- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing (10 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0750305851
- ISBN-13: 978-0750305853
- Product Dimensions: 27 x 19 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 491,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
This book is the only book on the market that specifically caters for the OCR B (advancing physics) specification.
Throughout the book good intentions to make physics seem exciting and imaginative are displayed. Unfortunately this comes at the cost of clarity and usability. Information that will and will not be examined is not clearly separated and topics are disscussed in a narative style that makes finding key facts hard. Some attempt has been made to highlight key facts in boxes, however these are rarely clear or self explanatory. Much reference throughout is made to the CD in the same series, however the CD is difficult to navigate and the student version does not provide any answers to questions. The book does contain some questions and end of topic revison but only numerical answers are provided and many of these are incorrect! It is definitely worth downloading the correction sheet from the website as some of the equations and units quoted in the book are also misprints.
The book is not particulary useful as a revision aid as more difficult topics are skirted around while much time is spent on presenting topics in a historical and ethical setting. Ideas tend to flow into each other not always following a logical order. No attempt has been made to cross reference to other topics in the book.
The index is brief and the contents list does not provide adequate information on chapters.
In conclusion this book is not aimed at A level science students but at the interested layman. I would not recommend buying it even if you are taking the course. Advanced Physics For You covers most of the topics and those not covered can be supplemented with other textbooks.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
The book does not set the ideas out clearly or provide helpful summaries, and contains a lot of irrelevant material. Too many of the answers to the practice questions are wrong.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Although this book is meant to follow the OCR B syllabus it does so in a very random way. It is not systematic at all. The book also waffles too much. It goes into too much detail about the ethics and history of the subject rather than the actual physics! Dont get this book unless u really have to.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Terrible.
I study AS physics at the moment, and this is the textbook that we use. It's written more like a story than a textbook, with terrible summaries of the chapters and random... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2010 by Ms. Helena M. Moretti
An utter waste of paper....
I am an A2 student follwoing the Advancing Physics course. Sad as it is, this coursebook is an absolute shambles. Co-authored by 30 different people it is patchy and inconsistant. Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2008 by Mr. D. Abell
Absolute rubbish
Not only is the book set out poorly, answered wrongly and full of too much waffle, the answers to most of the end of chapter questions are missing, labelled 'No numerical answer'.
Published on 17 May 2008 by Mr. T. A. Shephard
Too Short, Too Weak
Although the course outlined by this textbook is available primarily a CD-Rom format, it is always useful to have a book to guide you along the main concepts, and help you with... Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2008 by snootyjim
I would give it zero
From the perspective of someone studying AS level physics, this book is utterly pathetic in every single way possible. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2008 by Richard Dawkins
USELESS
All the Teachers at my School admit that this book is useless and we are encouraged to buy other books, e.g Roger Muncaster. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2008 by Mr. B. A. Sariffodeen
Makes success near imposible
i choose to study As physics but this book makes it extremly differcult it doesnt explain key areas of study and some of the text is not needed. Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2007 by Daniel Dix
WORST BOOK EVER
This book, while being 'endorsed by OCR' is full of long winded explanations of principals which are utterly irrelevent to the specification, and often hastily skips over aspects... Read more
Published on 27 July 2007 by John Hemingway
Just about complies with the OCR syllabus!
I've just finished my A-level in Physics (OCR advancing physics syallabus) and I found the textbook very little help what so ever. Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2007 by E. Griggs
I give this book credit for my success
some people may not regard this text book as very useful, however it does contain all of the information that you need to obtain a good grade. Read more
Published on 14 April 2007 by Laura
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