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Title: Physics: Principles with Applications (5th Edition) by Douglas C. Giancoli ISBN: 0-13-611971-9 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 August, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $131.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.93 (42 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Less babble, more physics please...
Comment: The author starts chapters by giving simple (maybe too simple) introductions. Then he starts jumping from one aspect of the subject discussed to another, feels like a bad novel in a way. Then there's the humour, and lets not forget the colorful drawings, and the pictures, and all the tables. Then, a couple of simple examples that, in no way, go in depth or cover the scope of the subject discussed. Then, BOOM! Five or six pages of problems that you're supposed to somehow solve with the little understanding you are left with after going through the nursery rhymes and eye candy.
WARNING: Unless you have a great instructor, you will suffer, and I mean suffer trying to pass a physics course using this text.
Rating: 2
Summary: Physics Fifth Edition, Giancoli
Comment: While this book has use for college level physics students, I believe the author does not achieve the purpose he states for writing the book in the preface, "This book is written for students...who are taking a one year introductory course in phyics that uses algebra and triginomoetry but not calculus." I have found that my students, even some who are studying calculus, are having a difficult time understanding the examples in the book and many of the concepts.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Book
Comment: This book is pretty good. I took AP Physics B and this was the book that they used for my high school. I highly recommended it, it is the same book used at big universities (like University of Washington) and makes physics incredibly easy to understand. I got a 5 on the exam so no problems that were major. Another reviewer mentioned that it rambled a bit to much, and I agree, but most of the time if you have any intelligence at all you can just use the equations that they give you and you will be set. The problems are not difficult, but make alot of sense for skill level of the students they are dealing with. There is a companion website to the book which is also very helpful. The reason for the 4 as opposed to a 5 was that it rambled on too much like so old professor who liked to hear himself talk.
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Title: Schaum's Outline of College Physics by Frederick Bueche, Eugene Hecht, Frederick J. Bueche ISBN: 0070089418 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Interactive Physics Player Workbook Hybrid WIN/MAC Version (With CD-ROM) by Cindy Schwarz, John P. Ertel, MSC Software ISBN: 0130671088 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 27 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $33.33 |
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Title: Biology (6th Edition) by Neil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece ISBN: 0805366245 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 11 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $126.00 |
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Title: 3,000 Solved Problems in Physics (Schaum's Solved Problems Series) by Alvin Halpern ISBN: 0070257345 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 March, 1988 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: McAt Physics: Study Guide by Joseph Boone, Giancoli ISBN: 0136279511 Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $33.33 |
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