Customer Reviews:
Good Supplement To Text.......2005-10-21
This book makes the course so much easier. I strongly recomend it to anyone taking the course. The solutions are very acurate. Only about 20 percent of of problems have soultions, enough to help the self-motivated students, not enought to use to cheat. I've worked through almost the entire text and have never found any errors. The study guide provides a usefull math backround, several fully worked exemples and good, concise, explanations.
Customer Reviews:
Getting to school.......2006-02-01
Of the many problems Americans frequently complain about, one has been lurking under the radar over the last several decades, and has occasionally surfaced in nasty fights at the state and local government level. This problem is that of transportation to and from college campuses. As the US population grows, the availability of open land goes down, and the number of college students increase, physical access to colleges has become a perennial issue in many states. I came to discover this in the past decade. First as a student, and now as a staff scientist at Arizona State University, I have been at ASU since 1994. In that time, I have watched parking at ASU go from great, to downright horrible.
Dr. Michael Crow became ASU's president in 2002, and since then, he has proceeded to enact numerous changes at ASU. One of them is the transformation of ASU from a commuter campus to a residential campus, and the associated loss of parking spaces inherent in such a change. As part of this, Dr. Crow had asked the students of ASU to form a task force to address transportation needs. I joined this task force, and as part of my duties, read a lot of books on transportation issues of college campuses. This is one of the books I read. I am glad I read this book. It examines transportation management at universities across the US, from large public schools, to small private schools, from schools in the countryside to schools in downtown. This book looks at the various aspects of transportation management, such as public transit, carpooling, greener forms of transit, correlating the demand and supply of parking on campuses, how to get schools and other government agencies to work together, etc, etc...
The book provides detailed case studies of how specific schools have handled their transportation needs for both their employees and students. Successes and failures are highlighted, and how both came to be. Details are given, such as costs, timelines, maps showing how transit plans were developed, charts correlating bus usage with ticket prices, etc... The primary conclusion reached by the book are similar to those I reached while working on the task force at ASU: reduce demand for car parking instead increasing supply. All in all, a great book that should be required reading for anyone who intends to work in the administration of a university or college. I do not give it five stars because it lacks examples from other countries, where cars are used less frequently than here in America.
Customer Reviews:
This is not a solutions manual........2006-11-10
This student solutions manual and study guide is practically worthless. It doesn't have solutions to even problems and only a handful of problems at all it also shows examples that you can find in the book already. A solutions manual should at least have answers to problems so when you work the problem you know whether you have done it correctly. This is a total waste of money.
Solution Manual.......2006-08-07
This solution manual works out all the problems at the end of the chapter that have a box around them. Also, has a useful review of each chapter, and includes important equations and concepts. Highly recommended study tool.
Poor.......2005-11-25
I found that this solutions manual wasn't worth the paper it was written on. I wish that they would print out a master solution manual that students can get for the other 90% of the problems. I have used it maybe twice during the duration of the course.
Learning with this manual causes negetive velocity (backwards).......2005-10-05
This is the most poorly written text I have ever used. I bought the student solutions manual also which I thought might help me understand the concepts, but to no avail, the solutions manual jumps from Problem #5 to #21 in one chapter?? Forget about the examples on the text they are totally confusing and don't show you how they arrived with the solution. I am no dummy. This book will make you have low self esteem, thats the way I felt. I have a physics tutor who also said this book makes physics even harder to understand. I trully feel sorry for the student that has to buy this book because the school requires it. I had to buy a bootleg CD with the teacher's solutions on it to fully understand this text! We shouldn't have to do that.
Book Description
The main objectives of this introductory physics book are twofold: to provide the student with a clear and logical presentation of the basic concepts and principles of physics, and to strengthen an understanding of the concepts and principles through a broad range of interesting applications to the real world. In order to meet these objectives, emphasis is placed on sound physical arguments and discussions of everyday experiences and observations. At the same time, we motivate the student through practical examples that demonstrate the role of physics in other disciplines. The sixth edition features new pedagogy in keeping with the findings in physics education research. The rich new pedagogy has been integrated within the framework of an established and reliable text, facilitating its use by instructors.The full COLLEGE PHYSICS text, which covers the standard topics in classical physics and 20th century physics, is divided into six parts. COLLEGE PHYSICS, VOLUME 2 covers three of those six parts, including electricity and magnetism (Part IV); properties of light and the field of geometric and wave optics (Part V); and an introduction to special relativity, quantum physics, and atomic and nuclear physics (Part VI).
Customer Reviews:
It wasn't terrible........2006-04-30
4-30-06
I used 7th ed vol. 2 for an online physics course and it wasn't a terrible book. Most of the stuff in here is not at all intuitive, so the nature of the subject matter itself is difficult. You need to work problems to get this stuff in your head, and you have to be self-motivated to study if you're doing an online course. One criticism I have is that the "PhysicsNow" is worthless. They provide no explanation on the website.
If you are reading this review and you need the book, I'll send you the one I have if I still have it. E-mail me at scott340pd@email.com if you're interested. Give me time to check my email account, because this is one I don't use often.
Professors please spare your students.......2006-03-22
I don't think this book explains concepts very well and it's even worse at teaching how to build on them. Some of the questions at the end of the chapter are very complex but, for people whose last supporting math class was years ago, the chapter often lacks thoroughly worked up examples to help figure out how to build the equation.
In the questions at the end of each chapter there are several problems that have on line coaching at the PHYSICS NOW web site, indicated by the PHYSICS NOW icon. Very often the problems that are indicated in the book are not the ones coached on line.
Volume 2 is published as a separate book but it is really the second half of volume 1. Many of the concepts in volume 2 are dependent on concepts, equations and other data presented in volume 1, but the book lacks an index containing this important information for those who took the first semester long enough ago to have sold the book. DO NOT BUY VOLUME 2 UNLESS YOU HAVE ACCESS TO A FIRST SEMESTER BOOK.
This book is worthless.......2005-12-16
I used this book for my physics class and I totally hate it. We will be using it again for next semester and I wish they would use a different one. If you are a teacher, please save your studernts from the headache! pick a better book!
Waste of Money.......2005-10-09
Do not waste your money on this textbook! Even the most basic concepts are poorly explained. Examples are random and rarely help to reinforce the lesson. You can find a much better physics book for a fraction of the price. I can't believe they published this book!!
less than one star... but since there's no zero.......2004-03-12
This is one of the poorest books I've ever used for learning any subject. This is simply NOT GOING TO WORK if you learn by reading/studying, rather than in class.
I already have a college degree, and I've read thousands of books, and studied from many. Rarely have I found a book this thick that has so little
1) EXPLANATION OF CORE CONCEPTS,
or
2) THOROUGHLY WORKED EXAMPLES OF PROBLEMS.
There is a lot of verbiage but that is all.
DO NOT WASTE TIME WITH THIS BOOK. Without a GOOD teacher, this book is beyond totally useless. With a teacher one can use this book for homework problems, but nothing more.
Since I am doing this as a pre-requisite for medical school, I am using the web and a number of other texts instead. I wish I could find a good thorough text though.
Book Description
The Student Solutions Manual provides worked-out solutions to the odd-numbered problems in the text.
Book Description
In the new Second Edition of College Physics, Peter Urone succeeds in carrying out several goals: to convey the concepts of physics and to help students build the analytical skills to apply them; to help students gain an appreciation for the underlying simplicity and unity in nature; and to impart a sense of the beauty and wonder found in the physical universe. To accomplish these goals, Urone blends coverage of the traditional topics with modern material; and familiar ideas from modern physics, such as the existence of atoms and the conversion of mass into energy, are incorporated early. Topics are introduced conceptually with a steady progression to precise definitions and analytical applications. The analytical aspect (problem solving) is tied back to the concept before moving on to another topic. Urone uses a four-part example and problem-solving mechanism to improve students' skills in solving problems, as well as understanding underlying concepts. The human, biological, and medical applications throughout the text are an important aspect of College Physics, Second Edition. By using human applications throughout the text, Urone encourages conceptual and analytical understanding of the material.
Customer Reviews:
A Book For The Student.......2002-06-12
This is the best written physics textbook for an introductory physics course at its mathematical level (precalculus) that I have ever seen. The author knows his audience and stays within their level without "dumbing down" the exposition of the subject.
The explanations of physics principles and the worked out examples have a clarity unmatched in any textbook I have ever seen. Paul Urone distinguishes himself from other authors by asking and answering the questions that first year physics can't ask because the depth of their knowledge is not great enough yet.
Peter Urone owes the world one more textbook on first year Physics; this one must include calculus. Without doubt, it will be
as effective for its audience as his "College Physics" with the
mathematics at the precalculus level.
Finally, no matter what textbook you are using, buy this book as
a companion.
College physics.......2000-12-18
This is truly one of the most student-friendly Physics textbooks that I have come across. The problems covered are well explained and there are plenty of examples, with references to real life, that help make Physics easy to understand. It covers all the necessary information needed to have you well prepared for the MCAT, or any other science test that requires Physics. Highly recommended!
Thanks for simplifying Physics.......2000-04-04
This is an excellent textbook. This book is easier to understand than my current textbook. I highly recommend it for everyone.
My advisor is trying to obtain a copy for the LRC that he is building
Book Description
For Chapters 15-30, this manual contains detailed solutions to approximately 12 problems per chapter. These problems are indicated in the textbook with boxed problem numbers. The manual also features a skills section, important notes from key sections of the text, and a list of important equations and concepts.
Product Description
A very handy tool to use with Blitzer's College Algebra 4th ed.
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