Fundamentals of Physics, Chapters 1-20 (Volume 1)
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The Book does not come With the Wiley PLUS Registration Code. It is an extra $90. This make it more then to get it at my School (code and book are about $170 there). The review has the Wiley PLUS in it but you cannot use unless you pay more. THE NEW BOOK SHOULD COME WITH THE CODE OR SAY IT DOES NOT!!!!!!
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This publication provides a very useful reference for many areas of physics.  The bibliographies at the end of each section serve as a starting point for further research in the particular subject.
The contributing authors of this book are impressive, e.g. J.D. Jackson (Classical Electrodynamics), H. Goldstein (Analytical Dynamics), E.C.G. Sudarshan, etc.
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Forewarning: this volume of College Physics caps at chapter 17! If you're doing a year-long physics sequence, you'll likely need to buy the full text.
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This book is a study guide companion to the Fundamentals of Physics book which is mostly physics problems with little explanation on solving them. This book is a walk through of the most important concepts and gives a much clearer picture for problem solving. I was having a lot of trouble understanding how the physics equations were working together. This book cleared everything up and is painless to read and understand.

Students will need to go through the main book and work on all of the assigned problems but their understanding will be greatly improved by reading this book before doing the homework.
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This is a good book. Lots of pictures and illustrations. I had a hard time in Physics 2 with electrical theory but this text has helped me understand and grasp the concept much better! Of course Phy-2 material was covered in 3 weeks and this course goes over the material for 16 weeks but I liked it.
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I've just started reading this book and haven't gotten very far in yet, but I am finding it easy to understand versus other textbooks that are filled with stale and dry explanations too hard to interpret. I've never taken a Physics course and needed a book that talked on my "layman level" and this book does a good job of bringing Physics to my understanding. For someone who's new to Physics as I am, or someone who needs a quick basic review, this book is a gem. And, of course, you can't beat the price!
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Like the rest of the Manga series the Guide to Physics offers an excellent well-laid out introduction to the material it covers.  The best use of the comic story to introduce material and a textual summary to review mathematics and summarize content is well exploited.  My only caveat on this excellent intuitive tutorial is that it is intended to provide a clear easy introduction to high-school and introductory college Newtonian Mechanics.  What about the casual reader who is looking for a general non-curricular summary of what topics are covered by modern physics including electricity, magnetism, atomic theory and relativity?  If you or the intended recipient of this book needs a clear, intuitive and entertaining guide to the physics of the high school or introductory college curriculum--this is clearly an excellent tutorial.  But if going by the title, you are looking for a general introduction to what physics is about, you will also be entertained, educated and well-prepared for further study, but be somewhat disappointed by the scope of this excellent book.

--Ira Laefsky
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This book is easy to read. It is written by a professor in the EE Department at the University of Michigan. There are some technical applications of  Quantum Mechanics. I strongly recommend to engineering students who want to really understand solid state physics and quantum optics. This book is a good introduction.
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This book is an excellent introduction to the physics of sliding friction. It puts an emphasis on the microscopic mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of friction. Everything is explained in a very clear way. Mathematics is kept to a minimum and only used to clarify things. The book also covers, in contrast to traditional books on tribology, topics like the friction on superconductors. I can recommend this book to both experienced scientists and graduate students who are interested in the physics of friction. I am sure you will enjoy reading it. Have fun!
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There are many fine books on thermodynamics, many by the masters, and still readily available (Fermi, Planck....) There are also many books which combine statistical mechanics and thermodynamics in what is called `thermal physics'. The book by Carrington is intended for a first course in classical thermodynamics. It has the virtue of developing classical thermodynamics in a series of levels of increasing generality.
At the first level, the author first starts with the ideal gas, and introduces the notions of temperature, states and processes, the first law, and entropy in a very concrete way.
At the next level,  Carrington generalizes to the classical laws of thermodynamics: the zeroth, first, second laws. He derives some useful modern results (the reversible process theorems) from the second law in Chapter 7, and discusses electric and magnetic work processes.
At the third level of abstraction, Carrington discusses Gibbs's formulation in which states are emphasized over systems and their processes. States and their properties are encoded in what Gibbs called the fundamental relation: U = U(S,V). Gibbs showed how this viewpoint could be modified to include processes in which the quantity of matter changes.
Finally, Carrington finishes with a discussion of applications, including changes of state and phase changes, critical phenomena, and chemical reactions.
This is a book written with care and a great deal of pedagogical thought. It has many worked examples, and exercises which reinforce the text. One very nice feature is that some of the longer exercises have been written in a step-by-step fashion to make them more accessible.
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I had the opportunity to use this text while taking Prof. Torquato's material science course at Princeton. The classnotes were a condensed version of the book, while the book describes all the concepts in more details. The book presents a unified treatment of the basic equations of continuum mechanics (flow, elasticity, conduction, diffusion) from a statistical mechanical viewpoint (heavy use of probability models is made), in composite materials (for example, a material with 'spherical inclusions' of a different physical electrical conductivity from the surrounding medium are added) characterized by effective properties (conductivity, permeability, stiffness, trapping constant). The effective properties are calculated from first principles via various correlation functions (Section I describes the probability functions required for dealing with random media; Section II deals with actual calculations of effective properties). To my knowledge, it is the first comprehensive book on the subject; other texts deal with smaller subsections. In some cases, these techniques were previously available only in the specialized literature. I found the many examples provided in the text to be very helpful.  I also enjoyed the section on variational principles in the second half of the book; it provides further examples of how variational calculus can be applied to solve relevant problems (in this case, dealing with the optimization of material properties). Most of the theorems are proved and the proofs are short and so shouldn't be much of a burden. The chemist should know this is mostly a book on mathematics, and so does not provide numerical examples with numbers and units (however, all one needs to do is plug in numbers in the formulas), and doesn't present too many actual real-life physical examples you are likely to deal with in the laboratory. Prerequisites are simple: a bit of linear algebra, tensor calculus (but only in orthogonal euclidean spaces), familiarity with basics of probability theory (you should know what a probability density is). Knowledge of statistical mechanics is helpful but not required. There is, of course, a section on hard sphere packing for which the author is well-known for. The chapter on homogenization theory is one of the most accessible I've seen (no knowledge of functional analysis is required-- so it is perfect for the beginner). This  book does not have exercises or problems for the reader (it is not for the undergraduate student-- but rather for researchers in the cross-disciplinary fields), and so requires a certain degree of maturity to absorb the material.
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Just the right text book for hame study Physics or classroom use.  there may not be many more 9th editions available
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The most readable introductory text to quantum mechanics that I have found.  It covers all the core basic topics with great clarity and builds up the subject through clear examples and demonstrations.  I would strongly recommend it for anyone's physics library.
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The textbook, Computer Simulation Using Particles, ushered in the era of particle-in-cell codes which are still the subject of PhD dissertation research to develop faster numerical techniques to solve these problems in particle physics.  This textbook was the first work published on this topic in 1981, and remains in print and available as used reference books today.  It is a classic and introduces both the novice physics student and programmer to this complex problem.
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I gave this book 5 stars, even though the Student Solutions Manual (sold separately) is a disappointment.
I find this text not only to be an excellent textbook for the Physics course that I take at university, but also an excellent reference book. In fact, this is the only textbook I intend to keep after this semester is over.
This book covers all major aspects of Physical Science with enough detail dedicated to every important topic. Explanations and examples are clear most of the time, however, sometimes you need to spend time to figure how things work (if you are like me, anyway).
My major is Computer Science and good knowledge of physics behind motion, light, energy and electricity is very useful both for my work and my studies. This book will stay with me for a while as a reference text.
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This book was absolutely amazing. It helped me in my physics 101 class big time! It had all I needed to get a good grade in my class, I highly recommend this book.
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I recently took my first semester of calculus based physics. Unit N of Moore's Six Ideas series starts off slow in my opinion, but provides a useful introduction for those who have not been acquainted with physics concepts before. It teaches the reader how to think and solve problems rather than just giving formulas and plugging away numbers.

Later on, it introduces more complex concepts such as simple harmonic motion and non-uniform gravitation, which are slightly more difficult to learn, but with time and studying, become easier. I think he could have explained the aforementioned concepts a bit more.

I think anyone who is new to physics should start with these books. Units C, N, and R are all well-written, and explain the concepts clearly.