Customer Reviews

College Physics, Volume 2

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I had the misfortune to teach out of this book for one semester when I was first hired at my present job. I soon decided I would rather have needles stuck in my eyeballs than use it for a second semester. The big problem is the lack of explanation of _concepts_. Many chapters begin with an equation, without explaining what it means or where it might have come from. Many of the other textbooks available share these flaws to some extent, but this is the worst of a bad lot.

I had this book for my physics class.. it is so random. The questions in the back of the chapters vary so much from the examples done within each chapter that I had a hard time answering the questions. I just ignore the book and listen to the teacher now.

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.

Do not waste your money on this textbook! Even the most basic concepts are poorly explained. Examples are random and rarely help to reinforce the lesson. You can find a much better physics book for a fraction of the price. I can't believe they published this book!!

I used this book for my physics class and I totally hate it. We will be using it again for next semester and I wish they would use a different one. If you are a teacher, please save your studernts from the headache! pick a better book!

I don't think this book explains concepts very well and it's even worse at teaching how to build on them. Some of the questions at the end of the chapter are very complex but, for people whose last supporting math class was years ago, the chapter often lacks thoroughly worked up examples to help figure out how to build the equation.

In the questions at the end of each chapter there are several problems that have on line coaching at the PHYSICS NOW web site, indicated by the PHYSICS NOW icon. Very often the problems that are indicated in the book are not the ones coached on line.

Volume 2 is published as a separate book but it is really the second half of volume 1. Many of the concepts in volume 2 are dependent on concepts, equations and other data presented in volume 1, but the book lacks an index containing this important information for those who took the first semester long enough ago to have sold the book. DO NOT BUY VOLUME 2 UNLESS YOU HAVE ACCESS TO A FIRST SEMESTER BOOK.

I didn't think this book was all that great at explaining the concepts but I don't really have anything to compare it to. And like all textbooks, it's rediculously overpriced. I can't believe people are getting away with charging these exorbitant prices to poor starving students who have enough trouble as it is paying for college and everything else.

The book is good when it comes to explaining the math parts of physics, but not so good at the conceptual bits. I bought another conceptual physics book to compliment this one. Overall, not a great book.

Some things in the text are hard to understand (yes i know its physics). They have a book that is both volumes and that is the one I would suggest. This book will get you through it, wish it had more example problems.

The physics book I bought was great. I recieved it before the estimated arrival date, which was also before classes started. Also the binding and pages were in mint condition.