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Title: Tipler is not worth it
Review: If you compare Tipler to the "Mechanical Universe", and "Beyond the Mechanical Universe" what you will notice is that Tipler has color and nice graphics (but not always clear to understand), however the Mechanical Universe books get the physics concepts across and after all that is the key - isn't it. Tipler is also confusing since it appears to be somewhere between Algebra based physics and Calculus based physics, where as the Mechanical Universe is Calculus based - which all physics text books at the college level should be. Tipler turns off good students to physics.
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