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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 530 EAN: 9780716789642 ISBN: 0716789647 Label: W. H. Freeman Manufacturer: W. H. Freeman Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1356 Publication Date: August 16, 2007 Publisher: W. H. Freeman Studio: W. H. Freeman Sales Rank: 39958 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Sixth Edition of Physics for Scientists and Engineers offers a completely integrated text and media solution that will help students learn most effectively and will enable professors to customize their classrooms so that they teach most efficiently. The text includes a new strategic problem-solving approach, an integrated Math Tutorial, and new tools to improve conceptual understanding. To simplify the review and use of the text, Physics for Scientists and Engineers is available in these versions: Volume 1 Mechanics/Oscillations and Waves/Thermodynamics (Chapters 1–20, R) 1-4292-0132-0 Volume 2 Electricity and Magnetism/Light (Chapters 21–33) 1-4292-0133-9 Volume 3 Elementary Modern Physics (Chapters 34–41) 1-4292-0134-7 Standard Version (Chapters 1-33, R) 1-4292-0124-X Extended Version (Chapters 1-41, R) 0-7167-8964-7 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This text has made my semester hell!The other reviews sum it all very nicely, this is a terrible physics text. Notice how heavily the number of one and two star reviews outweigh 3,4, and 5 star reviews. If you are a teacher, instructor, or professor, and use this text, you are a bad person. I just can't even express in words how bad everything is done. 80% of the time spent in this text is trying to figure out what went on in an EXAMPLE'S intermediate step. Rating: - Mistakes in 1st and 2nd PrintingsJust fyi, we are using this text in my college physics class and there are numerous errors in the first and second printings (i.e. in the problems, some of the "known" information is wrong). These problems do not appear to be in the third printing, however. So if you want a book that has workable problems with answers that make sense, make sure that your's is the 3rd printing. Rating:  - Learn by exampleThis book teaches by example but doesn't do a good job of explaining underlying concepts. If you memorize all the examples, you'll be able to do any problem you come across; as long as it's exactly like one of the examples. If you're looking to buy it, though, it's probably because you're required to have it for a class. Look for a used one that's been trashed for really cheap, you're not going to want to keep it anyway. Rating:  - Who needs a teacher when they've got this...?First off, this review is driven by pure gratitude to both authors of this excellent text. This is that Book on Physics that grips and drags you along. No prerequisite knowledge is even necessary as the book assumes you the reader is uneducated on the topics and takes you right from scratch to the very peak (literally). It all depends on the purpose which you desire it to serve. It is a great text for writing such exams as A-Levels, IBs, SAT e.t.c. but in its core, it is best ... Read More Rating:  - Better as a work book than a self-contained physics textIf you enjoy learning by working examples and having a problem solving strategy given to you in numerical steps you can pretty much imitate, this is the book for you. This book is a pretty good supplemental text. I find it to be between Sears and Zemansky's University Physics and Schaum's Outline of College Physics in its approach. It has some exposition, but don't expect a lot of information on derivations of equations. It is more about how you work physics problems, and most interestingly, why you ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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