FE Other Disciplines Review Manual (FEODRM)

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Five Stars Review by Amazon.com Customer

Overall

Helped me prepare for the FE.

Over prepared for the FE. (Posted on 4/7/2017)

Not bad, but Lacking Depth for Outsiders to Certain Topics Review by Amazon Customer

Overall

The book does well in some aspects, but leaves something to be desired in others. While reading the review and the doing the example problems is fine, the real issue with this book arises when it comes to doing the practice problems (FE Other Disciplines Practice Problems) for each chapter. Some important/useful tidbits of information are left out which makes this book pale in comparison to the textbooks I would have (or have) acquired in college.

My most recent issue is: moments are not dependent on distance/length for other moments to obtain equilibrium (taken from the solution of practice problem 5 in chapter 7 of the practice problems book). The review manual makes no reference to the distance dependency whatsoever when it comes to achieving equilibrium.

In general, I believe that if it's to be called a review manual it should go into a bit more detail on certain topics. It's not that helpful if it glosses over some information where you'll need to look it up somewhere else (book or Internet) when I could have done that just be reading over the reference handbook and practice/prep material (e.g., problems and test(s)) without spending $200 on this book.

Maybe the issues I'm facing wouldn't be what they are if I was doing this while I was still in college and not 1.5 years after graduating (having not done any of this material since then), but I feel like they should be addressed. (Posted on 12/11/2015)

Five Stars Review by Amazon.com Customer

Overall

exactly the help i need (Posted on 5/7/2015)