Physics 101 - Alternate Texts

There are a wide variety of Physics texts available that cover the same topics as our text (Fishbane, Gasiorowicz and Thornton), at about the same level. You may find that you prefer the style or explanations in one or more of these to our text, so you may want to look at a few of them. This is also a good way to find more worked example problems!

Note: This list is not, by any means, exhaustive, and is restricted to texts that I have looked at in some detail. Some are available in the Physics library, some in Swem, some in both...

• ``Physics for Scientists and Engineers'': Paul A. Tipler
     (Worth) (QC21.2 .T549 1991)
• ``Fundamentals of Physics'': Halliday, Resnick and Walker   
     (Wiley) (QC21.2 .H35 1997); also earlier editions by Halliday and Resnick (QC21.2 .H35 1981...)
  
• ``Physics for Scientists and Engineers'': Lerner
     (Jones and Bartlett) (QC21.2 .L47 1996)
  
• ``Physics for Scientists & Engineers'': Serway   
     (Saunders) (QC23 .S458 1992)
  
• ``Physics for Students of Science and Engineering'': Stanford and Tanner   
     (Academic Press) (QC21.2.S68 1985)
  
• ``University Physics'': Hudson and Nelson  
     (Saunders)   (QC21.2 .H83 1990)
  
• ``University Physics'': Sears, Zemansky, and Young    
     (Addison-Wesley)   (QC21.2 .S36 1987)
  
• ``University Physics'': Arfken, Griffing, Kelly, Priest  
     (G. Brown) (QC23 .U75 1984)