Physics / Edition 6

A book I will burn with glee :)

I am currently using this text in Physics 201 General College Physics and I have found it to be poorly written and to be of little to no use what so ever. For example in chapter two in the middle of an expiation of average velocity the author takes a paragraph to inform us that 'The great strength of physics as a science lies in the fact that it builds a coherent understanding of nature through the development of interrelated concepts.' This is true; however, its¿ inappropriate placement disrupts the reader¿s flow of thought and reduces the effectiveness of the explanation. Furthermore, the text relies too heavily on example problems with little expiation of the concepts. This limits its effectiveness as a college level text where it is sometimes necessary for the text to stand as the sole source of information to the student.

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The best book ever

This book was so helpful to me understanding Physics. It had color inside and pictures to help me understand Physics. Horray Keeneth Jhonson!!!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

This book might as well be written in greek

We used this text book for my AP physics class, and this book was very confusing and hard to understand without the guidance of my teacher. Many of the pictures in the book seemed to be random and were sad attempts to attract the attention of teenagers. (What rap singer, Lauren Hill, has to do with physics is beyond me!!) The example problems were well explained, but I did not feel very prepared for the Advance Placement exam after using this book.

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This book deserves 10 stars.

If you don't understand physics, then get this book. This book is set up correctly too! You can't mix kinematics in two and three dimensions, but most books do. This book does not. I have not read a better physics textbook in my life. Cutnell and Johnson really outdid themselves. I am very impressed and I know you will be to. I help my teachers review textbooks for adoption. Believe me, this is the best physics book I have come across.

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Decent, but sometimes lacking

Easy to read with mostly good examples. Gives a fairly good grounding in the math concepts involved in the physics. Some of the examples and concepts could be better explained, and it does assume a fairly high level of previous experience with general physics concepts and algebra/geometry. Overall, I would reccomend it, but not for people who are not comfortable with having to fill in a few gaps themselves.

Oh no not another bad written book.

I did not like the book, simply because the book examples did not prepare you for the hard problems in the back of the book. The concepts were not explained good enough. It seemed that the author was speaking to another physicist when explaining the concepts. Alot of 'non-physics' material was expected without no warning. For example, the sine theta divided by cosine thetais equal to tangent theta. I wanted to enjoyed the book because physics can truly get a person curious about their surroundings. I am sad to say that this book did not get it's point across.

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