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Physics for Scientists and Engineers combines outstanding pedagogy with a clear and direct narrative and applications that draw the reader into the physics. The new edition features an unrivaled suite of media and on-line resources that enhance the understanding of physics. Many new topics have been incorporated such as: the Otto cycle, lens combinations, three-phase alternating current, and many more. New developments and discoveries in physics have been added including the Hubble space telescope, age and inflation of the universe, and distant planets. Modern physics topics are often discussed within the framework of classical physics where appropriate. For scientists and engineers who are interested in learning physics.
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Excellent.......2003-06-27
This book is well organized, fairly rigorous, and contains lots of useful examples and problems. This text requires, at very least, a semester of calculus for an excellent understanding. 3 semesters of calculus will allow the reader to have a truly complete understanding of the text. The organization is mainly by color/font and is self-explanitory. The text is calc-based and the level of this material is the hardest that is actually covered in any freshman physics course in the country. (This is based off the info that that this text is used at MIT, which has one of the most difficult and best physics programs in the U.S.) The examples in this text really top it off; they lead the reader through the text and make all the problems at the end of the chapter feasible.
The main difference between this book and Serway's calc-based text (Serway's larger set ISBN: 0030317169) is that Serway's is slightly harder. (One review believed the Serway text to be easier, but I am guessing this was one of Serway's non-calc texts. Serway's calc-based text covers more than what is needed for the AP Phys-C Exam.)
Topics covered: Classical Mechanics, Oscillations/Waves, Fluids, and Thermodynamics.
THIS BOOK IS EXCELLENT FOR SELF-STUDY.
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- First printing riddled with errors
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- Very excelent.
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Physics For Scientists and Engineers: Vol. 1: Mechanics, Oscillations and Waves, Thermodynamics (Physics for Scientists & Engineers, Chapters 1-21)
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First printing riddled with errors.......2006-02-07
The first printing is riddled with errors. Freeman have published on their Web site 10 pages of errata, but I have found yet another error. I am left wondering how many errors remain, even in the newer, corrected, printing.
The examples are often worked with such abridgment that the student is left staring across either conceptual or algebraic chasms.
Too much page space is burned on problems, and not enough on exposition.
My perennial pet peeve for modern textbooks: the coated paper makes the book too heavy. I had to rip it into individual chapters to make it tolerable. And, of course, it is too expensive.
Gives me the creeps everytime I see it.......2004-07-29
What a bulky book, my all time companion during those long walks to the city library. How I would open you and reopen you and close you and reclose you every other day! How I kept all my stuff in you so that I might not have to spend hours searching for the appropriate answer pages! How I'd cuss when you got some of the answer solutions wrong! How I'd get annoyed when your problems did not occur in real world situations. How I'd struggle to keep my mind when I encountered on of those Niko problems. I still remember the dread I used to feel when I saw a three-dot problem. And the agony that a two-dot would sometimes be harder than a three dot. You gave me many hints to solve those problems, but why didn't you give sufficient explanations? Why? Why did you make me do the same lengthy problem with a differnt set of numbers and then speculate about the different results? Did I learn anything conceptually from you? I think it was all plugging in stuff, and making sense of diagrams. That's why now all that I've learnt seems like a distant memory. You are not welcome in my thoughts any more, oh bulky book!
dazed and confused.......2003-06-30
Terrible book - often when explaining problems, it skips steps (so you have no idea how they got from one point to the next), and they show so few examples. Over 100 homework problems for each chapter, with only the odd-#ed answers in back (no explanations, or even-#ed answers), and most of the problems have nothing similar that are explained in the chapter!
I'm having a rough time comprehending this book, and I'm an 'A' calculus student.
Very excelent........2003-05-12
The first equation that you see in this book is that "Tipler= Quality"
At first, this seems a little pompous and presumptuous. But it is alas, oh so true. When I first started physics this year, I had no experience of calculus. I thought taking a physics course based in calc was going to be hard. I was wrong, as Tipler's explinations were so well done that I found the math to be easy. Although its true that most of my physics learning came from my high school teacher, the only thing he lectured on where things that came almost directly from Tipler. This was convinient if I didn't feel like taking extensive notes. By the end of the simester, I had mechanics mastered. With Tipler by my side, the biggest challenge in learning physics was overcoming my own lazyness.
Very excelent........2003-05-12
The first equation that you see in this book is that "Tipler= Quality"
At first, this seems a little pompous and presumptuous. But it is alas, oh so true. When I first started physics this year, I had no experience of calculus. I thought taking a physics course based in calc was going to be hard. I was wrong, as Tipler's explinations were so well done that I found the math to be easy. Although its true that most of my physics learning came from my high school teacher, the only thing he lectured on where things that came almost directly from Tipler. This was convinient if I didn't feel like taking extensive notes. By the end of the simester, I had mechanics mastered. With Tipler by my side, the biggest challenge in learning physics was overcoming my own lazyness.
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Solutions Manual for Students Vol 1 Chapters 1-21: to Accompany Physics for Scientists and Engineers 4e .......2007-01-13
Good book for people taking a class requiring it the book. It is a little hard to understand why certain problems are done the way they are. Overall a good book to help you solve problems and determine whether you had the right thought process.
Save your money.......2000-10-24
This solution manual only provides answers for every 4th problem. It does not elaborate much either. You're better off just asking your TA. Or hell, you can buy my copy - I'm sending it back.
Solutions Manual for Students to Accompany Physics for Scien.......2000-05-01
this book is good, help student to solve the problem on the text book.
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Never take notes in your physics class again.......2001-02-03
This book is basically a collection of notes about Tipler's Physics for Scientist and Engineers Volume 1 chapters 1-21. It has example problems and outlines fundamental ideas from the main text. I find it very useful since most of the time I can read the 5-6 pages of overview and do all the homework. If I get stuck I can usually find an example problem in the study guide to help me along.
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Achieve success in your physics course by making the most of what PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS has to offer you. From a host of in-text features to a range of outstanding technology resources, you'll have everything you need to understand the natural forces and principles of physics. Throughout every chapter, the authors have built in a wide range of examples, exercises, and illustrations that will help you understand the laws of physics AND succeed in your course! Available with most new copies of the text is ThomsonNOW™ for Physics. Save time, learn more, and succeed in the course with this online suite of resources that give you the choices and tools you need to study smarter and get the grade. Receive a personalized study plan based on chapter-specific diagnostic testing to help you pinpoint what you need to know NOW, and interact with a live physics tutor through the exclusive Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING program to help you master the concepts.
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This book is an introductory explication on the theme of knot and link invariants as generalized amplitudes (vacuum-vacuum amplitudes) for a quasi-physical process. The demands of the knot theory, coupled with a quantum statistical frame work create a context that naturally and powerfully includes an extraordinary range of interelated topics in topology and mathematical physics. The author takes a primarily combinatorial stance toward the knot theory and its relations with these subjects. This has the advantage of providing very direct access to the algebra and to the combinatorial topology, as well as the physical ideas. This book is divided into 2 parts: Part I of the book is a systematic course in knots and physics starting from the ground up. Part II is a set of lectures on various topics related with and sometimes based on Part I. Part II also explores some side-topics such as frictional properties of knots, relations with combinatorics, knots in dynamical systems.
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math grad........2002-03-20
Overview of knots/physics. The book is fairly self-contained. It also has lots of pictures and works through the mathematics.
Introduces bracket polynomial, temperly-lieb algebra, and modeling physics ideas out of this stuff.
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Easy Homework!!.......2003-01-26
If you dont like to struggle with homeworks and your professor assigns homeworks out of the textbook, that's an oasis on your desert!!
Where to buy the teacher's manual?.......2003-01-09
Hey, this is a must for student! As a student, where can you buy a teacher's manual? Of course, it is not a complete solutions manual!
Extremely useful.......2003-01-09
This book is xtremely helpful for a physics class. I got an A because I studied it. It will guide you to understand the very essential materials and think technically. Well, this may not be good for a physics major but definitely a must for those who need physics as a tool!!!
Don't buy this study guide.......2002-12-28
When I first bought this study guide.. I though it would help me with my study in Physics since the professor is not good at teaching the subject.. I was indeed disappointed with the study guide.. It is hard to understand just like its textbook..
My advise don't buy the study guide.. unless you don't beleive me just buy it and see for yourself..
this book is not complete solution manual.......2000-04-21
buy a teacher solution manual instead
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The new face of Clifford Analysis.......2001-06-23
In this second volume of the Proceedings of the Ixtapa Conference on Clifford Algebras and Their Applications to Mathematical Physics, the editors have collected papers which reflect the latest developments in Clifford Analysis. It is fair to say that the authors of the contributions are virtually all the important names in the field, and the picture that the volume presents of Clifford Analysis indicates the vitality of the topic. Maybe the most important thing in this volume (what I called the "new face" of Clifford Analysis) is the clear sense that Clifford Analysis is now used as a powerful tool to solve classical problems which the standards tools from the analysis in Euclidean spaces could not solve. This evolution from a discipline concerned with its own (quite interesting) internal problems, to a discipline capable of addressing outstanding issues in geometry and analysis is the product of the work of many of the contributors to these Proceedings. The volume is divided in four sections. The first deals with partial differential equations and boundary value problems. I particularly appreciated the survey work on the study of Beltrami type equations in three dimensions. The second section deals with Singular Integral Operators, the third offers some important Applications to Geometry and Physics, and the volume concludes with a section on Mobius Transformations and Monogenic Functions. I have found the papers of great interest because they not only address important and difficult problems, but also provide the reader with a wide variety of new issues to deal with. The majority of the papers is rather technical, and probably only accessible to the specialist, but a few of them (including the one on Beltrami equations I mentioned before) provide a sense of the state of the art, which is of great help to the analyst or the geometer who wishes to enter this beautiful branch of mathematics.
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Volume I 5th edition softcover textbook.
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The Master in Miniature.......2000-12-28
Hardy's novels continue to be justly popular and his poetry (which he considered his most important work)has worn well with the critics, but the short stories deserve a much wider audience than they have received. This collection, which contains some of his best, provides a fine introduction to the dark vision of the late Victorian master. The title story is uncharacteristically happy, a pastoral piece in which Hardy tells a comic tale about a young woman's unexpected talent for criminal activity. The other stories are much more representative, being concerned with the perils of love, the cruelty of convention and the tragic vulnerability of human aspirations to the whims of fate. Many of the tales are also wrapped in the Gothic and even grotesque trappings that Hardy seemed to favour when the mood was upon him. This collection gives Bram Stoker and Stephen King a run for their money, featuring a corpse with a stake driven through its heart, a new bride spending her wedding night with her new husband by her side and the corpse of her first husband in the next room, parricide, suicide and kidnapping. The mood of the pieces varies from the sunny high jinks of "The Distracted Preacher" to the wrenching tragedy of "A Son's Veto" and the relentless horror of "The Withered Arm." Overall, this group of tales gives the newcomer to Hardy an excellent introduction to his talents as a storyteller, and fans of his novels will enjoy the opportunity to see the master at work on a smaller stage.
Hardy was NOT a great short story writer..........2000-08-03
but these stories, culled from his archives, represent the absolute best of his short work.
Hardy's tales here evoke early 19th century England; not just the Wessex Heath of Return of the Native (a novel whose opening four pages are among the best in all of literature) but the small towns where bootleggers operate and ghosts walk the back lanes.
All these stories have an "oral" quality about them, as if they were told by a hoary English gent, his face wreathed in smoke from an old Meerschaum. None of these stories will knock you out, but there were some pleasant surprises, including "An Imaginative Woman" (the best Hardy short story I've read so far), and "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions," which raises intriguing questions on murder and responsibility. Hardy's favorite tale, "The Son's Veto" is also included, but I found this story, along with "Fiddler of the Reels" to be a dud. "Barbara of the House of Grebe" is unintentionally funny - an execrable Gothic exercise, where Hardy sounds more formulaic than ever. Thankfully, the too-oft anthologized (but lovely) "The Three Strangers" is not included.
Hardy wrote a lot of garbage short stories in his career - so, kudos to the editor for weeding through them and presenting us with the best of his short works.
Read his novels. They are much better.
Wonderful little Hardy vistas!.......2000-05-09
If you are familiar with Hardy, you probably know him as a brilliant novelist and possibly, a poet (he excelled in both areas). However, he shone in the short story form as well, as this collection vividly demonstrates. This book includes some of Hardy's best known and most poignant stories, including the spectacular 'Grave by the Handpost' and the 'Fiddler of the Reels,' which echo with the tragic themes prevalent in his later novels. Hardy's prose style is incredibly moving and poetic in his short stories. He used words to serve a purpose, which is more than I can say for a number of Victorian writers. These stories are a wonderful introduction to Hardy if you have not had any exposure to his 'great' works. And don't give up with them! Although his style is moderately cumbersome, I'm sure you will find his socially-aware ideas surprisingly modern and unbelievably brutal in their rawness. Hardy is a classic writer who no one should miss reading. If you want a brilliant introduction to his work (but beware, reading these stories will drain you!) I highly recommend this collection. You will also enjoy it immensely if you've only experienced Hardy the novelist. A note to teachers: I am a high school student, and I know that my peers would have appreciated Hardy much more if he had been presented to them through these tremendous stories, rather than through his novels. I am a devout Hardy fanatic, but know people with short attention spans have difficulty appreciating his novels. Introducing Hardy to your students through his stories (I particularily recommend the Fiddler of the Reels) might allow you to cover more ground.
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