University Physics with Modern Physics

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The gray Example box is especially well put-together. In each box, there is a question, strategy, solution, and significance section. This is consistent throughout the text, although very few times the significance part is left out. The presentation of the text is clear and follows a typical sequence of subjects in standard introductory physics textbooks. Nice aspects of its organization are: Once I increased the text size, the online version was fairly easy to read. Sometimes I did not care much for the format, layout, text-to-space ratios, etc, but those may be different in the pdf version. Some of the photo figures likewise do not seem to be neatly formatted.

For a university physics course focus on electricity and magnetism, the content is similar to most of the textbooks in the market. The contents presented in this textbook are up-to-date and require a minimum amount of updates. Of all my years in academia, this one remains unparalleled. The examples taken are highly intuitive and very much relatable.

The topic is culturally neutral and has no offensive terms used in it. And it attempts to use female and male genders in problems, although one example had them mixed up. The textbook is very well organized with all sections clearly marked and numbered. The end of chapter problems are also clearly divided corresponding to each section that is covered in the chapter. I would also suggest buying the solutions manual because the end-of-book answers only have the odd numbered exercises, and often times, when doing the harder problems it is best to know what strategy was used to solve it in case you have a hard time solving it. The concepts are clearly explained with sometimes good examples to go with them. The text is easy to read. For a student took calculus courses, there is no difficulty of understanding the mathematics used in the examples and the equations. No issues here. The OpenStax folks have their game together. Figures are clear and well-labeled. The online interface, which I prefer over the PDF, is easy to use.

This book is decent from what I remember, but if your required text is good then I don't think I would bother spending a lot of money on it. I used it a fair bit during my first year E&M class (it was the required text), but I actually ended up donating it to someone a few months ago because I hadn't touched it since. I did not notice anything offensive, however there did not appear to be a significant representation of a variety of ethnicities represented in graphics and diagrams. Gender representation was somewhat more level. I did not read every chapter problem.

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The content of the text is up to date and the open source nature of the text makes it easier to update than traditional texts.