Engineering books recommendation

[median27]

Hi, I'm an incoming 3rd yr. civil engineering student from the Philippines. During my previous years as a freshman and a sophomore student, i only rely on books present in our engineering library whether it is a good material or not.During those days I don't even bother the substance of the book as long as it helps me to study and have some variety of references. My 1st and 2nd years in this college were fine... getting average grades along with average performance resulted from being ill-motivated, and (i believe) from lack of good materials.But being on that condition, i still managed to get some test exemptions from my higher maths and physics and outsmart the majority of my classmates (inferiority complex?). Regrets haunts me later on for not doing my best and for not learning the whole material as well. And the hardest part of it was i easily forget everything what i have learned.

And now, as I'm entering my 3rd year which is one of the crucial part of my course (as they say), i'd like to refresh and master all of my previous maths to become more competent and be confidence of my knowledge.

Can you recommend me good engineering books; from college algebra, trigonometry up to engineering majors? Thanks for responding.

 

[mrmiller1]

'Advanced engineering mathematics' by Kreyszig (9780470084847) is pretty good. ODEs, linear algebra, PDEs, complex analysis, numeric analysis software, optimization / graphs, probability / statistics. I used it in my graduate engineering math course.

 

[median27]

How about books for engineering mechanics(static), engineering geology, thermodynamics, and elementary and higher surveying?

Kindly include PDF files if possible.

Thanks.

 

[edgepflow]

Mechanics of Materials by Beer is a good one. So is Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics by VanWylen and Sonntag.