Modern Technical Physics (6th Edition)

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Summary: Modern Technical Physics...A poor excuse for a physics book.
Review: Hmm...where do I start. This book is absolutely terrible. Just as one of the other reviewers of this text, I too was required to use this book in a college physics course. The book lacks in many aspects. The first problem is that this book is only black and white...there are no color illustrations--the use of color illustrations and pictures would be very helpful in illustrating and describing certain concepts. Also, the book is very lacking in example problems. The example problems shown in the book are nothing like the practice problems at the end of chapters. There are many cases in which a section of a chapter gives no example problems, yet at the end of the chapter there are practice problems for that particular section. Apparently Arthur Beiser doesn't realize that example problems are helpful and sometimes necessary to complete the end-of-chapter problems. All these factors, combined with the relatively high price, make this book an extremely bad choice for reference, or in my case, as a use as a collge physics text. If I could have given this book 0 stars I would have done so.

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Summary: BAD TEXTBOOK!`
Review: I am currently using this book for a college physics course and I am very dissapointed in it. There equations given are difficult to understand becuase few or no example problems are given to show how to use the equation. Also, the answers in the back of the book seldom correlate well with the information given in the chapter. Finally, no solutions manual is provided with the book. Since the chapters themselves are lacking you'd think they would at least provide a solutions manual to help explain, but no. These and many other reasons make this book a poor choice. Shop around and find another one.

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Summary: Excellent Physics Text
Review: Modern Technical Physics is suitable for a technical physics course such as Electrical Engineering Technology students might take. It is exceptionally well written and straightforward.