Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: College Physics by Raymond A. Serway, Jerry S. Faughn, Clement J. Moses ISBN: 0-03-035114-6 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 Format: Spiral-bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $123.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.57 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book - But Only a Gateway to the Field
Comment: I will keep my review short and pointed.
It is difficult for people to design books for students. I was a professor so I know the subject and sometimes it is a challenge to prepare and transfer the information in an easy way to the student. That is the challenge.
About the book. It is an excellent book, with lots of information and covers all the basic topics of interest. If you can absorb everything in this book you will have a solid physics foundation of knowledge. It is a modern book and tries to relate physics concepts to the real world and modern laboratory so there is lots of extra information and tables, conversions, units, etc. Lots of formulas and a good cross reference index and it is all clear to myself.
As a student you will never learn from just the book. You must read the book, but it is absolutely critical that you do every problem that you can find from assignments, to what is available in this book, to other books. Problems, problems, problems. Then you will absorb all that is in the book. The field is not intuitively obvious and there is no shortcut to study and problem solving.
Rating: 1
Summary: less than one star... but since there's no zero
Comment: This is one of the poorest books I've ever used for learning any subject. This is simply NOT GOING TO WORK if you learn by reading/studying, rather than in class.
I already have a college degree, and I've read thousands of books, and studied from many. Rarely have I found a book this thick that has so little
1) EXPLANATION OF CORE CONCEPTS,
or
2) THOROUGHLY WORKED EXAMPLES OF PROBLEMS.
There is a lot of verbiage but that is all.
DO NOT WASTE TIME WITH THIS BOOK. Without a GOOD teacher, this book is beyond totally useless. With a teacher one can use this book for homework problems, but nothing more.
Since I am doing this as a pre-requisite for medical school, I am using the web and a number of other texts instead. I wish I could find a good thorough text though.
Rating: 2
Summary: Many better choices
Comment: My daughter is taking high school AP physics with this book. As a former teaching assistant in physics (grad school), this book is terrible in that the chapters give little insight to the information needed to work the problems. Without significant, and excellent, supplement by the teacher this book should not be used.
 |
Title: Practice Problems With Solutions to Accompany College Physics by Raymond A. Serway, Jerry S. Faughn ISBN: 0030224888 Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
 |
Title: College Physics: Student Solutions Manual and Study Guide by John R. Gordon, Charles Teague, Raymond A. Serway ISBN: 0030348110 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
 |
Title: College Physics Study Guide, 5e by John R. Gordon, Charles Teague, Raymond A. Serway, Faughn ISBN: 0030224845 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
 |
Title: The Physics Toolbox: A Survival Guide for Introductory Physics by Kirsten A. Hubbard, Debora M. Katz ISBN: 0030346525 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: 13 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
 |
Title: Organic Chemistry (5th Edition) by Leroy G. Wade ISBN: 013033832X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $139.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
