College Physics, Volume 1: Chapters 1-16

by Hugh D. Young, Robert M. Geller

For more than five decades, Sears and Zemansky's College Physics has provided the most reliable foundation of physics education for students around the world. For the Eighth Edition, Robert Geller joins Hugh Young to produce a comprehensive update of this benchmark text.

A broad and thorough introduction to physics, this new edition carefully integrates many solutions from educational research to help students to develop greater confidence in solving problems

Genres: Textbooks

544 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 2005

About the author

Hugh David Young was an American physicist who taught physics for 52 years at Carnegie Mellon University. Young is best known for co-authoring the later editions of University Physics, a highly regarded introductory physics textbook, with Francis Weston Sears and Mark W. Zemansky (this book — first published in 1949 — is often referred to as "Sears and Zemansky", although Hugh Young became a coauthor in 1973).

Reviews

[Brad Mclaws · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a textbook on physics. Enough said.