I had this book for MAE160 at UCSD. This book isn't good for undergrad because the material is so scattered. Since it's graduate and undergraduate level, you will not cover a lot of things in undergrad classes, which makes it not clear what to cover. Also, no answers or solutions to the provided problems, which make it difficult to verify that you're doing it correctly. Overall I really dislike the book, but can see that it'd be useful if you read it FRONT TO BACK and really combed through the material. It's written more like a series of research papers then like a nice Prentice-Hall textbook.
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