Physics Giancoli,Sixth Edition

I needed a text to review physics in preparation for the state licensing exam. I went online to find reviews and Giancoli was the top rated for non calculus based AP physics. I also used Holt and Cutnell and Johnson. I found Giancoli to be the best of them. Concepts are fully explained with no corners cut. Towards the end of chapters they often have real world application examples. There are many problems that get systematically more difficult and are rated by difficulty so that it is easy to find beginner, intermediate and advanced problems. Solutions are provided for the odd numbered problems.I tutor so I generally use the book that the student's class is using. I find that I frequently turn to Giancoli for better problems and clearer examples to show the students. It is the best non-calculus text I have seen. I suppose the best indicator is that I enjoy using it. I don't find myself on guard for the next mistake or poor explanation or missing link in the thought chain. It is a pleasure to use.I found the other books lacking. Holt seemed to be a template to push teachers to purchase products and services. It is somewhat like Windows 8. It is clearly a product of too many MBAs and not enough educators. I am still trying to understand the appeal of Cutnell and Johnson. I find it has holes in the progression of the topic. It does not have the rigor of Giancoli.Regarding Hewitt and Halliday and Resnick. Hewitt deserves its fame as a great conceptual physics book. However I would like to see more problems included.I learned physics from the second edition of Halliday and Resnick. I recently used the 7th edition while working with a student. I am still getting to know this edition. What I like is that it is detailed and certainly has better and more examples than what I learned on. It also has more photos and color photos - a vast improvement :) So far so good. I will do a detailed comment on it after I have had more time.

First time to buy used book at Amazon. The book was delivered one day earlier. And the book condition is beyond my expectations.

This was an awesome deal, my college is charging an arm and a leg for the seventh edition. This is an updated 6th edition and basically the same exact book! It was $20 total and still smells new. great prices and timely shipping and perfect condition!

It is a book I hope a student reads. Few do. Books are still required in the class though. So this text matches the text used in the parallel college course nearby. So nearby university/college use was the guide to our purchase.A second plus was that we were able to buy the book new at an off campus bookstore for $112. This was a definite plus. It set the upper limit for what we were willing to pay.

I used this product as a required textbook for a College Physics course. I liked that the problems given in the book made sense and were possible to do with the information and formulas presented in class. I used a different textbook the next semester, and it was not as user-friendly!

The used book definitely in good acceptable condition as advertised. Happy with it.

I would have appreciated it if the seller would have been more honest about the condition of the book. Yes the pages were intact but the cover was about to fall off. The book was listed in good condition, I would say it is was over priced for the condition that I received it in, it was in "fair" condition at best. I would have sent it back but because my child had to start her college course, I didn't have time to do that. I will say this, the seller did send it out quickly and I received it much sooner than I expected. The seller had no other reviews when I purchased this book so I would only recommend they evalutate the condition better. I would most likely give them a second chance.

Great. Well written

Contains all the information I needed

good book for basics

Was the book described, in great shape, and arrived quickly without incident.For anyone out there who is not happy with only every second question having an answer in the back of the book, check out the app named Slader.

Very fast delivery. Nice job!

Very bad book.....Unexpressibley bad