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Schaum's Easy Outline: College Physics

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I don't own this book, but I browsed through it, and believe me that did not take long. This book is an embarrassment to the fine Schaum's Outline series. For one thing, the words "Easy Outline" and "College Physics" don't belong in the same book title. There are only six chapters in this book, and the book glosses over the meat of College Physics with the most simplistic of explanations and no examples to speak of. If you want to learn college physics buy the old reliable "Schaum's Outline of College Physics" now in its tenth edition. It has good explanations, meaty examples, and many solved as well as unsolved problems so you can really grasp the concepts of the first two semesters of college physics. What really confuses me is that two of the three authors of this book wrote the good Schaum's outline of College Physics as well as the excellent Schaum's Outline of Optics, so they DO know how to write meaningful study guides. Why they put their names on this disaster I'll never know. I would say that this particular book is not even good enough for high school students studying physics. Avoid it completely.

Graphics are poor. The smallish size coupled with poor contrast make this Kindle edition very difficult to read. This was not evident from the sample provided by Amazon. This technology needs much improvement, to include better contrast, improved resolution and an ability to zoom in on illustrations and pictures.

Well, I bought this book by mistake! I wanted the non easy version. Unless you want to pretend learn physics in two weeks you'd better buy the same authors and name book but non easy version! You can learn physics with that 416 pages one but not with this 138 one.