How long does it take to read Mechanics of Materials?
James M. Gere
Mechanics of Materials by James M. Gere takes about 14 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1984. 807 pages, about 221,925 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Fourth Edition of this classic text carries on the Gere/Timoshenko tradition of quality, while incorporating a host of content and software-based improvements. Revisions to the Fourth Edition include: Presentation of difficult concepts revised for clarity. (For example, a new Chapter 8 contains expanded coverage of combined loadings.) More than 60% of the problems updated and improved with real-life systems, loadings, and dimensions. More realistic content and solution steps included in worked examples. New realistic 3-D rendered artwork. Bound-in 3.5" disk contains Mathcad Engine 5.0 for Windows - a powerful, easty-to-use computational program - which includes a set of worksheets for solving equation-based problems.
Subjects: Applied Mechanics, Materials, Mechanics, Applied, Problems, exercises, Problems, exercises, etc, Strength of materials
