Fundamentals of Physics

By David Halliday, Jearl Walker, Robert Resnick, et al.

Book Overview

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...apparel and sought and obtained employment as a teamster in the quartermasters department. Her features were very large, and so coarse and masculine was her general appearance that she would readily have passed as a man, and in her case the deception was no doubt easily practiced. Next day the "she dragoon " was caught, and proved to be a rather prepossessing young woman, and though necessarily bronzed and hardened by exposure, I doubt if, even with these marks of campaigning, she could have deceived as readily as did her companion. How the two got acquainted I never learned, and though they had joined the army independently of each other, yet an intimacy had sprung up between them long before the mishaps of the foraging expedition. They both were forwarded to army headquarters, and, when provided with clothing suited to their sex, sent back to Nashville, and thence beyond our lines to Louisville. On January 9, by an order from the War Department, the Army of the Cumberland had been divided into three corps, designated the Fourteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first. This order did not alter the composition of the former grand divisions, nor change the commanders, but the new nomenclature was a decided improvement over the clumsy designations Right Wing, Centre, and Left Wing, which were well calculated to lead to confusion sometimes. McCooks wing became the Twentieth Corps, and my division continued of the same organization, and held the same number as formerly--the Third Division, Twentieth Corps. My first brigade was now commanded by Brigadier-General William H. Lytle, the second by Colonel Bernard Laiboldt, and the third by Colonel Luther P. Bradley. On the 4th of March I was directed to move in light marching order toward Franklin and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047157578X
• ISBN13: 9780471575788
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 1472 Pages
• Weight: 6.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 2.1" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

This book saved my score.

I am fascinated with mathematics, chemistry, and physics. I bought my first Halliday Physics book my first year in college. but took mostly math classes. My 2 year I pretty much finish his book and took a physics class from a professor who loved practical physics of everyday phenomenon. Bored me to tears, I skipped most classes, he threatened me with an F. Last week of class he decided to give a universal test used by others. I was the only student who passed that test, it brought everyone's score down except mine, I passed with a C. I love Halliday/Resnick textbooks.

Amazing Physics Book

arrived in very good condition, this is a classic physics book with lots of content, excellent for self studying. I'm using this edition to self study for further physics all the way up to classical mechanics and quantum physics primarily using it and other books to self teach up to David J Griffiths awesome book introduction to electrodynamics. I highly recommend this book. Tons of content tons of examples.

Excellent Text and Companion CD

I'm sure you can read a ton of reviews on here that will tell you the same thing. The examples are great, the text is straightforward and clear, and the exercises are adequately elaborated, so no problem really leaves you thinking "well, this just can't be right...". And in case you get stuck, you've got easily the best software companion available for any textbook ever. The CD-Physics companion can guide you through solutions for many of the exercises, either by presenting a nicely worked out solution as you would write it on a paper, by giving you hints, or by helping you solve the problem yourself with the interactive LearningWare feature. It becomes obvious that this book spends a lot of time making sure the reader can achieve an adequate understanding of the material, rather than forcing the student to memorize vague formulas which seem to have no unity. The chapters are presented in a (somewhat) reasonable order, building on concepts learned in the previous chapter in most cases. You get the full introductory college physics stuff in this book, from Newtonian mechanics to thermodynamics to electricity and electromagnetic waves. This is perfect for the student who shies from asking others for help, as either the book or the CD Physics companion will have the answers they seek. I was never particularly fond of physics and have always thought of it as the bare essentials for a computer engineer, but this book gave me a new appreciation for the physical aspects of my engineering field, especially with the very complete (from a general overview) chapters on electricity, capacitance, and inductance.

Good foundation in classical physics

The 'Halliday/Resnick' physics textbook has been used at the university introductory level for decades. This latest edition is colorful, interesting, filled with solved problems, and suitable for the interested general reader. Only a limited knowledge of calculus is assumed. The 'Extended Edition' contains chapters on quantum physics and cosmology not present in the 'Regular Edition'. The chapter on gravitation includes a brief, nonmathematical description of Einstein's general theory of relativity, including its inspiration by the principle of equivalence. Towards the end of the textbook, an entire, easy-to-read chapter on special relativity is included. This is followed by similar introductory chapters on matter waves, nuclear physics and particle physics. This reference provides the motivated general reader with a suitable background to be able then to read most books on modern physics.

The classic......(I used it as a T.A. and as a student)

I am a graduate student in physics and I have been a teaching assistant for 3 years now at Iowa State Univesity and SUNY Stony Brook. I have taught introductory physics numerous times and I have teaching experience with this book: IT IS GREAT. It is everything that the students ever dreamed of. Every chapter has really easy to follow explanation of the fundamental theory and numerous step-by-step solved problems and examples. It also has nice boxes with general strategies for solving problems. At the end of every chapter there is an extensive collection of exercises that fit well with the material of the book.An advice for the students: Dont start doing your homework before you understand the material. I have seen it numerous times, students that have not understood what is really going on, trying to solve the problems. Big mistake. Open the Halliday-Ressnick book, study the material first and then solve the problems. There is a general fear among the students to go through the theory of the book (any book) first and spend some quality time trying to absorb it. They just think that physics is too difficult of a subject and that they wont understand a thing. For that reason they just use their collection of formulae and blindly try to apply it in order to solve the problems.I believe that Halliday-Resnick breaks this barrier, their treatment of the subject shows how much they care for the student and they do their best to explain things in the easiest possible way.Something that really breaks the ice is a photograph at the beginning of each chapter that shows an everyday phenomenon that will be treated in the course of that particular chapter, like the picture showin a young girl up in the mountain, with her hair floating up in the air! (a dangerous situation as explained in the book), or the explosion of the Hinderburg and also the picture of a man inside a car that is being hit by a lightning without harming the man inside!As an undergraduate in physics I used this book too for my introductory physics courses so I also have read it from the student point of view. I believe that it does a superb job clarifyng the fundamental principles of physics without difficult or "intellectual-kind" of explanations. It goes step by step building up until you understand it. I also used this book extensively to prepare for the Physics subject GRE test and it helped a lot. I still keep it in my office and frequently look for things that I have forgotten. I totaly recommend it.As for the mathematical prerequisites of the book that a previous reviewer has commented on I would say that you need to how to solve simple integrals (nothing more dramatic than a polyonym or a trigonometric function or 1/r and 1/r^2) and also it would be nice to know the meaning of a derivative as the rate of change of a function with respect to some variable. Nothing more. Enjoy!P.S.1 I am familiar with the 4th and 5th edition. P.S.2 There exists a