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| Enhanced College Physics (with PhysicsNOW)
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Edition: 7
Author: Raymond A. Serway, Jerry S. Faughn, Chris Vuille
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Release Date: 2006-03-14
ISBN-10: 0495113697
ISBN-13: 9780495113690
List Price: $200.95
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Open the door to the fascinating world of physics! The most fundamental of all natural sciences, physics will reveal to you the basic principles of the Universe. And while physics can seem challenging, its true beauty lies in the sheer simplicity of fundamental physical theories--theories and concepts that can enrich your view of the world around you. ENHANCED COLLEGE PHYSICS, VOLUME I gives you a clear and logical presentation of the basic concepts, and with its integrated media resources, you have the maximum opportunity for success! Each new text includes access to PHYSICSNOW, the ultimate web-based homework and tutorial system! This interactive learning system tailors itself to your needs in the course. It's like having a personal tutor available whenever you need it!
A good source of practice problems
| Customer Rating: | | I think this book is fairly good if your looking for practice problems to work through. It starts out with pretty easy ones and then gives you progressively harder ones towards the end. There are plenty of step by step examples of how to solve the problems using the formulas throughout the chapter and they give derivations for almost all the equations. Yet it is called "Collage Physics" for a reason. It is not a beginner's book, yet it is also not so complicated that you will be lost for hours on end. |
You'd better have a good teacher or a good science background.
| Customer Rating: | | The title is not kidding when it calls itself "College" physics. Anyone using this textbook needs to be familiar with algebra and geometry as well. This book will not hold your hand and walk you through the basics of physics. It throws you in, head-first, and it's up to you to sink or swim. |
Still a good, sound text for college general physics...
| Customer Rating: | Updaated: Fall 2008. Still using this text. Still no complaints, verbal or otherwise, from students. Will continue using it for another year. Gave it five stars, because of the other review here about amazons slow delivery. Didn't order mine from amazon, so I can't comment about that, just the quality of the text. We'll be using this text again next year, if it remains available. Separate volumes also still available, apparently here, although no longer from the publisher.
Updated: Fall 2007. Still using this text. The new enhanced version is better. More mediacal and biological examples. Still no complaints, verbal or otherwise, from students.
Updated: Fall 2006. I've been teaching from this text (ed 7) for two years now. Still no complaints from students on my reviews, nor any verbal complaints, about this text. We are changing to the "enhanced" version next year since this version is no longer available from the publisher. The enhanced edition has more MCAT and biological applications, so we're looking forward to it. (One thing I've done is rewrite the PowerPoints to support this text and put them online locally, as well as other support materials.)
Previous Post: We changed from the Cutnell text. We use it in a two (2) semester (15 weeks each) course in "general physics." The text is much better than many of the reviewers suggest. It is a college level text - which means you should have some previous experience with physics (high school or fundamental ?) and you must have the math background - trigonometry and college algebra (through exponentials, logarithms and analytic geometry). The topics are presented and organized well, and the examples and problems complement the content. The conceptual questions are, for the most part, easy and very direct. While some problems are difficult, (most color coded blue and red), others play from the numerous, contemporary and historical examples. Photos and diagrams are well done with portraits of historical figures included. There are many biological applications and each chapter ends with a summary of equations, units and important concepts. The modern physics chapters are particularly interesting - relativity, atomic and nuclear physics. (If too much time is spent in the early chapters, you'll miss this in the last five.) No complaints about the text, like some mentioned here, were received from students on my reviews. (About half my students did ask frequent questions about solving problems in my discussion sessions, as expected, but about half required little or no help at all.)
Many of the negative reviews here apparently come from some who may not have the math background for this text. Many are "one title" reviewers who may have not read other similar texts in detail like those by Gimabattista, Walker, Cutnell, Sears and Haliday and Resnick. It's interesting that most of these texts have an average rating only between 2.5 and 3.5 stars out of 5. What this may show is that some reviewers just don't have the math backround for physics and so unfortunately try to rely on "concepts." This is not a "conceptual physics" text - it applies algebra and trionometry to problem solving in physics as it relates also to other sciences. One reason why a course in physics is required for most science majors.
I've also logged into the supporting web site as a student to check the claims made by some that "personal information" is apparently required to use the "free" site. The only "personal information" requests I saw were for name, email address and an answer to a security question selected from a list of options, to use in case you loose your password. These are typical questions asked for creating and maintaining user accounts on many such similar websites.
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Still Waiting
| Customer Rating: | I still have not received my book and it has already been 4 weeks.
I also don't have a tracking number so I cannot even go to the post office to locate the book.
I am very disappointed. |
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