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Title: Is the purpose of a book to learn?
Review: I had Physics for Scientists and Engineers extended version for physics III. I thaught that the book was great because the pages seem very pictorial it seems very popular, since different parts of this book are sold separatley. However, the result of using this book for my first time was failing the class. The book was unreliable for independent study, in the sense that concepts are not clearley explained and the choice of word complicate more the understanding of the material. There are many equations in which the variables are not explained in the proceeding paragrahps, and the fanciness of the subcripts sometimes makes the equations confusing. The bottom line: it is not clearley written. There are a lot of derivations from line integrals and vector equations whose preceiding steps dont follow immediatley from its theory. The extended edition is too heavy, too big to carry with other books specifically when we deal with scientists and engineers . . .
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