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Title: Terrible text book!
Review: Physics isn't the easiest subject to learn but this Giancoli text makes it look even more complicated than it is. The book is unnecessarily wordy. Very heavy on algebra but a bit light on the actual principles of physics, and many of the explanations and sample problems given in the chapters are nothing at all like the questions at the end of each chapter. Hard to believe this book is the choice of most physics professors. I found it frustrating. Would have been better if Giancoli would just get to the point instead of all those long paragraphs with a lot of useless information. Not a good book for beginning physics students. If you really want to learn physics get a different book to use as a supplement.
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