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Summary: Highly Recommended!
Review: I am shocked to see such lousy responses to this book. I have been using this book for two semesters in college and have had nothing but success with it. I have over 15 physics books and the most thorough and complete one is the Ohanian one. The strategy of this book is to teach physics with a calculus approach instead of a simplified version for the weak. Classical physics was developed by Newton, and he developed it using calculus, so this is the way to go if the serious student wants to learn and really understand classical physics. Also, I have encountered very few errors in this book, so if your solution doesn't agree with Ohanian's, it may be due to a mistake on your part.
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Summary: simply the best
Review: If you want to learn basic physics including motivations for advanced concepts, this book is the one. If you gonna study physics just to get a good grade and indeed not interested in beauty of physics (in freshmen level), don't buy this book; you can try "Fundamentals of Physics".
If you think the number of examples are not enough in Ohanian's book, bookstores are full of ordinary freshmen physics books icluding solved problems with colorful "drawings" and "pictures". Maybe it is the best to read Ohanian's book "very carefully" and "very detailed" and follow a second book to see more solved examples.
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Summary: Very Recommended
Review: This book is great. It's a little challenging, but it's not because of the book, but the subject. P.S. A physics book cannot be outdated.
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