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Title: College Physics by Jerry D. Wilson, Anthony J. Buffa ISBN: 0-13-067644-6 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $131.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Algebra Based Physics Text
Comment: Physics is a difficult subject. This text does an admirable job of making a difficult subject easier.
There are advantages and disadvantages to disallowing the writer to use calculus in writing the material. Some formulas require calculus to derive and so must be either taken on faith as true, or the derivations looked up in a calculus based test. Fortunately the times when this issue comes up are few enough to not seriously hamper the flow of the book.
This book may be read as a first book on Physics. I strongly recommend the book Conceptual Physics by Hewitt for a running start at the subject.
Members of the lay public interested in physics may read both of these texts, as they are at introductory level and contains material on classical as well as modern physics.
The units are in SI ( metric ) which simplifies the math.
The Wilson and Buffa text has Color photos of natural phenomenon and situations that illustrate the physics under discussion. There examples are intermixed throughout showing how to work problems involving the principles involved.
I believe this book is an important part of a well rounded education. Physics is NOT an easy topic. If it were, then Newton would have developed theories on relativity and gravity waves. This book does what it was designed to do, that is assist beginners in starting their journey.
I read the book. I found it to be fun.
Katherine Rogers
Yes, Real girls do physics.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Bad, Not Great
Comment: While I haven't had the pleasure of having Buffa for a professor (and by all accounts I'm planning on avoiding it), the book really isn't that bad. The sample problems are helpful and the escalating difficulty is appreaciated.
The downside is that he tends to get bogged down in little details that aren't really as important as he makes them out to be--especially considering that the book is for people who don't need calc-based Physics (read life science majors, and all non-science related majors who need a GE), and occasionally the problems seem totally unrelated to what has been presented in the text.
Still, as far as text books go, this one isn't bad and if you have a good teacher to go along, it'll serve you just fine.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty Easy to Understand
Comment: One of this book's authors is a professor at my university. While he himself did not teach my physics class, he definitely conveyed our school's philosophy of "learn by doing" through the use of numerous pictures, diagrams, and straightforward exercises at the end of each chapter. I thought the book explains the general ideas and concepts of physics very well, without requiring a calculus background to understand the material.
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Title: College Physics: Student Study Guide and Solution Manual by Bo Lou ISBN: 013047195X Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
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Title: Physics Laboratory Experiments by Jerry Wilson ISBN: 0395874661 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $54.75 |
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Title: Interactive Journey Through Physics: Mac and Windows by Bob Beichner, Bob Beichner, Cindy Schwarz ISBN: 0132541033 Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div Pub. Date: 05 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $43.00 |
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Title: Chemistry: The Central Science (Book with CD-ROM for Windows/MacIntosh by Theodore L. Brown, H. Eugene Lemay Jr., Bruce Edward Bursten, Julia R. Burdge, Theodore E. Brown ISBN: 0130669970 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $132.00 |
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Title: Organic Chemistry (5th Edition) by Leroy G. Wade ISBN: 013033832X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $139.00 |
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