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Title: Sears and Zemansky's University Physics (10th Edition) by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, T. R. Sandin, A. Lewis Ford ISBN: 0-201-60322-5 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 06 December, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $141.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A decent intro physics book
Comment: I think this is a very good introductory physics book. Most of the time, students who give bad reviews to this kind of book just do not know how to study themselves. If you keep asking for solutions manual, all you are saying is that you just want to regurgitate what somebody else has done before...sorry, but science or engineering doesn't work that way. You have to actually use your brain to think VERY CAREFULLY about what you are doing --- learning how to do THAT is probably the only thing you would get out of studying science. You'll forget formulae and examples anyways. When I used the book as a TA, I mostly heard that "I get more out of reading the text than attending lectures." I guess it says something about the faculty quality of my school, but then, I think the topics are very carefully presented, not much of leap of reasoning is necessary, etc. I sometimes felt the wording of the end-of-chapter problems can be a bit confusing, though.
Also, compared to some other intro calculus based physics book (such as Holliday & Resnick), the book feels a bit less rigorous, which may actually be good --- I don't know why that is, but it might be related to the fact that the the school where the auther appears to teach has a reputation for very low quality undergraduates. But if that helped to make this textbook even better, that's a good thing. For budding engineers and others who need calc based intro physics, I think the book is excellent. For physicists, I might go with a more rigorous book.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book for study.
Comment: I find this book to be very good at explaining the concepts of physics. In addition to clearly presenting principles and derivations of those principles, it also clearly addresses issues that are difficult for students to understand. There are numerous examples of how to apply the principles to problems. Some examples are traditional problems that have been around as long as anyone can recall, others are new. This is not to be considered an easy book, nor is the study of physics easy. You must really work to understand the material. To this end there are problems whose solution is not included in the text; the reason is to avoid the plug-and-chug attitude that many people have about physics - that memorizing formulas and techniques are all that are necessary to understand physics. As someone who has been teaching physics for more than 20 years I can tell you that this book is good for both the student and the instructor.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horrible Physics Book
Comment: This is the worst textbook I have ever read. The book does not prepare you to do a lot of the problems at the end of each chapter. There are some problems that take hours to complete, even though they should really only take a few minutes, simply because the book does not prepare you for certain types of problems. A word of advice to the authors: stay in the lab, stick to research, because you obviously have no idea how to educate students.
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Title: Sears and Zemansky's University Physics: Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Waves Acoustics Chapters 1-21, Student Solutions Manual by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman ISBN: 0201643944 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.80 |
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Title: Sears and Zemansky's University Physics 10th edition (Study Guide, Chapters 1-21) by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman ISBN: 0201618354 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $31.40 |
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Title: Sears and Zemansky's University Physics With Modern Physics (Addison-Wesley Series in Physics) by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, T. R. Sandin, A. Lewis Ford ISBN: 0201603365 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $146.00 |
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Title: Effective Technical Communication by Anne Eisenberg ISBN: 0070194319 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $56.25 |
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Title: Calculus (3rd Edition) by Monty J. Strauss, Gerald L. Bradley, Karl J. Smith ISBN: 0130918717 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 14 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $134.67 |
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