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Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Chapters 1-39

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This book is just plain awful. The chapter text and examples are woefully inadequate to prepare you for the end of chapter problems. These are REALLY HARD PROBLEMS. Now, I don't mind hard work and I also understand that learning this stuff isn't easy , but come on! I believe that the author could have much more effectively taught these concepts without throwing the students into the deep end right off the bat. I've lost a good deal of hair to this book...

I wish I could give this a negative star review... Skip this book if at all possible or hope you have a really good instructor.

I agree with other reviews, the book "Physics for Scientists and Engineers" is a LOUSY book at explaining concepts, not only that but also some fundamental algebra steps are missing (author thinks you already know the algebra steps).

Overral, is a good book, very organize, explains good how to derive the equations and formulas, and their exercises are very nice to work with, but not good at explaining the concepts and mathematical approach.

I'm a student at City College of New York (Mechanical Engineering), I found this book very good if you previously know the chapters before reading this book. So, in order to do that I read the "University Physics by Young and Freedman" ISBN# 0805391797. And believe me the average grade for Physics 207 was a 50 something; and I got a B grade also a friend of mine got an A grade with the hardest professor by reading the "University Physics" first, then the "Physics for Scientists and Engineers".

My remarks is, if you want to learn physics and you are an AVERAGE JOE like me, then read 2 books:

1st) "University Physics" by Young and Freedman ISBN# 0805391797 cost around [... is a bargain] in amazon(just read the concepts and do examples).

2nd) "Physics for Scientists and Engineers" by Serway (read the concepts again, do examples again, use their equations, and DO THEIR EXERCISES).

The horribleness of this book is exacerbated by its inflated price. The descriptions are cryptic and the problems are unclear. I have a suspicion that professors use this book to discourage students who aren't serious about engineering. Don't do the problems in this book, they will just leave you scratching your head and wanting to get out of engineering. If you can even solve the problem (some of them require unjustified assumptions, and I'm sure quite a few of them, as in previous editions, contain typos and diagrammatic errors that render them unsolvable).

Unfortunately I can't recommend another source for problems. I spent so much time on the problems in this book that I had no time to find other sources for more clear, cogent, and helpful problems.

This book doesn't even deserve one star! If I could rate it, you would have to go down to the planck length scale to see the fraction of the star that I would rate this book.

When you try to apply the content in the book to the problems in the book and the problems on the online learning system, you realize how pathetic the book is at preparing you to work the problems.

Q: What's worse?
A: When you professor doesn't even follow the book, burns an entire hour of lecture deriving equations on the
board without working any examples, and is so lazy that they assign an online homework system instead of
written homework.

This isn't a book for students.

This book is for sadistic show off professors and egotistical scientists that take pleasure in telling students how much they don't know instead of relating the material in the book to the problems in the book.

The authors have terrible skills at relating the material to the audience (college students). All the formulas are presented in derivations and proofs which is completely ridiculous as problems are deductions from generalizations. Sure, its necessary to have a formula, but there is not enough applications within the in chapter text to apply those formulas to the varieties of problems you are faced in the online homework system.

TERRIBLE!!!!!

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This is a pretty good book. I am a rising high school senior, studying for the physics C ap exam, trying to get a head start so i dont get screwed when school starts. i have to say, this book is actually pretty good for self-studying. if you read through examples and try to work them out before attempting problems then u will have a better time working out the challenge problems.

Book was received in exceptional condition, minus the original wrappings, it looked as though it had never even been opened. Shipping was fast and I would purchase from the seller again.

I like this book it is a good literature for physics. If you get this book I also fully recommend purchasing the answer booklet it is a tremendous help at showing how the problems are worked out from beginning to end.

Soooo... when I ordered this book it was listed as "new" and for a great price so I went ahead and ordered it. Upon receipt I found that the corners of the front and back cover were damaged/dog-earred as if the book had been lightly used. I wouldn't have minded this is the book was listed as "good" or "used" but it was listed as new. My main purpose in ordering a NEW book was to get the WebAssign subscription that comes with a new book so that I wouldn't have to pay for it separately. My book did NOT have the subscription so I ended up falling behind on homework assignments because I didn't have the money budgeted aside to pay for WebAssign separately. Had I bought a new book from the bookstore at my school it would have been in better condition and the subscription would have come with it.
I am truly upset with the order but at least I have a book to study from. As for the homework assignments, I am now doing every little bit o extra credit that I can to make up for it.

greatest condition I have ever had in Amazon. It came right on time and has the condition that I wanted. Thanks!