Study Guide Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Principles of Physics (Volume 2)

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Summary: the second worst textbook out there
Review: I have used several physics textbooks both as a high school and college student. This is one of the worst textbooks I have used however. It is very inconsistent. Some chapters are overly simple and progress too slowly. Others are short, difficult and lack sufficient examples and explanations. The book rarely explains the origins of a formula enough to get a good understanding of its use. Furthermore, there are frequent misprints throughout the text. Unfortunately, most of the people who purchase this book have no choice because it is required for a class.

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Summary: Not the Best Physics Textbook
Review: I have used several physics textbooks both as a high school and college student. This is one of the worst textbooks I have used however. It is very inconsistent. Some chapters are overly simple and progress too slowly. Others are short, difficult and lack sufficient examples and explanations. The book rarely explains the origins of a formula enough to get a good understanding of its use. Furthermore, there are frequent misprints throughout the text. Unfortunately, most of the people who purchase this book have no choice because it is required for a class.

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Summary: the second worst textbook out there
Review: the only thing that makes this book shine is that it isnt as incomplete as my professor's own personal book... its almost as if any teacher that requires these materials secretly wishes the students to fail miserably... written at the third grade level with plenty of, "Isn't physics nifty!" and no actualy help in the computational realm... for a class that is supposed to have advanced calculus as a prereq, the math is presented in an oversimplified matter making the only way to learn the material to struggle through the problems to discover something that could have been explained in place of one of the many cartoons that litter this exscuse for scholorly material...