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Summary: More of a Reference than an Instructional Text
Review: This book reads like a beginner's CRC Handbook. Concepts are only briefly explained with some derivation of equations and definition of the variables. Examples are useless for students that need to see an actual calculation to do problems since most read like mathematical proofs. Yes, the problems are good.....but they'd be better if the text supported their difficuly, in which a good 90% dive into concepts that students have not encountered in the reading. Lectures are short and most are taught by individuals that could care less about intro physics students, so the student must learn a bulk of the course outside of the classroom. This can't be done with this empty, pompus, overly technical book.
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Summary: A must for engineers..
Review: This is an all-time classic for sudents of physics and engineering. The exposition of the basic principles of dynamics is clear, direct and assisted by various exercises. The latter are many and most of the time related to realistic (though simplified) engineering situations. The treatments of collisions and of dynamics of rotation are very good; the subject is easy to grasp from the diagrams most of the time. I recomend this book to all students of natural sciences and engineering.
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Summary: Excellent Undergrad Text
Review: I used this book for 3 quarters of introductory physics. The book is well written, there are plenty of examples, and the actual written sections are as helpful as the examples (a true rarity in textbooks). This book is used for introductory physics courses at both Ohio University and Ohio State University. Ohio U has a network called CAPA which takes problems from this text, changes the numbers pseudo-randomly for each student, and checks their answers as they enter them over the web. The book's versitality allows for such a system to be effective. The book is written and designed for larger classes which contain future engineers, chemists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and pre-med students. It has the ability to be used as a weed-out text or as an actual learning tool (at the discretion of the university). All in all a satisfactory text. (By the way, these three guys did a similar book with Krane which is very good as well).
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Summary: Good examples to explain the concepts
Review: I used this book for my general physics course in USA. Since my native language is not English, I had to spend a lot of time to read through this book. But, compared to other textbooks, this book makes it easy to read even for a student like me who has language problem. The reason is that this book explains the concepts in clear manner and gives us further understanding by the immediate sample problems. I found this very refreshing. I can immediately check my understanding and never get bored in this way. I know other books that just explain the concepts for pages and pages...until I forget what I started with and fall asleep. Their end chapter problems are very good. many of them are interesting to solve.
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Summary: Is this really so?
Review: I am a teacher, and many years ago used the First Edition of this text. There are many new things, many improvements. However I have a problem with their novel derivation of transverse traveling waves on a string, page 408. The text states that Elastic Potential Energy is associated with a change in length of elements of the string, just as for a spring. Presumably this increases the tension, and decreases the linear density from point to point along the string. Therefore the phase velocity, or wave speed, should vary along the string. Traditionally phase velocity is constant on a given string! The text further states Elastic Potential Energy is zero at maximum displacement, and maximum at zero displacement. It emphasizes that both KE and PE have their maximum values at zero displacement. This is hard to square with the explanation that the transverse motion of each particle is said to be in Simple Harmonic Motion.... By and large, the book is very good, as a Calculus-level introductory text. The selection of problems is excellent. It seems that the junior author ( and perhaps the editors as well) may have nodded a bit in just one section.
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Summary: Clear and Thoughtful
Review: This book covers all of basic physics very well. The prose is clear and the problem sets incredibly thorough. Problems vary from being a simple extension to what is described in the chapter to some extremely challenging problems that require some original thinking. Not an easy read at all points but completely worth it
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Summary: a good book isnt enough
Review: i used this book for my physics course in college, and i found if really good, the examples are clearly written, but this is nothing if you try to learn just from the book, I always read it after my physics class and it was enough to achieve a good mark.
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Summary: Frustration.....
Review: After using this textbook for a whole year, I felt like I am emotionally drained. Well, if you plan to stay up late and cram for your finals, put this book on your bed. You would never want to walk close to it again!
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Summary: Probably somewhat too complicated for an intro book
Review: Following this text can be quite difficult for one who has a weak command of mathematics or of basis physics principles. The examples are quite interesting, unlike many other textbooks. I must admit that most physics texts for scientists are more complicated than this. When the material is reexplained in a clear manner, the book makes perfect sense. I think that frustration with this book is due highly in part to those who took physics not realizing how challenging it can be, especially for those who do not understand such concepts easily. As for simply skipping lectures and trying to understand physics by reading the book, this is likely to be a complete failure; I don't know if any physics book could appropriately explain physics in an understandable manner without supplement. The problems, however, in the text are excellent, and while sometimes challenging, they are essential for a student to be able to solve problems on exams.
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Summary: This book like fool me around!
Review: If u know that ur college uses this book for teaching Physics, then take it in other where! Because u must be regret if u take physics with this book!
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