Physics for Scientists and Engineers With Modern Physics (Saunders Golden Sunburst Series)

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Summary: Absolutely the best
Review: I am currently taking the first of a 2-semester course in cal.-based physics, and this book, by all means, is just great. It is concisely written, provides plenty of detailed examples covering all different types of problems, and has many nice illustrations. You really just have to see it for yourself to see just how complete it is. By far, this is the best academic cal-based physics book out there today.

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Summary: Frustrating Book
Review: I have been using this text book for the past year for three required college physics classes. The example problems are easy to understand and follow. Various pictures and illustations throughout the book are very helpful. Overall this a great book that covers everything; including motion, heat, optics, electricity, magnetism, waves, thermodynamics, and modern physics.

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Summary: What is the problem?
Review: im taking physics 2 now. took 1 last semester. used serway for both classes. its absolutely horrible. they go over in the text 1/10 of the stuff they ask you questions about at the end of each chapter. there are virtually NO significant worked out problems (they leave that to you to do) and sometimes they leave entire equations out because of printing mistakes. its absolutely horrible...

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Summary: Good book, longer wait than others..
Review: The book was in excellent condition for a used book, although it took 2 weeks for the book to arrive. All-in-all I would buy from this guy again.

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Summary: Hmmmm, sounds suspiciously like the publisher's cronies.
Review: The preceding reviews are suspect; I've yet to encounter a student who waxed rhapsodic about a physics textbook in such a general way. The book is, at best, mediocre. The one thing I detest is a textbook that places the emphasis on "Discovery Learning" in its problem sets. The introduction claims that knowledge of calculus is not essential, and yet in one of the earlier chapters I encountered a problem that required an understanding of Calculus II and the separation of variables technique to solve a first order, linear differential equation. There are many instances in the problem sets in which you are left wondering who is at fault: my brain, or the text? The problem with the educational system: we are all obliged to sit through this nonsense because it is a stepping-stone to something else, and few of us taking Physics will actually go on to make it their discipline. I prefer my Physics, or any non-core subject for that matter, to be spoon-fed. This book doesn't spoon feed anything but frustration.

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Summary: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Vol. II, 5th Ed.
Review: The service was excellent, she had the book shipped out within 2 days, and I received the book in 4 business days!

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Summary: Frustrating Book
Review: This is my first experience with this author/book and I am not impressed. I have used other physics books in the past that were far better than this one. There are not too many worked out example problems and the level of understanding in the book is set pretty high.

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Summary: The BEST Introductory Physics Book EVER
Review: To be honest, I didn't even need to buy this book, but I did it anyway. Having worked with Serway's Texts before, I new this was going to be an exellent book. This text contains hundreds of illustrations to help a student of physics grasp the underlying concepts. The book also has many diversified problems to help the student obtain the tools needed to be successful in physics. I would recommend this book to anybody, even those not interested in physics, because by the time your through with this book, you'll be interested alright.

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Summary: The BEST Introductory Physics Book EVER
Review: To be honest, I didn't even need to buy this book, but I did it anyway. Having worked with Serway's Texts before, I new this was going to be an exellent book. This text contains hundreds of illustrations to help a student of physics grasp the underlying concepts. The book also has many diversified problems to help the student obtain the tools needed to be successful in physics. I would recommend this book to anybody, even those not interested in physics, because by the time your through with this book, you'll be interested alright.

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Summary: Un libro facil de entender, para estudiantes de ingenieria
Review: yo he utilizado el tomo 1 y 2 y me parecen muy facil de entender tiene buenos ejemplos, pero tambien recomiendo que poseean otro libro a la hora de estudiar porque hay cosas que el serway no menciona y otros libros si.