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Schaum's Outline of Modern Physics

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This book is for those who for some reason find text books a little abstract and find themselves into trouble because of this. But with this books in your hands you can be sure that you'll have a second source where to look. It's well organized, and the sample exercises are really great and will help you all along. It starts with basic Galilean transformations, wave mechanics, relativity and a glimpse to quantum mechanics. If you're a student and feel the need for another source of information other than your text books, look no further, this outline is the best out there.

As a college student taking Modern Physics, I found this book to be very helpful with my homework. Many of the subjects covered in my course were found to also be in the Schaum's Outline of Modern Physics. What it does severely lack in is explanation. For me, I skipped using it to learn anything, and just focused on following the example problems step-by-step (with different numbers, of course!) For the average student looking for a little help, I'd definitely suggest this book!

Unlike other reviewers, I found that this book hits all of the main points that you are likely to run across in an undergraduate course on Modern Physics. I particularly liked the short explanations on the various subtopics, the numerous and clear diagrams, as well as the helpful examples.

The other reviewers are correct in that this book takes a different approach from most textbooks on Modern Physics, but I feel that this is most helpful to engineering students. This is because the modern physics textbooks I have examined tend to be abstract and, quite frankly, geared towards and - of course - written by physicists. Engineers need a more practical and visual problem-oriented viewpoint to understand the subject matter than is provided in such books. The content of this outline does tend to jump around a great deal, and you may need to search carefully for the subject matter you are needing help with, but most of it should be in this outline somewhere. The book does come up a little short on the quantum end of things, and if you need specific help with that subject I recommend the "Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics", which is also quite helpful.

If you are a student of pure physics, you might not find this outline as helpful as the engineering students probably will.

Much like the rest of the Outline series, this book is great. It covers pretty much all the important topics in pretty good detail. It starts off fairly gently but the problems (worked and otherwise) are good and challenging (for me at least). This book would be great companion to any undergraduate modern physics course.

I am working through the book from beginning to end, so far I have found one mistake in a solved problem per chapter (the chapters are only a few pages long with roughly 10 to 12 questions for each section). I'm a big fan of Schaum's outlines, but this one seems to be lacking in good problems and careful editing. The answers are correct, they just have typos in the solved problems. I still like the book, but be ready to get frustrated once in a while when that isn't really a negative sign and you waste a bunch of time.

I'm a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with minors in Physics and Mathematics. I've chosen this book to supplement a textbook on Modern Physics which I studied in the 1960s. I browsed the outline and it looks excellent. It contains certain recent topics not included in my earlier text.
Regards, Donald W. Seaton

I'm very pleased with the book and the promptness of delivery. I would definitely buy from this seller again!

The delivery was outstanding, and the quality of the book was excellent.

This didn't fit in with the book we were using: "Modern Physics" by Tipler and Llewellyn. This book completely neglected much of the quantum portion. Be sure to buy that book also. Kind of elementary.