- Paperback
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 10th International edition edition (24 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 020170059X
- ISBN-13: 978-0201700596
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 20.8 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,599,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- A. Lewis Ford, Texas A&M
- This manual includes worked-out solutions for about one-third of the problems. Volume 1 covers Chapters 1-17. Volume 2 covers Chapters 22-46. Answers to all odd-numbered problems are listed at the end of the book.
About the Author
Hugh D. Young is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Carnegie Mellon for both undergraduate and graduate study and earned his Ph.D. in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1956 and has also spent two years as a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
Professor Young’s career has centered entirely on undergraduate education. He has written several undergraduate-level textbooks, and in 1973 he became a co-author with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky for their well-known introductory texts. With their deaths, he assumed full responsibility for new editions of these books until joined by Prof. Freedman for University Physics.
Professor Young is an enthusiastic skier, climber, and hiker. He also served for several years as Associate Organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Pittsburgh, and has played numerous organ recitals in the Pittsburgh area. Prof. Young and his wife Alice usually travel extensively in the summer, especially in Europe and in the desert canyon country of southern Utah.
Roger A. Freedman is a Lecturer in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Freedman was an undergraduate at the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles, and did his doctoral research in nuclear theory at Stanford University under the direction of Professor J. Dirk Walecka. He came to UCSB in 1981 after three years teaching and doing research at the University of Washington.
At UCSB, Dr. Freedman has taught in both the Department of Physics and the College of Creative Studies, a branch of the university intended for highly gifted and motivated undergraduates. He has published research in nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, and laser physics. In recent years, he has helped to develop computer-based tools for learning introductory physics and astronomy. When not in the classroom or slaving over a computer, Dr. Freedman can be found either flying (he holds a commercial pilot’s license) or driving with his wife, Caroline, in their 1960 Nash Metropolitan convertible.
A. Lewis Ford is Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University. He received a B.A. from Rice University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972. After a one-year postdoc at Harvard University, he joined the Texas A&M physics faculty in 1973 and has been there ever since. Professor Ford’s research area is theoretical atomic physics, with a specialization in atomic collisions. At Texas A&M he has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, but primarily introductory physics.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
i used this book for my masters degree in physics. it is quite simply the best physics book available. although aimed at 1-2 year undergraduates i was still refering to it right up to my finals.
it demonstrates what many of my lecturers lacked: a real love of physics and and a love of sharing this with others. and at the same time it is clear, consice and authoratative.
if you are studying physics at university level, buy this book.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've used both this book and Halliday's Extended 6th edition for my course on Physics. My conclusion, chapter after chapter, has been clear to me: this is the perfect book for a general course on Physics at university level. The language is simple to understand (Halliday too), the figures and tables are well done and useful (Halliday too), the content is thorough (Halliday: not so much !). Yes, this last is the striking thing: this book thorough and reaches a level of detail that is not a common feature for these kind of Physics books.
The problems set is well balanced both in content and number (an average of 85-90 for each chapter), and as usual odd-numbered problems' solutions are provided.
I've tried this book without anybody advising it to me, now I'm happy I've had it for the exam.
The problems set is well balanced both in content and number (an average of 85-90 for each chapter), and as usual odd-numbered problems' solutions are provided.
I've tried this book without anybody advising it to me, now I'm happy I've had it for the exam.
3 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In terms of the intellectual demand placed on the student this excellent text-coming from the landmark serie of Textbooks by Sears and Zemansky is comparable to Halliday-Resnick-Walker/Krane, Serway-Beichner-Jewett, Tipler, Wolfson-Pasachoff but is a bit lower than
Anthony Philip French, MIT Physics Course, Vol 1-Newtonian Mechanics or Volume 1, Berkeley Physics Course or Vol 1, Feynman Lectures of Physics.
However the authors neglect the recoil kinetic energy of the
earth when calculating escape velocity from the Solar
system. In a paper of mine with A. P. French,
American Journal of Physics, 56, 85-86, 1988 we observe the
correct approach. To improve a bit the teaching of physics
we require more modeling with illustrative sequence.
Anthony Philip French, MIT Physics Course, Vol 1-Newtonian Mechanics or Volume 1, Berkeley Physics Course or Vol 1, Feynman Lectures of Physics.
However the authors neglect the recoil kinetic energy of the
earth when calculating escape velocity from the Solar
system. In a paper of mine with A. P. French,
American Journal of Physics, 56, 85-86, 1988 we observe the
correct approach. To improve a bit the teaching of physics
we require more modeling with illustrative sequence.
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