I just finished teaching a Dynamics Class with this book.  My Department gave me a copy of the Dynamics book by itself, but I wanted the Statics part too, so I could refer to what the students just learned in Statics.  I think that worked out well.<br><br>I really like this book.  It has many examples, many partially solved problems, and some homework problems with answers in the back and some without.  That represents a huge amount of work to put that all together.  I think about how much work it takes to put together an exam here and there, I can't imagine what it took to accumulate 100s of problems per chapter. Good job.<br><br>Also, the text was well written and the derivations were straight forward.<br><br>I can see why this is one of the most popular textbooks for Statics and Dynamics classes.<br><br>The only weakness I noticed is that some of the problems are not physically realistic. For example, in one problem, we care about the 2kg collar at the end of a 2m linkage, but we ignore the weight of the linkage. Most 2m linkages will weigh more than 2kg, why can we ignore it?  And, some of the sizes are really big. Yes, there really are 2m linkages in the world, but most mechanical systems are much smaller than in the problems in the book.  It would be more realistic if some problems were in cm-g-s units instead of m-kg-s units. In today's world, students' computers can handle real (and realistic) numbers, we don't need to stick to simple integer values.  Perhaps that can be an improvement for the 15th Edition.