Product Description

No other book on the market today can match the success of Halliday, Resnick and Walker′s Fundamentals of Physics! In a breezy, easy–to–understand style the book offers a solid understanding of fundamental physics concepts, and helps readers apply this conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving.  The extended edition provides coverage of developments in Physics in the last 100 years, including:  Einstein and Relativity, Bohr and others and Quantum Theory, and the more recent theoretical developments like String Theory.  This book offers a unique combination of authoritative content and stimulating applications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75228 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1216 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent textbook
This was the recommended reading for my 1st year undergraduate astrophysics degree. Everything is clearly explained step by step. Equations are clearly highlighted. There are sample problems and solutions throughout, and each chapter ends with a series of questions, all have answers. Each chapter also begins with a real life physics situation, from going over the Niagra Falls in a barrel to Jimi Hendrix's electric guitar, which is quite fun. I defininately wouldn't recommend it for the general reader, as they might get put off by all the maths. But if you want to know the actual workings of the physical world, then this is definitely useful.

A Very Good Textbook
Halliday, Resnick and Walker's Fundamentals of Physics was the textbook recommended to all us first year physics students at Edinburgh Uni, and unlike other recommended texts, this one was a very worthwhile investment.

Costing £30 odd-pounds new and being bigger and heavier than the phone book, the Bible and the Koran all put together, it may be a bit off-putting initially. However, it covers practically all subjects that come up in first year general physics (eg kinematics, wave phenomena, quantum theory) and in an accessible format, with examples and test questions.

Crucially, this is a textbook that is also relevant for material covered in later years, and is also ideal for keeping for future reference to help remind you about all the things you were supposed to have learned ages ago. Definitely worth getting!

Awkward
This book refers to digrams with designations such as fig 26-3 b). You spend so much time trying to find where you are in the text, that you dont take the actual science in. I myself like short and sweet explaintions, to which I can build on later in the year before the exam.