About This Textbook
Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students. This is the first of two textbooks for this course.
Author
Jeffrey W. Schnick
Publish Date
2005
Level
Undergraduate
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Ioulia Kvasnikova, Douglas College
Not all the important concepts are illustrated with the examples. Good description of cross and scalar products. Nice free body diagrams for Statics. End of the chapter problems would be nice. Overall the text is unusable as is. „
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Jennifer Kirkey, Douglas College
Before I would consider adopting this book for my first year college course it would need a lot of additional background material to match what most of my students bring to my first year course. It needs more in the first mathematical chapter, specifically a mu„
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Erfan Rezaie, Capilano University
As the author states, this is indeed a "starting point" for an introductory calculus-based physics course. It certainly leaves out many details that many denser, more traditional textbooks contain and it would perhaps be useful to use one of those traditional„