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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 530 EAN: 9780071382014 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0071382011 Label: McGraw-Hill Professional Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 599 Publication Date: August 01, 2002 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional Editorial Review: Product Description: * Unlike most books on the topic, this one utilizes a "top down" approach--general concepts are presented first and details follow * For the most user-friendly and clear style possible, formulas and equations are used when necessary, but mathematics does not overwhelm the presentation Average Rating:
 Rating:  - very disappointingI knew physics was going to be difficult for me, this book made it worse. it spends a greater part of the book going over basics of math up to trig. all the way to chapter 7 almost (half the book!!!)its all basics and hardly any physics. concepts covered were not detailed enough and I found the quizzes useless since information to accomplish them were vague and useless. oh well .... I'll take it again next semester. ***Personally, I suggest you visit your local borders etc... and spend ... Read More Rating: - disaster on wheelsIf you want to "teach" physics to a parrot this is the book to use. There is no insight, no derivations, no guiding principles. To make matters worse the so-called problems often consist of nothing but shuffling powers of ten to convert from one measurement system to another - making the work about the units and not about the physics. Utterly deplorable. Rating: - Good introductory text and refresher.This is a good text for someone like myself who has been away from physics for a while. Things are explained quite well using algebra and trig. There is no calculus that I could identify. I found that using this book along with the "Physics Tutor" DVD was a good way for me to recall stuff long forgotten and some things that I never understood to begin with. All in all a good introductory text and guide book but this is no substitute for a "real" college level physics textbook like "Physics: ... Read More Rating:  - Has Some Very Nice and useful PictorialsPresented here in seriatim, are basic introductions to a number of isolated and completely unrelated topics in physics. Compared to the "REA Problem Solver on Physics;" the old standby, the "Schaum Outline Series on Physics;" or indeed my favorite on these topics "The Transnational College of LEX series," the DeMYSTiFieD Series is comfortably pulling up the rear. After having read seven of the series, so far, all of the signs are that the material in them seems to have been "culled" from ... Read More Rating: - Not for beginnersThe back of this book says simple enough for beginners, but IT IS NOT! I think if you have been over physics before this book "could" be helpful, but not for someone seeing this stuff for the first time. The refresher part only states some facts about pre-physics material, but doesn't explain why it is stated. The tests after each chapter ask about material outside the book that is not even covered. I will be taking this book back for a refund and getting the "for dummies" version. |
