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Holy Crap...

By Zack - October 20, 2010

This book is just plain awful. The chapter text and examples are woefully inadequate to prepare you for the end of chapter problems. These are REALLY HARD PROBLEMS. Now, I don't mind hard work and I also understand that learning this stuff isn't easy , but come on! I believe that the author could have much more effectively taught these concepts without throwing the students into the deep end right off the bat. I've lost a good deal of hair to this book...

I wish I could give this a negative star review... Skip this book if at all possible or hope you have a really good instructor.

Book is written for physicists BUT NOT FOR AVERAGE JOES

By D.F. - December 22, 2009

I agree with other reviews, the book "Physics for Scientists and Engineers" is a LOUSY book at explaining concepts, not only that but also some fundamental algebra steps are missing (author thinks you already know the algebra steps).

Overral, is a good book, very organize, explains good how to derive the equations and formulas, and their exercises are very nice to work with, but not good at explaining the concepts and mathematical approach.

I'm a student at City College of New York (Mechanical Engineering), I found this book very good if you previously know the chapters before reading this book. So, in order to do that I read the "University Physics by Young and Freedman" ISBN# 0805391797. And believe me the average grade for Physics 207 was a 50 something; and I got a B grade also a friend of mine got an A grade with the hardest professor by reading the "University Physics" first, then the "Physics for Scientists and Engineers".

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Terrible Book

By C. Eggert - November 30, 2010

The horribleness of this book is exacerbated by its inflated price. The descriptions are cryptic and the problems are unclear. I have a suspicion that professors use this book to discourage students who aren't serious about engineering. Don't do the problems in this book, they will just leave you scratching your head and wanting to get out of engineering. If you can even solve the problem (some of them require unjustified assumptions, and I'm sure quite a few of them, as in previous editions, contain typos and diagrammatic errors that render them unsolvable).

Unfortunately I can't recommend another source for problems. I spent so much time on the problems in this book that I had no time to find other sources for more clear, cogent, and helpful problems.

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