Sears & Zemansky's College Physics 9th Edition

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I had to rebuy this book after selling the one I had for my class last year. I was able to find this one and it was the most resonably listed price posted on the entire site for a used book in such good condition.

No tears, worn pages, front cover was in mint condition. And i rented it, thought for sure it'd be doodled on, have teeth marks and etc., but it's fine. Info in the text is awesomely complex. Maybe because this is my first physics text.

First off, I have a math calculus background and ZERO physics background.So far I've read up to 5 chapters and I feel like I don't understand a thing about physics. The book mentions a lot about later in this chapter of so and so, we will learn this. Okay we get it, you don't have to mention that in 4 chapters in a row. The practice problems aren't so clear and doesn't show examples step by step. They introduced a lot of formulas, but not in an organize order. This book assigns a s*** ton of physics problems as well, so check out ratemyprofessor.com to see if your professor gives out a lot of homework, if so, prepare to do a lot of work.My college is pretty notorious for picking out terrible books for students to learn and this one is by far the worst I've ever read. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with this stupid book for 2 more quarters.I'm not sure if it's an requirement for you guys to take masteringphysics as well, but buying this book brand new will not give you a code to redeem it, so I had to pay extra money for that code. Masteringphysics is an okay learning tool, but I prefer watching youtube videos to learn, but I can't find any good mentors yet. If you guys have any recommendations, please let me know!Personally, if I knew that my professor doesn't use this book in his class at all, I will not pick this up. It's a huge book that I don't bother carrying to my class anymore and it's a terrible self-learning tool.

Pretty easy to understand within the text. I just don't like that you have to buy a separate product (the answer book) to see more worked out problems. It does give some odd number problem answers in the back, but it does not show how those answers were found. This leads to the student sitting there wondering where they went wrong and no guidance to help them through it. I did like that there was an abundance of practice problems within each chapter so it did help some.

From reading the past reviews, I thought this book would be too complicated and I would be so lost in lecture. It turns out that the book so far is surprisingly really good! The reading is not so hard and there's plenty of examples and problems you can use to practice. The end of chapter summaries help to clarify concepts and each example gives a breakdown of how to solve the problem and adds commentary as to how the answer makes sense according to physics concepts.

This package included a brand new book and online access code with ebook for a very cheap deal!! Normally a used book would be around 100 dollars + the access code for 95 with the ebook. I would definitely recommend get this deal.

The book came right on time and came in perfect condition. It was in bubble wrap and also shrink wrapped for ultimate protection. It also had the Mastering Physics which brings the etext along with it! the price was completely worth it!