Fundamentals of Physics
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Manufacturer: Wiley
Written By: David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9780471228639
ISBN: 047122863X
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1128
Publication Date: 2002-04-19
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Reviews for Fundamentals of Physics
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No other text on the market today can match the success of Halliday, Resnick and Walker’s Fundamentals of Physics. This text continues to outperform the competition year after year, and the new edition will be no exception. Intended for Calculus-based Physics courses, the 6th edition of this extraordinary text is a major redesign of the best-selling 5th edition, which still maintains many of the elements that led to its enormous success. Jearl Walker adds his unique style to this edition with the addition of new problems designed to capture, and keep, students’ attention. Nearly all changes are based on suggestions from instructors and students using the 5th edition, from reviewer comments, and from research done on the process of learning. The primary goal of this text is to provide students with a solid understanding of fundamental physics concepts, and to help them apply this conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving. The principal goal of Halliday-Resnick-Walker is to provide instructors with a tool by which they can teach students how to effectively read scientific material and successfully reason through scientific questions. To sharpen this tool, the Enhanced Problems Version of the sixth edition of Fundamentals of Physics contains over 1000 new, high-quality problems that require thought and reasoning rather than simplistic plugging of data into formulas.
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Summary: Great
Comment: I ordered this book for a friend and had it sent to him. He was very pleased with it. Thanks
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Summary: Treatsie - WORTHLESS for learning
Comment: This remains one of the most worthless technical texts I've ever run into - going back to at least the Second Edition of 1981. As a stand-alone, the text provides a survey of basic concepts in mechanics, wave theory, thermodynamics and electrodynamics. The example problems are pathetic and reflect a dismissive attitude towards the average undergraduate student who needs to learn how to APPLY the various physical laws to solve problems. Unless you have an excellent instructor who supplements heavily with problem solving and application, the problems will be a struggle. However, with the ready availability of solutions manuals these days on the internet, the shortcomings of the text are probably less apparent than when I used it for 3 physics classes in the late 1980s.
The weakest sections by far are the ones covering thermodynamics. The mechanics sections are only moderately better - which ain't saying much. Bottomline - If you really want a thorough coverage of mechanics and thermo -- get ENGINEERING texts on these subjects. You WILL NOT be able to learn a thing about problem solving or how to even approach solving problems from this text. Lots of F=ma equations with simple body-force diagrams ... then BAM you're hit with applying to complex scenarios on your own. WORTHLESS
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Summary: This was a tough book to learn physics from
Comment: Everyone in my class hated this textbook, and as a result, the following year, the department changed to using "University Physics" 11th ed, Young&Freedman. This book isn't too bad for somebody who needs to review the material and refresh their memory, but learning it for the first time... this book made it tough.
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Summary: Wiley Publishing produces great indroductory physics book
Comment: What really makes this book great is the layout and format used. With clearly indexed chapters, main in-chapter headlins, practice problems, free interactive learning on the internet, and end of chapter synopsis, this book can explain physics to anyone interested. Physics is a science that needs to be understood correctly the first time. I really would have liked this book in high school. The end of chapter problems are very difficult, but they require you to really understand the material. the writing style used is similar to the times you read those great articles and say to yourself, "why can't everything be that clear." Great for physics majors, and good for other majors. 5 Stars
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Summary: GOOD BUT NOT FOR MODERN PHYSICS PARTS
Comment: I think Prof.Halliday had done a good job in the parts of mechanics,thermodynamics and electromagnetism.It helps us a lot to get the idea on classical physics and some question are really creative and quite challenging.However,it not very good for those who try to learn modern physics from this book,especialy the explanation of Schrodinger equation.Readers will find it confusing because Halliday just touch on it lightly without giving us a clear view of Quantum Mechanics.Especialy I don't like the Schrodinger equation form in this book.It seems that the author try to prevent the undergratuates scare about Mathematics.But we all know that the only language in Physics is Mathematics.So I suggest readers who want to learn the fundamentals idea of modern physics can try Young's University Physics.
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