Physics for Scientist and Engineers With Modern Physics

by Raymond A. Serway

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Genres: Physics, Science, Nonfiction, Engineering, Textbooks, School, Reference

1568 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1990

Reviews

[WarpDrive · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice walk down memory lane. A typical undergraduate physics textbook, covering not only all the major branches of classical physics, but also special relativity and quantum mechanics.
Generally well written, and furnished with plenty of interesting examples from engineering applications, especially in the area of electromagnetism.
Just don't bother to read the section on quantum mechanics - either the authors don't really know what they are talking about when it comes to the less introductory themes of the discipline or, in their effort to make the subject as simple as possible to an undergraduate student, they have oversimplified the whole subject matter to the point of confusion.
Apart from this issue, though, it is a good and solid undergraduate physics text, requiring only minimal mathematics knowledge (uni and multivariate calculus, a bit of linear algebra and basics of differential equations).
3.5 stars rounded up to 4.

[Ruba Aburub · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good informative book

[Dallas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This text is a lot of fun. I like that they added a detailed section for modern physics. Serway is a great compiler of physics.

[Jason]

Incredibly dense book written by Physicists for budding Physicists. High level overviews and examples followed by detailed exercises with very little guidance. I don't particularly care for it.

[Samuel · Rating 4 out of 5]

horrible end of chapter summaries.