- Fundamentals of Physics
"Fundamentals of Physics" is a
calculus basedphysics textbook by David Halliday,Robert Resnick , andJearl Walker (author of "The Flying Circus of Physics "). The textbook is currently in its ninth edition and is published in a five-volume set. The current version is a revised version of the original textbook "Physics" by Halliday and Resnick, first published in 1960. It is widely used incollege s as part of theundergraduate physics courses, and has been well-known toscience andengineering students for decades as "the gold standard" offreshman -level physics texts. 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.The textbook covers most of the basic topics in physics:
*Mechanics
*Wave s
*Thermodynamics
*Electromagnetism
*Optics
*Special Relativity The extended edition also contains introductions to topics such as
Quantum Mechanics ,Atomic Theory ,Solid State Physics ,Nuclear Physics andCosmology .A Student Solutions Manual and Student Study Guide are also available.References
*citation
first = Joseph | last = Amato
title = The introductory calculus-based physics textbook
journal = Physics Today
date = December 1996
pages = 46–51
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first = Simon | last = Bates
title = Review of Fundamentals of Physics
journal = Physical Sciences Educational Reviews
volume = 5 | issue = 2 | year = 2004
url = http://www.physsci.heacademy.ac.uk/Publications/Journal/journ5_2.pdf.*citation
first = Marcelo Samuel | last = Berman
title = Misconceptions in Halliday, Resnick and Walker's textbook
id = arXiv|archive=physics|id=0507110.*citation
first1 = Eunsook | last1 = Kim
first2 = Sung-Jae | last2 = Pak
title = Students do not overcome conceptual difficulties after solving 1000 traditional problems
journal = American Journal of Physics
volume = 70 | issue = 7 | year = 2002 | pages = 759–765
doi = 10.1119/1.1484151.
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