Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics

Great condition, great price! Arrived within 2 days of purchase! Pages in great condition, perfect for college students who don't want to pay the full price for a new one.

Very informative book for a reasonable price

This text does not include the final "physics" chapters 37-42. If you don't need those, then this is the text for you. If you do need those, keeping looking for this exact textbook (picture, edition) with the fine print "with modern physics" for those final chapters.

Incredible! It's a used book that looks close to brand new! There's only a slight dog earring at the top corner. I performed a fairly through skim thru the pages and all seemed to be intact and I saw no markings, highlight, etc. I'm happy with this book and it was worth the price for a non-digital 1250+ page Physics book! Thank you, Home of Books!

Easy to read textbook on college physics. It has nice summaries throughout with pearls you should know. My only complaint is that it is difficult to remember what each symbol represents. It should be easier to find.

The book has arrived earlier than I extpected. Thank you!

Abbreviated version: If you are a home educator and are determined to use this book, purchase it directly from the publisher. I don't recommend that.Context: We are academics. I have home educated for eight years and taught at the university level previously. We have high expectations of our resources and those that produce them.After significant research we purchased Physics: A Strategic Approach for Scientist and Engineers (4th ed.) and the accompanying workbook to aid in home educating our advanced tenth grader. The text is well-organized and thorough, although we expected more based on the reviews and other textbooks we have used in the past. My son has enjoyed the concepts and principles; he is one of the few who has deep appreciation for textbooks. He spent hours just lounge-reading it during the summer. When he dived into the student workbook, he felt like the problems were sufficient but didn't compare to the "fun" example problems in the text. (i.e. It's not as creative as Art of Problem Solving material--which we highly recommend). He learns well by working through the problems then comparing multiple ways it could have been solved otherwise.Here's our problem. We home educate. The workbook clearly states in the introduction that you can access the PDF solutions after purchase. In order to receive that PDF, though, Pearson (the publisher) requires that you be verified by an institution that they list in their drop-down menu. I spent hours with their customer service on the phone, via chat, and through email. Since I am not verified by an outsourced organization, they didn't believe that I could use the book. They continually sent me to their partner Savvas who generally works with homeschooling families--but only on high school and below material. Savvas did their best to aid us, but they didn't have access to the PDF or even the Physics book because it is university level. I explained this many times to Pearson, sent my order number, sample problems my son had completed, and even offered to sign an agreement to not share the PDF. I offered to write the agreement if needed. In the end, they told me that they wouldn't share the PDF because I hadn't bought it directly through them, wasn't verified, and didn't have my son enrolled in one of their classes.We are disappointed in how all of this was handled. I expect more from educational publishers. It took them almost a month to conclude that they couldn't help us. I'm frustrated that I spent so much time researching, spent almost $500 on this, and now have little positive to share aside from the book being sufficient, but not excellent.

I’m just going to review the actual content of the book and generally ignore the access code vs no access code issues in my rating. That said, I thought it would come with an access code and it didn’t, so it would have been helpful if that information was in the description.The book itself is very well written and teaches things in a very clear way. It is not a high-school level book so be prepared to read and re-read things to understand them. The concepts are taught in a very clear way as long as you have the math fundamentals.What I can’t forgive is typos in the answer key. I have wasted hours redoing my work only to discover that the answer key either has a small typo in the answer (7800N vs 780N) or that it accidentally gives the answer for another problem (ie. it says the answer is for #39 but is actually for #38). Typos in an answer key to me is ridiculous considering how many editions they’ve had to fix the issues. This also makes me always doubt the book for each answer I look up and defeats the purpose of having an answer key.Long story short, great content, crappy questions/answer key.