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The University Physics book has the distinction from the College physics series to be complicated by calculus. This isn't the case. Calculus is a prominent topic when one studies kinematics and from then on, calculus isn't really a big deal. This book is the biggest book I have, for the simple fact, that there is an immense amount of material and also because they really take up a lot of space to discuss ideas. The highlight of this book is the modern physics portion, in which quantum mechanics, atomic physics, particle physics, relativity and cosmology is discussed. To me, the weakness of this book is fluid mechanics. However, there is quite enough on fluids if you want to take the MCAT, for example. There are a rich variety of problems that, when solved, allow you to pick up on certain tricks and learn different tools for attacking problems. Therefore, it is advised to pick up the solutions manual if you can. This is the only book I have in which the problem sets are just as valuable as the text.

SEARS AND ZEMANSKY’S

This is actually a pretty good physics book if you're just starting out. It has a ton of material and it goes fairly in-depth with most of the topics. My professor wasn't very good, and i so i was glad i was able to learn from the book alone. The practice problems are extremely useful and i really liked how they showed how to work them out in the textbook rather than trying to sell a separate solutions manual like so many publishers do. It's a good book and nice introduction to physics.

The set up and flow of each chapter is pretty much what I would hope for. Explanations range from adequate to excellent. The diagrams and graphics are very good and clear - excellent help for visualizing what is going on. My favorite part: the chapter summaries include distilled, categorized recaps of the mathematical relationships introduced during the chapter. Chapter reviews that are excellent for reviewing the chapter.

The one thing I find myself not loving is how often examples and chapter questions require the reader to flip pages back & forth, referring the reader back to a previous example, sometimes in a previous chapter, in order to obtain the given information and/or picture required for the current example/question. In all fairness, I can understand why the author did it. The book is already mammoth. I just prefer examples & questions to be self-contained, is all. A minor nuisance: not enough for me to downrate the book.

This book is very good. It provides clear examples and gives enough information to fully understand the subject matter. It has never let me down when I needed to understand something. On the other hand, it has an online homework website that is not as high in quality. The questions often haven't been proofread, the system often rounds too much so answers that are right are marked as incorrect so you have to work backwards from what they said was correct on previous steps to figure out the "correct" answer as far as their system is concerned. Occasionally, you have to modify your answer to be in a different form that is equivalent because the system tells you it is wrong even though it isn't. Not all is bad about the online portion though. It is helpful that it will give you hints when you get a wrong answer saying something like "mg must be part of your answer"