College Physics
While physics can seem challenging, its true quality is the sheer simplicity of fundamental physical theories–theories and concepts that can enrich your view of the world around you. COLLEGE PHYSICS, 8e, provides a clear strategy for connecting those theories to a consistent problem-solving approach, carefully reinforcing this methodology throughout the text and connecting it to real-world examples. For students planning to take the MCAT exam, the text includes exclusive test p…
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January 23rd, 2010 at 3:14 am
This is a college physics text book. It has a wealth of information and realistic problems and examples that are useful. Unlike many similar texts the support materials and answers in the back are actually correct. In addition I have found it to be one of the few texts at this level that are actually somewhat readable. Walking the fine line between too much information and trivia and not enough content this is a good text.
January 23rd, 2010 at 5:28 am
This book gets bad rap and as much as i thought i’d be here righting a bad review, I find myself agreeing with Mr Nevin’s review. This book is actually good.
So anyway, glancing through this book without reading will scare you because everything will look like greek. Read it and it is the best thing. i don’t even read everything, mostly the parts where it introduces formulas and i work along the examples. If you’re having problems with the examples, because i feel like the author has it broken down to the last bit, then you need an pre-algebra refresher. I got introductory physics as a second language to help me break down this book and to be honest, this book helped me break down the mechanics chapter in the physics as a second language book. I know i read one of the reviews here on amazon where the author wrote that parts of the book has been rewritten so my review only applies to the 8th edition only and not previous editon.
First of all, concepts are very well explained,i take physics online and show up to lecture sometimes to sit in and i primarily study from this book because my instructor moves so fast i don’t know what he’s doing on the board. Each concept is followed by a worked example, a quick quiz and a question as well as a do it yourself example that’s similar to the worked example. The book has tons of examples, i mean worked examples in the book and other examples that require you to do the work and compare your answer to the answer provided. The best part, ALL the answers so far, i’m on chapter 14, are right! No errata, yet. I took a physics course back 2004 that the college dropped and i remember looking at that textbook and not knowing what the author was talking about. This one makes you get the basics. Physics isn’t my favorite subject so i’m the type who just needs to know the basics to rock my exam. If you’re passionate about physics, you’ll love how the author has those little boxes that relate stuff to real life. if you’re like me who needs just the basics to get through the MCAT, this book will be perfect. it has a little MCAT study in it that points you to which parts of the chapter and questions to focus on. I found the MCAT study guide very HELPFUL. Turns out, you don’t need to know a lot of stuff.
Granted, there are few times i look at an example and go where did he get this (in those cases, i had to look again more closely till i figured out what the author did. I think there is one problem in chapter 12 that i don’t know how the author got to one step) but overall, it’s a good physics book. I just completed physics 1 and i don’t think i coulda had a better textbook. if you need a physics book you can self study out of, this is it. Know your trig and algebra, basically log function.