Understanding Physics,   ISBN:9780471370994

Customer Rating: 

As a senior I took AP Physics, and this was the text the teacher used. Not the text I used. The information is there, but the writing is not interesting at all. Also, other texts, such as Physics for Scientists and Engineers or Fundamentals of Physics, present more complete information than found in this book.
Practice problems in this book are also very week. In particular, problems difficulty is not given, so someone who wants to practice physics really has to look for a problem that matches the level of challenge they want in a problem.
If you must use this book, there isn't much choice. But if you can, find another text.

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As a thrifty college student, I'm inclined to finding my books for the lowest price online and while I don't expect them to be new or anywhere close to perfect, a decent enough condition is expected especially when the book's status is "good". However, I found it a little disappointing when I opened my package to find my "good" book missing parts of the binding and that is was being held together with tape. While still functional for class and homework, an extra $5 might have been worth the peace of mind that it won't fall apart at any second.

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I have bought this item because the book does not have all the answers of the question. Everybody who studied physics know that a physics`s student needs to do a lot of exercises to understand and know what he did. I bought this solution manual thinking that it will have all or the majority of answers and explanation to those practice exercises, but first, the book was very expensive and then does not have the majority of answers, specially the even or even numbers of the exercises. I will like that the next time people who buy this product could know the real content and a good or significant rebate to the price of it.

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This student solutions manual do not have the complete answers for all the problems in the text book. I bought it because I thought it had all the solutions to the problems that the text book did not had (even ones). It really just explain how to do five or seven problems in each chapter; some of the ones that have the solution in the text book.

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I bought the book thinking it would provide answers to most of the problems in the back of the book. I was dissapointed that it only picks roughly 10 to 15 questions per chapter. The textbook usually has about 60 t0 70 problems of homework problems. This makes the book extremley useless except for the few problems it contains. I was only able to use one answer from this book for my homework.

For its credit the example was well explained and worked out. The others seemed to be of the same quality.