th printing of this textbook.- The book skips a lot of steps sometimes (especially during the Navier-Stokes equations section, which is very frustrating for someone first learning the subject). In general, this book assumes you have a very strong math background (i.e. you can instantly recognize and solve diff. eqs, double/triple integrals)- Not enough examples - the examples White does go through are very basic compared to the problems at the end of the chapters. However, this can be easily fixed by searching for additional practice problems online.All in all, this is a solid book.. it is overall very readable and interesting, assuming you have a strong math background. Just be familiar with some basic first order diff eqs, some linear algebra, and multivariable and you should be fine!

Item description said "good" but when I got it it is essentially brand new!

This book came without the DVD promised, and is the White-cover International Edition. Everywhere that it says International on it has been conveniently covered with stickers, and I didn't find out it was the wrong book until I did the wrong homework assignment. I have attempted to return it, and the seller will not respond to me past telling me that I can return the book. They won't tell me where to send it, and so I can't return it to get my refund. This was a total waste of over a hundred dollars, and I feel like I've been scammed. Being fair, the text is the same, but the problems are out of order. If that doesn't bother you, this book is alright, but I think the deception is unacceptable, and am completely unimpressed by this transaction.

Great text book. It really helped me get through my fluid dynamics class and I could not have done the final without it. Also it is a great help for other classes. It's full of great content

I ordered this book hoping for a little better quality product. I expected there to be wear from the standard use, but this book has been thrown around a little bit more than the notes said about it. I think the book will work fine for me, but I had really hoped for a little bit better quality.

I understand this course is hard in general, however this book was no help whatsoever. Book is very bad at explaining the topics unless you're good in the subject. The book tends to skip steps in the solutions, and most of them are simple in comparison to the assignment problems. The only thing good about this book is they give out a lot of work problems at the end of each chapter.pros: lots of work problemscons: hard to read, skips steps in solutions

I loved this book cause I had a hard time learning in class. this book helped me get the main topics and know how to apply them. it defiantly helped me get through fluids class.