Essential University Physics: Volume 2: Chapters 20-39

by Richard Wolfson

Book Overview

Richard Wolfson s Essential University Physics, Second Edition is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and relevant real-life... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805338381
• ISBN13: 9780805338386
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 401 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.1" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Everything it said it would be

I required this book for my collegiate physics course. The textbook shipped within an adequate timeframe, and the product itself came as advertised.

Incredibly easy to learn from

I took summer courses in introductory physics over the summer, and the two volumes of this book were the prescribed textbooks. Never have I found it as easy to learn material from a textbook as with these two books. Most everything is explained in a clear manner (even if some figures are a little confusing), and mathematical justification is given for most of the claims in the book. It's also good about making sure you get the right idea of what's being learned right off the bat, introducing vectors and light calculus usage early. Honestly, I think these books even helped my understanding of Calculus grow, and I've already taken several upper division math courses. I would highly recommend these volumes (or, if they ever come together in one book, that) to anyone looking to learn introductory physics.

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some odd 25 years ago i took an undergraduate course in physics based on the 3 volumes of Alonso-Finn "Fundamental university physics". Keen to brush up on my rusty knowledge of classical physics i've been browsing the market searching for a present-day introductory university course on physics. This book more than fulfilled my expectations. It's comprehensive, concise, well-structured, a joy to read, and above all, from an educational point of view, the best book on physics i've ever read. It's so easy as a student to get the wrong conceptions in your head, and once they're there, they usually stay there for a very long time. Richard Wolfson brilliantly avoids this pitfall - he knows exactly where students are likely to misinterpret certain equations or ideas in physics, and he does a splendid job making sure the students get all "the big ideas" right from the start. I would not only recommend this book to students of physics, but to everyone interested in the most beautiful of all sciences. If only there were more educators the likes of R. Wolfson.