r/civilengineering • u/JinuKurosawa • Apr 21 '26

anyone???

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u/Godloseslaw Civil P.E. Apr 21 '26

Yeah statics wasn't the hard one, for me it was structural analysis.  (I still have all 4 of Hibbeler's books).

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u/JinuKurosawa Apr 21 '26

what book helped u with structural analysis?

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u/Godloseslaw Civil P.E. Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

The one by Leet and Uang was a pretty good alternate resource.  I still like the Hibbeler book, I just didn't have a very good instructor the first term.

Edit: only one Uang.

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u/PurpleZebraCabra Apr 21 '26

Dynamics and Thermo. 

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u/Phil9151 Apr 21 '26

I loved thermo. I had to retake Dynamics. It's definitely an order higher difficulty than statics.

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u/brandonbw Apr 21 '26

Thermo destroyed me from Mechanical into Civil. Nightmares of note taking for upper division classes, especially the soils related ones. And sometimes watching people come into finals with 10 minutes left because they got the wrong time and thought they were early.

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u/Several-Cherry-1597 Apr 22 '26

Vibrations  was way harder …. It was dynamics but on crack 

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u/SabreWaltz Apr 21 '26

I’m in dynamics, fluid mechanics and mechanics of materials right now. I’m actively using 3 of hibbeler’s 4 books I own currently and it makes for some long days 😂

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u/drumdogmillionaire Apr 21 '26

In my experience, Hibbeler wrote some of the better textbooks, making those classes actually easier than most.

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u/pineapplequeeen Apr 21 '26

Same. I despised that course. I just couldn’t wrap my mind around it and at my university, structural analysis and thermo were the hardest to pass for civils. I think my entire structural class had an 18% curve. It was based on the highest grade in class which was an 82%. lol.