Customer Reviews:
 Good Book, PH212&213 March 24, 2009
Michael
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Doesn't come with the web code, but the text is pretty good at physics. A in the class, works for me!
 A Quantum Leap from the First Text May 17, 2009
Aaron Leclair
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Matter and Interactions series of physics texts, which we use for the physics lectures attended by biology, chemistry, physics, math, and computer science majors at my college, purport to taking a more unconventional pedagogical approach from standard college physics texts. The authors of this text, Chabay and Sherwood, have written mountains on how their approach is "different" - and from using the first in the series in my physics I course, I can say that it valiantly tries conceptually but doesn't prepare the student for problem solving.
Reading the second book in the text, covering classical Electricity and Magnetism, is a completely different story. With the exception of the chapters on circuits and the decision to culminate the semester with Gauss' law and the Ampere-Maxwell equations, the presentation in this text is fairly conventional, with most of the asides on special relativity being just that: asides. The number of worked examples is still paltry, but the slightly more mathematical flavor of the prose in this volume make the problems far more possible to attempt (exceptions being a couple questions earlier on in the text that are best done with Taylor Series, which are absent from the text).
As my experience with self-study from this text is nonexistent, I can't recommend or not recommend the text for such. But it does hold as a good reference for any course using the text.
 new?? January 13, 2009
Tae Sup Lee
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
the book does not have code for the internet access.
it is just a book only.
No code for webassign!!!
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