Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Fifth Edition (extended version)

• Publisher:   W. H. Freeman
• Number Of Pages:   1356
• Publication Date:   2003-08-15
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0716743892
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780716743897

I bought this for self-study to fill in the gaps I missed when taking Engineering Physics 1+2. For much of the material, I am very happy, and this book tells me what I wanted to know. But for other parts, it is too superficial. For example, this book shows me the Hagen-Poiseuille equation, but doesn't give you a derivation or a background into why. Same thing with Snell's Law. I can find the equations anywhere. From a textbook, I want the full explanation, in a well written and organized manner.

This book I'm sure is good for some people but I know that most of my physics class including me dislike this book quite a bit. The concepts aren't explained very well and the chapters are very choppy. It is a difficult read, but I'm sure it's great for other people.

This book is by far the worst textbook I have ever read. The writing was terrible with many errors and the subscripts and variable were not explained sufficiently. The pacing was also awful, the practice problems often enough had nothing to do with the material preceding it. There are no questions at the end of each section like traditional textbooks instead there are about 100 or so problems at the end of the chapter that held almost no resemblance to the example problems given during the chapter. Terrible book.

The other reviews sum it all very nicely, this is a terrible physics text. Notice how heavily the number of one and two star reviews outweigh 3,4, and 5 star reviews. If you are a teacher, instructor, or professor, and use this text, you are a bad person. I just can't even express in words how bad everything is done. 80% of the time spent in this text is trying to figure out what went on in an EXAMPLE'S intermediate step.

Just fyi, we are using this text in my college physics class and there are numerous errors in the first and second printings (i.e. in the problems, some of the "known" information is wrong). These problems do not appear to be in the third printing, however. So if you want a book that has workable problems with answers that make sense, make sure that your's is the 3rd printing.

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