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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Although i havn't yet finished this book...im half way through it...it is a relativly easy to understand book...
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Summary: Excellent textbook in physics
Review: As a fourth year college student the price of the book, for its content, is outrageuos. There are no real explanations on how the problems are solved, or even how they were derived. It is like push the "I believe button". I borrowed their third edition( Physics Part2) from my college library and wondered why they ever changed it. The fourth edition is an extremely condensed version and is hard to follow. Though they cover a lot of required material this book is lacking if a student wishes to learn from the book without a professor's aid..
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Summary: Excellent reference book for introductory physics courses
Review: Being a freshmen of physics major in the first year of my university life, I engaged in three introductory physics courses, namely, mechanics, thermodynamics and optics, and electricity and magnetism. It was a surprise to me that all three courses recommended "Physics" by Resnick and Halliday as textbook. After one year of study, I found reading this book awarding and useful for my later and more in-depth studies. Although I didn't read the part on quantum physics and relativity, I'll give my comment on this book based on what I've read.
The book was written in an comprehensive way. No matter you 're a newcomer to physics or you already have some basis on general physics, the writers always give a careful and detailed desription on how they arrive at the results, and what assumptions they've made, so that you'll get a correct picture and understanding of the topic. Unlike some other textbooks, this book functions as a bridge for me to the more advanced physics courses, without much difficulties arised.
To improve the text, my idea is to introduce vector calculus in the E&M part, since it's essential for further studies on the topic.
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Summary: I love physics, chemistry, and electronics.
Review: I believe this love will create much joy, hope, and peace.
I will say only one thing.
The things you love turn to profit, eventually.
-Calvin Newman
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Summary: THE BOOK FOR PHYSICS
Review: I never bought the Halliday-Resnick book when I studied several Physics courses as an engineering undergraduate, but today, several years after graduation, I am considering buying it because of its immense value as a reference book (and my work doesn't have anything to do with Physics). I still remember all the other books quoted HR at some point. The weak point is, however, that for students who need step-by-step, spoonfed explanations, this is not the book, as it requires the reader to have a good level of Maths.
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Summary: The defintive textbook on the subject
Review: I used this text for my undergraduate freshman year physics course. This was a recommended text and pretty soon I found out why it was popular with students. I have come across few books with such clarity and depth as this one.The way the material was presented, and the way the ideas were pushed through as well as the pace was as if this book was written with someone like me in mind. An indispensable book for any physics student...
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Summary: A benchmark for physics exposition !
Review: one of the best-selling books in South Asia, these books are used for freshman physics in almost every engineering college in Indian sub-continent. Although much simpler is the Serway's book due to high quality paper and computer simulated exemplification; in countries like India where theory is highly emphasized, this book has stood the test of time ! I possess both parts even now and always prefer referring to it than serway. problems aren't that tough but Irodov's book will supplement it very well !
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Summary: simply excellent
Review: This textbook is excellent. It has an in-depth theory part, that explains everything!!! and it also has lots of challenging exercises and problems. I strongly recommend it for Engineering and Science undergraduates.
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