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Title: University Physics by Hugh D. Young, Francis Weston Sears ISBN: 0-201-52981-5 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $63.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The perfect book for a general course
Comment: I've used both this book and Halliday's Extended 6th edition for my course on Physics. My conclusion, chapter after chapter, has been clear to me: this is the perfect book for a general course on Physics at university level. The language is simple to understand (Halliday too), the figures and tables are well done and useful (Halliday too), the content is thorough (Halliday: not so much !). Yes, this last is the striking thing: it's thorough and reaches a level of detail that is not a common feature for these kind of Physics books.
The problems set is well balanced both in content and number (an average of 85-90 for each chapter), and as usual odd-numbered problems' solutions are provided.
I've tried this book without anybody advising it to me, now I'm happy I've had it for the exam.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Text
Comment: I used this text as an undergraduate, and had the good fortune to be taught by the author Hugh Young.
The material is well-written, encyclopedic, and well organized. The problem sets are thorough, challenging, and instructive.
This is THE physics book to buy if one is starting to study the field.
Rating: 1
Summary: Confusing - I don't like this book
Comment: I'm using this book for my first college physics course. I find the text very dry and boring, and the problems at the end of each chapter are confusing and not well explained. For example, I'm doing my homework and one of the problems is "speculate on how gaseous diffusion works." Just that, does not explain what gaseous diffusion is. As with many of the problems in this book, the first thing that comes into my mind is "what the hell are you talking about??" Another question asks me to compare the length of something to "the diameter of a molecule." Huh? What molecule? Are all molecules the same diameter? And how the heck am I supposed to know what that diameter is? Gah. I do not recommend this book unless you like being confused.
Also, the discussion questions at the end of each chapter are very nice, but the answers are not provided anywhere. So how are you supposed to know if you answered them correctly? And another thing I really hate about this book, it will say "and why do you think this happens?" and then not tell you why. About 90% of the time my answer is "I have no clue why that happened." :/ This book makes me hate physics.
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