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Title: Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Fundamentals of Physics 6th Edition, Includes Extended Chapters by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker ISBN: 0-471-36034-1 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 27 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (53 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A confusing textbook
Comment: This textbook was very hard to understand. The authors discuss the material in such a way that unless you spend all your time reading their book, you won't ever get it. I spent way too much time over a full academic year trying to figure out what the book meant. And when I worked the problems, I often times didn't understand the material well enough to even begin to know how to approach them. The problems in this book are usually set up so that you have to derive your own equations *based on* the equations the authors discuss. The authors take a very loopy, confusing approach to thermodynamics (I had to try to forget a lot of the stuff I learned from this book when I took Physical Chemistry courses). Further, the chapters on thermo are not nearly complete enough, and the analogies used are usually bad. This book covers all the basic topics, like any other standard physics text, but the level of discussion is just slightly too advanced for the John Doe taking a General Calculus-based Physics class, whose only background is high school physics.
Look into some other textbooks...I hear Serway's book is
good.
Rating: 1
Summary: is this a money-making gimmick or what?
Comment: Our physics department decided to switch to this book last year, and I have been trying to figure out which edition to buy.. "extended enhanced problem edition", "extended", "enhanced"? How about throwing in a student's companion text that contains "chapter extensions?"? What about getting the right Solutions manual? only 30% of the solutions are in it? And now I just found out they have published (another?) new 7th edition which no doubt will have a brand new array of essential supplements and extensions. Why all these editions and supplements?
Rating: 3
Summary: Average text, but costs too much
Comment: This is an average text, which means there are things about this book that are both good and bad. Let me begin with the good. "Fundamentals" is a fairly rigorous text. There are many topics contained in this book and each topic is covered in adequate depth and there are a large number and variety of problems to solve for each topic. Also, like any good calc-based physics text should, it introduces vectors early and sticks with the use of vectors and vector components throughout the text.
There are, however, some bad aspects to this book. The biggest problem with this text (and most others) is it's terse treatment of inertial reference frames. A more indepth examination of reference frames would probably reduce student frustration later on when solving problems.
My other big gripe with this book is its outrageous cost. $140 is just too much for a text. My suggestion is this, if you're enrolled in a physics course that requires this text, just check out an intro physics book from your library if you can. If you're autodidactic, look into Dover Thrift books. You can get a physics text there with all the same material for about 1/7th the cost of "Fundamentals".
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Title: Fundamentals of Physics, , Problem Supplement No. 1 by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker ISBN: 0471360317 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 26 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: A Student's Companion to Accompany Fundamentals of Physics 6th Edition, Includes Extended Chapters by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker ISBN: 0471360422 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 11 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Physics by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker ISBN: 047122863X Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 19 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $137.95 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Physics, Extended, Chapters 1 - 45 , Enhanced Problems Version by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker ISBN: 0471228621 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 19 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $137.95 |
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Title: Calculus (with CD-ROM) by James Stewart ISBN: 053439339X Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 20 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $135.95 |
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