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Hello,
I've just received my copy of "Vector Mechanics for Engineers by Beer 8th edition" that I bought from LTX (SKU number 13233621) via bookbyte (order number 1302700) While I was prepared to be very pleased, I was not. This is because I received the International edition in SI units.
The main reason I need this book is for the homework questions, so that I can do my homework. I know for a fact that the North American Edition of this book mixes SI and english units. Since it is explicitly stated on the cover that this edition is in SI units and that the ISBN number is different than the book I had searched for, I'm assuming that I cannot use this book for my purposes.
The book is new and in a plastic cover (that is slightly compromised by the shipping, but that is besides the point), so I dare not open it to check if the homework problems are similar at all. Even if only the units were different, I'd have to know which problems had SI units and which had english units to be able to convert between them and use the right units for the right problem.
In any case, I'm very dissapointed I have wasted valuable time waiting for the wrong book, despite the fact that I searched for the correct ISBN and that I was never notified to the obvious fact that this edition is vastly different from the one that students in the USA need.
I guess the burning questions are: "How do I return this?" and "How are you going to make it up to me?"
Thank you,
Ted Lai
I've just received my copy of "Vector Mechanics for Engineers by Beer 8th edition" that I bought from LTX (SKU number 13233621) via bookbyte (order number 1302700) While I was prepared to be very pleased, I was not. This is because I received the International edition in SI units.
The main reason I need this book is for the homework questions, so that I can do my homework. I know for a fact that the North American Edition of this book mixes SI and english units. Since it is explicitly stated on the cover that this edition is in SI units and that the ISBN number is different than the book I had searched for, I'm assuming that I cannot use this book for my purposes.
The book is new and in a plastic cover (that is slightly compromised by the shipping, but that is besides the point), so I dare not open it to check if the homework problems are similar at all. Even if only the units were different, I'd have to know which problems had SI units and which had english units to be able to convert between them and use the right units for the right problem.
In any case, I'm very dissapointed I have wasted valuable time waiting for the wrong book, despite the fact that I searched for the correct ISBN and that I was never notified to the obvious fact that this edition is vastly different from the one that students in the USA need.
I guess the burning questions are: "How do I return this?" and "How are you going to make it up to me?"
Thank you,
Ted Lai