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الفيزياء : المبادئ والتطبيقات
بذل مؤلف هذا الكتاب جهداً موسوعيّاً كبيراً في جمع مبادئ وتطبيقات علم الفيزياء بأوضح صورةٍ ممكنة، وقدمها للقارئ من خلال تبويب ذكي، وفهرسة واضحة وملحقات وتجارب، تسهل الفهم وتثري البحث .
وزعت صفحات الكتاب التي بلغت 945 صفحة على 33 باباً تبدأ بتوطئة لتعريف طبيعة علم الفيزياء وعلاقتها مع المجالات الأخرى. ثم ينتقل لعلم الحركة وتطبيقاتها، ليبحر بعد ذلك في كل الظواهر الفيزيائية ومتصلاتها، من مثل الطاقة والموائع والصوت والحرارة والاهتزازات والموجات والشحنات الكهربائية وغيرها، ما يتيح الفهم العميق للمفاهيم الأساسية للفيزياء في جميع جوانبها، ويستخدم النص تطبيقات مثيرة للاهتمام لعلم الأحياء، والطب، والهندسة المعمارية، والتكنولوجيا الرقمية.
دوغلاس س. جيانكولي يُعدّ مرجعاً موثوقاً اليوم في العالم بمجال الفيزياء، اعتمد في مؤلفه الموسوعي هذا على العرض الواضح واستخدام الملاحظات والتجارب الملموسة، بادئاً من التفاصيل، منتقلاً إلى النظريات الكبرى ليفسر للقراء السؤال الشهير: لماذا نحن نصدق ما نعتقد؟ وملخصاً الكتاب بوصفه الكتاب الذي يساعدك على رؤية العالم من خلال عيون الذين يعرفون الفيزياء.
وزعت صفحات الكتاب التي بلغت 945 صفحة على 33 باباً تبدأ بتوطئة لتعريف طبيعة علم الفيزياء وعلاقتها مع المجالات الأخرى. ثم ينتقل لعلم الحركة وتطبيقاتها، ليبحر بعد ذلك في كل الظواهر الفيزيائية ومتصلاتها، من مثل الطاقة والموائع والصوت والحرارة والاهتزازات والموجات والشحنات الكهربائية وغيرها، ما يتيح الفهم العميق للمفاهيم الأساسية للفيزياء في جميع جوانبها، ويستخدم النص تطبيقات مثيرة للاهتمام لعلم الأحياء، والطب، والهندسة المعمارية، والتكنولوجيا الرقمية.
دوغلاس س. جيانكولي يُعدّ مرجعاً موثوقاً اليوم في العالم بمجال الفيزياء، اعتمد في مؤلفه الموسوعي هذا على العرض الواضح واستخدام الملاحظات والتجارب الملموسة، بادئاً من التفاصيل، منتقلاً إلى النظريات الكبرى ليفسر للقراء السؤال الشهير: لماذا نحن نصدق ما نعتقد؟ وملخصاً الكتاب بوصفه الكتاب الذي يساعدك على رؤية العالم من خلال عيون الذين يعرفون الفيزياء.
1034 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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April 27, 2022TECHNICALLY I AM DONE WITH THIS. SLAY. MY OFFICIAL REVIEW? HONESTLY A SOLID 2.756/5. I UNDERSTOOD NONE OF THE CONCEPTS THIS DID NOT DO A GOOD JOB OF EXPLAINING STUFF BUT HOLY HECK I HAVE NEVER HAD A BOOK WITH MORE THOROUGH SOLUTION GUIDES THAN THIS. SAVED MY ASS FOR THE HW TBH. goodbye giancoli, may we never meet again.
July 28, 2021
1 star for my score on the ap exam
April 4, 2024
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May 26, 2018
It is safe to say that Physics: Principles with Applications is, by far, the most comprehensive non-calculus physics textbook. I am currently reading this book and it has been fantastic. The author explains things in clear detail and provides quality problems at the end of each chapter.
One thing D. Giancoli could add is a separate solutions manual for the book instead of giving just the answers to the odd-numbered problems.
One thing D. Giancoli could add is a separate solutions manual for the book instead of giving just the answers to the odd-numbered problems.
May 3, 2023
This book has my blood sweat and tears poured into it, literally! I would get really anxious when doing AP physics homework and pick at my nails until I bled on the pages. Sorry Swager!
March 18, 2025
Was gonna give it 1 star cause physics has become my most annoying final, alas they do explain the content quite well and I cannot spite the author on behalf of a mediocre professor!
May 22, 2025
Brilliant book, fantastic questions, sufficient to master fundamentals of physics.
October 30, 2013
Good as reference. The application can be understand easily...
May 26, 2026
I have only read a couple of other physics books on this level, so I don't have a great number of books for comparison. There's Young's book I had myself in college a long time ago, and there's the Serway book I used to teach more recently, for about three years, with supplemental material from the AP Physics text.
I teach physics to high school students for dual credit with a university.
So mostly this review will compare and contrast the Serway physics textbook with the Giancoli physics text. The Serway text was discontinued, and rather than devoting a lot of time myself to researching textbooks, I followed the university's decision to go with this text. I taught Giancoli for the first time this past schoolyear.
At a first glance - alright, maybe a deeper glance - the Serway text is more engaging and colorful. It had various items for parabolic motion including a kangaroo trying to hop a fence. Giancoli only had sports balls being thrown. How many different problems can we do involving a baseball?
On the other hand, the Giancoli text tends to give a clearer mathematical explanation. It included the thermal coefficient of linear and volume expansion equations and the radiation equations which the Serway text did not. To be honest, I didn't like that Serway just talked about thermal expansion without providing the equation because that equation is simple enough.
(A sidenote is that I have a couple dramatic real-world stories that are applications of thermal expansion.)
The Serway text uses simpler, easier to understand English, which might be expected of a high school text.
All the Giancoli problems are at the end of the chapter rather than appearing after each section as concepts arise.
There are fewer problems in the Giancoli text than the Serway text, and often we ran out of similar problems to do. So, sometimes I ended up creating my own inspired by those in the Serway text.
The Giancoli text is clearer on the difficulty level of the problem, using a simple system. The Giancoli text divides problems into three categories, 1-star being easiest, 2-stars being intermediate, and 3-stars being advanced. The Serway text did have various levels of difficulty, and divided them into basic, general, advanced, and engineering. However, they used what I called "spaghetti logic" (not a compliment) for determining what to teach. So, for ease of teaching organization, I consider the Giancoli more concise and clear.
I quickly learned that for the students, the advanced Giancoli problems were harder than the advanced Serway problems. In order to receive dual credit for the Serway text, we used the advanced & engineering sections. It makes sense that advanced college-level problems are harder than advanced high school-level problems. I ended up limiting my choices to the 1 and 2 star problems.
The Giancoli text had fewer typos and errors than the Serway text.
The Giancoli online answer key is nice for double-checking my own answers, but does little for the student who doesn't know where to begin. It does not show which equations are used or how to do the algebra to get them into the final form at which point numbers are substituted in for variables. I preferred my own answer key. To be fair, the Serway answer key was even worse, only suppling a number.
I could easily tell which students were using the Giancoli online answers because they had no idea why they'd written what they'd written when they only showed that stage after the algebraic manipulation. I started requring them to show which equations they were using and how they got there.
The Giancoli text did not come with any lab ideas or suggestions, whereas the Serway text came with more ideas that I could possibly use. Yes, I realize that one can glean such ideas from the internet, but it's nice to have them provided for you with the text.
One downside of getting lab ideas from elsewhere is that the order of the chapter topics differs between texts. Sometimes lab ideas will involve concepts from other chapters they haven't had yet. Giancoli places circular motion before work and energy; Serway places it after. The marble roller coaster lab I had the students do for the circular motion chapter (chapter 5) not only depends on them knowing about circular motion, but also about potential and kinetic energy (chapter 6). They need enough potential energy in their system so that the marble can obtain enough velocity to complete its vertical loop.
In summary, I would prefer the Giancoli text over the Serway text for its mathematical clarity, its organizational clarity, and its absence of errors.
However, its lack of engaging English and its boring problems (no hopping kangaroos) are serious drawbacks when the topic of physics already gets an unfavorable reputation among students to begin with. Plus, its lack of coordinated lab ideas and its lack of explained steps in its answer key are real drawbacks.
Giancoli, can't you do better than this?
I teach physics to high school students for dual credit with a university.
So mostly this review will compare and contrast the Serway physics textbook with the Giancoli physics text. The Serway text was discontinued, and rather than devoting a lot of time myself to researching textbooks, I followed the university's decision to go with this text. I taught Giancoli for the first time this past schoolyear.
At a first glance - alright, maybe a deeper glance - the Serway text is more engaging and colorful. It had various items for parabolic motion including a kangaroo trying to hop a fence. Giancoli only had sports balls being thrown. How many different problems can we do involving a baseball?
On the other hand, the Giancoli text tends to give a clearer mathematical explanation. It included the thermal coefficient of linear and volume expansion equations and the radiation equations which the Serway text did not. To be honest, I didn't like that Serway just talked about thermal expansion without providing the equation because that equation is simple enough.
(A sidenote is that I have a couple dramatic real-world stories that are applications of thermal expansion.)
The Serway text uses simpler, easier to understand English, which might be expected of a high school text.
All the Giancoli problems are at the end of the chapter rather than appearing after each section as concepts arise.
There are fewer problems in the Giancoli text than the Serway text, and often we ran out of similar problems to do. So, sometimes I ended up creating my own inspired by those in the Serway text.
The Giancoli text is clearer on the difficulty level of the problem, using a simple system. The Giancoli text divides problems into three categories, 1-star being easiest, 2-stars being intermediate, and 3-stars being advanced. The Serway text did have various levels of difficulty, and divided them into basic, general, advanced, and engineering. However, they used what I called "spaghetti logic" (not a compliment) for determining what to teach. So, for ease of teaching organization, I consider the Giancoli more concise and clear.
I quickly learned that for the students, the advanced Giancoli problems were harder than the advanced Serway problems. In order to receive dual credit for the Serway text, we used the advanced & engineering sections. It makes sense that advanced college-level problems are harder than advanced high school-level problems. I ended up limiting my choices to the 1 and 2 star problems.
The Giancoli text had fewer typos and errors than the Serway text.
The Giancoli online answer key is nice for double-checking my own answers, but does little for the student who doesn't know where to begin. It does not show which equations are used or how to do the algebra to get them into the final form at which point numbers are substituted in for variables. I preferred my own answer key. To be fair, the Serway answer key was even worse, only suppling a number.
I could easily tell which students were using the Giancoli online answers because they had no idea why they'd written what they'd written when they only showed that stage after the algebraic manipulation. I started requring them to show which equations they were using and how they got there.
The Giancoli text did not come with any lab ideas or suggestions, whereas the Serway text came with more ideas that I could possibly use. Yes, I realize that one can glean such ideas from the internet, but it's nice to have them provided for you with the text.
One downside of getting lab ideas from elsewhere is that the order of the chapter topics differs between texts. Sometimes lab ideas will involve concepts from other chapters they haven't had yet. Giancoli places circular motion before work and energy; Serway places it after. The marble roller coaster lab I had the students do for the circular motion chapter (chapter 5) not only depends on them knowing about circular motion, but also about potential and kinetic energy (chapter 6). They need enough potential energy in their system so that the marble can obtain enough velocity to complete its vertical loop.
In summary, I would prefer the Giancoli text over the Serway text for its mathematical clarity, its organizational clarity, and its absence of errors.
However, its lack of engaging English and its boring problems (no hopping kangaroos) are serious drawbacks when the topic of physics already gets an unfavorable reputation among students to begin with. Plus, its lack of coordinated lab ideas and its lack of explained steps in its answer key are real drawbacks.
Giancoli, can't you do better than this?
September 5, 2017
I want to see the book if this book is good or not
June 10, 2018
Amazing book
July 4, 2021
It's good book
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October 4, 2023
made me cry, didn’t understand a thing
May 9, 2024
This book made me very sad.
July 24, 2024
Best book there has ever been.
January 29, 2026
Book does a good job explaining some topics. Would not read again.
February 9, 2026
addio fisica
July 2, 2007
This book presents the material quite clearly -- provides a great explanation to historically daunting material, making it easier to grasp.
The class in which I am reading it, though... 3 quarters of Physics in 8 weeks does not a good foundation make.
The class in which I am reading it, though... 3 quarters of Physics in 8 weeks does not a good foundation make.
March 29, 2008
ini buku tpb juga, kami biasanya nyebut "buku giancoli", hiksss.... buku yang sangat menyeramkan, fisika..oh fisika..
Enak dibaca dan mudah dimengerti kalau suka fisika, kalau ga suka, ya cuma enak dibaca aja..hahhahaha
Enak dibaca dan mudah dimengerti kalau suka fisika, kalau ga suka, ya cuma enak dibaca aja..hahhahaha
July 18, 2007
Q: How do you teach physics without using calculus?
A: This book.
A: This book.
November 9, 2007
bahasanya mudah dimengerti, aplikatif, gampang, cetakannya bagus, contoh soalnya mudah diikutin tapi luar biasa, jau2 lebih bagus daripada buku bikinan Sutrisno dari institut tetangga sebelah..
May 17, 2008
Anyone a physics person?! I am severely struggling. I've never been much of a science/math girl...
July 21, 2008
I hate math therefore I hate physics.
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July 14, 2009giancoli 3rd
February 7, 2010
And this is the reason I'm not reading anything else...
May 28, 2012
Really not great. At all. Am depending on other texts to explain things more clearly and concisely.
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February 21, 2014I am looking for ebook
September 6, 2015
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