Holt Physics [Hardcover]

Raymond A. Serway (Author), Jerry S. Faughn (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston; Tch edition (June 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0030565464
• ISBN-13: 978-0030565465
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 9.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,026,764 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Physics book!, August 7, 2001

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Michael Nelson (Fairfield, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Holt Physics (Hardcover)

This was the text book used in my honors physics class. Though it may not go into extremely advanced issues, it does touch on A LOT of material, including basic collisions, fluids, rotational motion, relativity (a bit), and even some quantum mechanics. This book is definitely useful to anyone who wants a better education in basic physics and a start into somewhat beginner's advanced physics.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Review by High School Physics Teacher, March 20, 2010

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Sam (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Holt Physics (Hardcover)

I'd consider this a typical high school physics text, with the usual positives and negatives. IMHO there are better h.s. texts out there. Having said that, here's what I found:

The presentations and explanations in the text are pretty decent. However, this may not be that important, because many teachers give lectures or handouts, and are well aware of the fact that most students will do whatever they can to avoid reading the text. The main difficulty I ran into using the book was the lack of mid-level difficulty "practice problems". Colleagues in other schools have stated the same. In this text, problems tend to jump from a "basic" level to the "difficult" level. As a result, I put together handouts of mid-level problems for students to practice, so that they could master the material and achieve a level of confidence, before tackling the more difficult problems.

Another complaint I have is that this newer edition does not seem to be much different from the older (and cheaper) one. Sections that had appeared in the Appendix have been switched with sections in the main part of the text and vice versa, end-of-chapter problems were jumbled and renumbered, and a few problems changed. A new cover is given, and parents are then stuck purchasing a new textbook. My advice about whether to purchase the newer or older edition is this: If your teacher assigns reading by page, and HW problems from the book, then you need the newer one; if your teacher gives handouts for problems and assigns reading by topic, -- you can probably get away with the older version.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Confusing, February 27, 2009

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Orion Rooney - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holt Physics (Hardcover)

I am currently using this book at my high school. It is not a good textbook. It's disorganized, and hard to understand. On top of that, it gives examples to teach problems, then gives problems that are nothing like the examples.