Fundamentals of Physics, Chapters 1 - 21, Enhanced Problems Version

by David Halliday, Jearl Walker, Robert Resnick

No other text on the market today can match the success of Halliday, Resnick and Walker’s Fundamentals of Physics. This text continues to outperform the competition year after year, and the new edition will be no exception.  Intended for Calculus-based Physics courses, the 6th edition of this extraordinary text is a major redesign of the best-selling 5th edition, which still maintains many of the elements that led to its enormous success.  Jearl Walker adds his unique style to this edition with the addition of new problems designed to capture, and keep, students’ attention.  Nearly all changes are based on suggestions from instructors and students using the 5th edition, from reviewer comments, and from research done on the process of learning.  The primary goal of this text is to provide students with a solid understanding of fundamental physics concepts, and to help them apply this conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving. The principal goal of Halliday-Resnick-Walker is to provide instructors with a tool by which they can teach students how to effectively read scientific material and successfully reason through scientific questions. To sharpen this tool, the Enhanced Problems Version of the sixth edition of Fundamentals of Physics contains over 1000 new, high-quality problems that require thought and reasoning rather than simplistic plugging of data into formulas.

Genres: Science, Textbooks, Physics, Reference, Engineering

632 pages, Hardcover

First published May 2, 2000

About the author

David Halliday (March 3, 1916 – April 2, 2010) was an American physicist known for his physics textbooks, Physics and Fundamentals of Physics, which he wrote with Robert Resnick. Both textbooks have been in continuous use since 1960 and are available in more than 47 languages.

His Physics has been used widely and is considered to have revolutionized physics education by many. Now in its tenth edition in a two-volume set revised by Jearl Walker, and under the title Fundamentals of Physics, it is still highly regarded. It is noted for its clear standardized diagrams, very thorough but highly readable pedagogy, outlook into modern physics, and challenging, thought provoking problems. In 2002 the American Physical Society named the work the most outstanding introductory physics text of the 20th century.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Archit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fundamentals of Physics would benefit any student/teacher who wants to learn much about Physics. It has a comprehensive series of examples.

[Prakriti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cannot recommend this book enough. As a medical student, I still go back to the chapter on thermodynamics and entropy. One will not find too much information/formulae. This book will help you understand what physics is really about, how you should approach the subject, what your thought process should be, and it’s significance in everyday life. This book helped me differentiate between what I understood and appreciated, and what I did not. In it’s simplicity lies it’s strength.

[Sᴜᴊᴏɴ · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book helped me a lot to understand physics from the core.
It has a detail overview on theory and it also provide lot of practice problem.

Those problem helps me to prepare myself for competitive exams :")
And I love this book.

[Khalid Iqbal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice

[Adham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[W · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this book on amazon for three dollars and paid a hundred for the newer ebook. This book is worth so much more. The detailed solutions to problems were so helpful. This book is the main reason I passed my physics class. I'd definitely recommend to anyone.

[Ajinkya Ghorpade · Rating 5 out of 5]

my all basics of physics are from this book try it