Book Description
Comprehensive problems for topics covered by Physics I to IV, including statics, dynamics, heat, electricity and magnetism, wave motion, acoustics, optics, and atomic and nuclear physics. Numerous pictorial diagrams are included with complete illustrative explanations. Problem-solving strategies are included at the beginning of every chapter for each topic covered.
Customer Reviews:
Not one of the better REA books.......2007-09-30
I was so excited when I got this book. It's not easy to find physics help books that cover calculus based problems. Most physics books seem to be focused on algebra/trig based physics. That's obviously because people who know calculus know everything and don't need any help in anything... yeah, right! Luckily Rea and a few (and I mean a FEW) others still have common sense and realized that calculus based physics students need help too. Unfortunately I cannot recommend this physics book. It sucks that I can't since there aren't that many calculus based physics books.
This book just has some major flaws (at least they're major flaws in my opinion). Just to get it out of my system, I must say that the type-set that Rea uses sucks. I know every Rea book uses the same type of typewriter font and all of their "Problem Solver" books look bland, but I don't know why this has to be. In fact, there's no good reason they can't make their books a little more aesthetically pleasing.
Anyway, the most annoying feature I have found about this book is that a good chunk of the problems don't use the SI system of units, which is the standard system for science courses (for those who don't know, the SI system of units is basically a modified metric system).
Often when I work problems, I have to do extra work simply converting the given information into the SI unit. And once I come to an answer, I can't just compare my answer to the one in the book. Instead, I have to convert my answer back into the English system which is a hassle. I just simply don't understand why a science text wouldn't use the SI system. I have never seen a physics book (or any science book for that matter) not use the SI system. And if it weren't bad enough that this book very often does not use the SI system, it actually uses a lot of units that aren't very commonly used.
A lot of the problems use "slugs" as a unit. Perhaps advanced physics students know off hand what a slug is, but me, I had to look it up online just to do an otherwise easy problem. It turned out that a slug was around 14.6 kg. Now how many people actually knew that?
Amazing!.......2005-10-09
I'm very impressed; this book has loads of problems with which I can practise. It's simply the best physics problem book ever published!
Completely Useless.......2003-01-16
I have attempted numerous times to use examples from this book as guidance when stuck on homework problems assigned in my engineering physics course and have found that the book offers nothing but further frustration. It's unorganized, the typeset is monotonous and appears as if someone typed the book on a typewriter making it difficult to focus and follow the text, and I have yet to find a worked example that has been of any use whatsoever in completing even one of my homework problems.
The book does offer a lengthy chart of conversion factors.
Good Supplementary Practice, but that is it........2002-12-24
I am currently an engineering student, but I bought this book back in my highschool days for an AP Physics C class. I'd like to say that this book covers about every topic you can possibly imagine in physics at the introductory level. But even so, I'd rate it as just average. It may have some good interesting problems, but not many will find it worth the money. You may not even use more than a tenth of the book.
First of all, I dislike the layout of the book. The text is some courier font which makes it very difficult to read and thus difficult looking. The book is divided into chapters based on topic. The topics are pretty specific: Kinematics, Dynamics, Statics, etc. It starts out the chapter by 'trying' to teach you about that subject, but it fails entirely. The problems start out as easy as F = ma, but then suddenly jumps to extreme difficulty. I topped physics back in highschool and aced the APs, but I still found many of the problems extremely challenging. Just be warned that you had better be good in physics and also guessing as the solutions are also often anything but clear. It jumps around assuming you know whatever they are doing. Most of my friends who have borrowed the book have been unable to utilize it at all due to its difficulty.
In conclusion, if you are above average to excellent in physics, have nothing better to do, then you may want to just pick up this book as an extra supplement to challenge yourself or learn new methods in doing things. It maybe more useful in college where they split physics into more specific courses like dynamics, statics, electric circuits, etc. But by that time this book would be insufficient anyways. I just don't know what market the publishers were publishing for, as it is generally AP irrelevant, GCE irrelevant, and either too easy or too hard.
Especially good for AP Physics and Intro. College courses.......2002-07-28
As a physics and astronomy major in college, I wanted to say how much this book helped me in the years past. This book is undoubtedly the BEST textbook "supplement" that a student in AP Physics (B or C) or a beginning physics major can have! This Problem Solver is exactly what it says it is - a book full of physics problems worked out in detailed solutions. All too often I hear people complain that these books are not very helpful because they're not organized better, etc. But that's nonsense! If you're in one of the above-mentioned courses and it's late one night and you're stuck on a homework problem...there's a VERY GOOD chance that there's a problem in this book that you can use to work through the solution. This book should not be used as a study guide, but as a reference source for anywhere from beginning to more advanced problems. The wide range of difficulty level is the best reason to have this book because rarely do textbooks have examples that are difficult. Textbooks like to show "easy" examples in then the student gets stuck on the more challenging homework assignments and exams. This book is well worth the money!
Book Description
The Quantum Mechanics Solver uniquely illustrates the application of quantum mechanical concepts to various fields of modern physics. It aims at encouraging the reader to apply quantum mechanics to research problems in fields such as molecular physics, condensed matter physics or laser physics. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students will find a rich and challenging source of material for further exploration. This book consists of a series of problems concerning present-day experimental or theoretical questions on quantum mechanics. All of these problems are based on actual physical examples, even if sometimes the mathematical structure of the models under consideration is simplified intentionally in order to get hold of the physics more rapidly. The new edition features new themes, such as the progress in measuring neutrino oscillations, quantum boxes, the quantum thermometer etc. Secondly, it includes a brief summary on the basics of quantum mechanics and the formalism we use. Finally, the problems under three main themes: Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms; Quantum Entanglement and Measurement; and Complex Systems.
Customer Reviews:
Extremely useful.......2004-01-10
If you are studying quantum mechanics using popular textbooks such as Griffiths', Shankar's, Liboff, Sakurai, Ballentine, ... you must have this problem book on shelf. You can look up ALMOST every typical problem that appeared on qualifying exams--almost any hard problem you don't know how to solve. I personally find this very very helpful. Hihgly recommended!
Book Description
For students in engineering, architecture, and construction. Thorough coverage is given to bend ing moments, shear, stress and strain relations, beam deflections, torsion, and columns. Also included are sections on statically indeterminate members, dynamic loading, structural analysis, failure criteria, reinforced concrete, and timber design.
Customer Reviews:
Not great, needs to be used with a good textbook.......2000-05-20
This book is very useful if all you want is problems to practice before an exam. Apart from the usual dumbing down philosophy ("...typically many students find solid mechanics a difficult subject... and so goes the preface), the book has some nice set of problems, some of them being answers to questions in standard textbooks for the subject of strength of materials. I found a couple of problems from Crandall, Dahl and Lardner's textbook solved here. Nice addition, but has limited value once that final is over.
Average customer rating:
- still cheaper than BSL
- Decent reference, but wasn't required for understanding material
- DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS BOOK~
- This book is worthless
- Ok for Profs', "not so hot" for students
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Book Description
For chemical and mechanical engineering students. Covers transport in steady state and unsteady state systems. Includes problems in dimensional analysis and chemical reactions, compressible flow, boundary layer analysis, laminar and turbulent flow, and convection.
Customer Reviews:
still cheaper than BSL.......2006-11-21
It is true that this book has many drawbacks compared to a full-fledged textbook and it does not deliver all it promises to in the foreword, but it is cheaper than BSL and may serve as an overview of the field for the curious beginners who do not want to spend a great deal of money on BSL and are reasonably proficient in physics. Furthermore, we do not know who copied the examples from whom: BSL from REA or REA from BSL.
Decent reference, but wasn't required for understanding material.......2006-11-10
Overall this book appears to be a good reference, however, i did not use it very much while taking the class.
DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS BOOK~.......2006-07-21
I'm a Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering. I needed a study guide for my qual. and thought 'how bad could this book be?'... Well... It's BAD~!... Just get yourself a BSL (Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot) and solve their examples. After all, REA just copied all the examples right out of the BSL.
This book is worthless.......2002-11-01
This book has zero usability. It is not an adequate source of reference for any course pertaining to transport phenomena. You would have better luck using the internet to help you get past advanced problems with which you struggle, as this book is poorly organized and has little to offer to the student of any course beyond the introductory level.
Ok for Profs', "not so hot" for students.......1998-12-31
As an adjunct professor who teaches Transport Phenomena I purchased this book in the hope that it filled a void that has long existed in the area of solution books on transport phenomena; a good treatment of heat and mass transfer. The Schaum's outlines "Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics" and "Fluid Dynamics" are good treatments of momentum transport. To its credit the book does include a significant number of problems in heat and mass transport as well as in the area of momentum transport. However the book does not live up to some of its claims:
1. "When students want to look up a particular type of problem and solution they can readily locate it in the book by referring to the index...
The not all of the problems are that easy to find. For example if one looks for transpiration cooling one is referred to problem 16-4 in the section on convective mass transfer. Admittedly this problem has aspects of mass transfer as well as heat tranfer but one would have expected to find this in the section on convective heat transfer (e.g. Transport Phenomena by Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot). Also the index fails to point to another transpiration problem that is solved in chapter 6 (Boundary layer flow and drag force). This is an even more unlikely place to find such a problem. There are a number of other examples of "misplaced problems" which casts some doubt on the editor's expertise in Tranport Phenomena.
2. The book claims to overcome a limitation of most texts namely that of presenting example problems in "abbreviated form which leaves out material between steps and requires that the students derive the ommitted material themselves".
This approach seems to be applied very selectively. Those problems in which the ommitted material is relatively trivial and straightforward are solved in gory detail (see for example problem 6-14). However for problems in which the intermediate steps are not so obvious (see problem 11-10) the intermediate details are omitted. Problem 11-10 is a verbatim repititon of example 10.5-4 in the above mentioned book by Bird et al.) It discusses dimensional analysis of a natural convection problem. Bird et al. appear to choose rather arbitrarily a non-obvious form for the dimensionless quantities used to simplify the transport equations. It would have been useful to explain how these quantities were derived but this opportunity is missed completely.
Overall this book is a reasonably good compilation of a number of classic problems in Transport Phenomena and as such is a handy "one stop shopping" type of reference for teachers. In my rather brief perusal of the book I did not see any new and exciting problems being introduced. Also I don't see this as being a useful learning tool for students since it does not add much to the current solutions that already exist in standard texts on the subject. In fact as a didactic tool it falls far short of the Schaum's outline series in that it presents only problems and solutions with not supporting theoretical discussion.
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When confronted with problems in high school physics during homework or exams, students are often puzzled and at a loss as to ow to proceed in solving the problems. They find they must spend hours over a single problem assigned to them, in the search for the correct solution.
the underlying problem with high school phyusics is that textbooks typically do not adequately discuss and explain basic principles. Further, it requires considerable experience to know what type of solution route is likely to work best in tackling a particular problem.
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This book offers step-by-step explanations, and guides the student through each set of problems.
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The Physics Problem Solver
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In memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, 36 women contributors describe the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering. Because most of the contributors are writers - including Annie Ernaux, Adrienne Rich, and Alice Walker - the intersection of motherhood and creative life is an ongoing theme. Many of the writers articulate maternal anger and ambivalence, such as Jane Lazarre in "The Mother Knot." In other essays, such as Mary Gaitskill's "A Woman's Prerogative" and Joy Williams' "The Case Against Babies" the very fact of reproduction in an overpopulated world is questioned and probed. Selections also include Margaret Atwood's elusive story "Giving Birth"; excerpts from Sylvia Plath's passionate diaries and Tillie Olsen's ground-breaking Silences; and Mary Kelly's precise and intimate recordings of her son's early years from her epic artwork Post-Partum Document. The book also features literary criticism.
Customer Reviews:
Inspiring, shocking, eye-opening.......2004-01-02
Motherhood can be isolating, joyful, bewildering, boring, confusing, and exhilarating, often in a single day. This book helps mothers feel connected to other women who felt the same way, and were brave enough to express it in print. Amazing writers, including Sylvia Plath, Margaret Mead, Adrienne Rich, but more importantly, amazing women.
A great comfort to women who are struggling with the transition to motherhood, and good reading for anyone prepared to witness sacred stereotypes dismantled. Most of the contents truly challenge our established images of Mother, and as a result cause plenty of discomfort to read. But although the shiny, happy side of motherhood doesn't appear much here, one can feel the deep love, commitment, and passion these women have for their families, even if they are willing to admit they just want to be alone sometimes.
wonderful, yet depressing.......2003-01-06
This was the first book I ever purchased on-line as I was quite desperate to read something about motherhood that had some intellectual depth to it. I was not disappointed. The excerpts by Adrienne Rich and Anne Ernaux were especially revealing and mirrored many of my own feelings.
However, I was struck by the recurring theme that motherhood is an essentially depressing experience which renders a woman frustrated, over-burdened, and resentful. There was very little joy in this work and after reading it, I experienced a temporary drop in my own enjoyment of motherhood. Many of these women writers struck me as being pathologically selfish and unable to realize the temporariness of the whole experience; children are little for such a short time. And that any of these women were able to keep up with their writing while raising little ones leads me to conclude that a great deal of their energies were diverted away from their offspring. As an artist myself, I honestly cannot imagine how they do it.
If you're looking to be cheered up, this may not be the book for you. But if you're interested in viewing the darker psychological effects that motherhood presents creative women, I would highly recommend it. It is beautifully and passionately written.
Good for morale.......2002-02-04
I read this during my first month of motherhood. Some of the essays really spoke to me and what I was feeling. Others - well, you can skip them (I did). This is a unique book offering a shoulder to cry on when you really need it!
YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND-RX FOR ANXIOUS MOMS.......2001-08-05
This book is an absolute gem with excerpts from many ( not some but MANY) of the best writings on maternal emotions ever to see print. Most of the pieces contained here meet the exacting twin standard of being both compellingly written, and unflinchingly honest and real. Moyra Davey has created the ultimate collection, making MOTHER READER my #1 gift for new mothers, especially if they appear to be in any of the following mental states: overwhelmed; exhausted; insecure;ambivilent
If you know a new mother who doesn't meet these criteria, well, - perhaps she won't need this book, but for the rest of us, MOTHER READER demonstrates how great literature can also be great medicine, bringing catharsis, healing, revelation, and comfort., enfolding us, assuring us we are not alone.
PS I don't mean to say that you have to be a mother to treasure this collection. For example, I know of no better model for memoir writing.
Mother Reader Will Nourish Your Soul.......2001-07-08
This is a book for mothers, for writers, for readers, and for anyone to whom life and books are intertwined. The writing is some of the finest modern literature written; just check out the list of contributors. The essays, journals, and stories are powerful enough to inspire laughter, tears, outrage, and love -- powerful enough even to change the lives of those who read them. Mother Reader IS an absolutely essential collection of writings. If you are a mother, a writer, or a lover of fine writing, you need this book the way you need food and drink.
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