Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition 12th Edition

I taught physics at a small liberal arts college for thirty-seven years. During that period I taught our non-calculus introductory course at least fifteen times. I sort of recommended earlier editions of this book, with caveats about notation and units. English units showed up in the earliest editions, for example. I'm happy to say that were I teaching that course today, I would add this volume to the required texts. It uniformly uses, carefully, common notation and sticks to SI units. I have not gone through this book in detail (that would be pretty boring), but I looked at a representative sample of chapters and of problems. Professor Hecht has done a fine job of consistently aligning his text with current usage and conventions. The worked problems I examined have solutions that are reasonably detailed and quite clear. In addition, the flex cover and binding represent useful improvements over earlier editions. I think that both students and instructors of non-calculus introductory college physics, as well as high-school physics, will find this volume worth having at hand.

Great “Book”Great PriceGreat Review for college Physics course 101/102Well presented TopicsHighly recommended

The book has many typographical errors that make it difficult to follow, especially in formulas. In previous editions those errors did not exist..

This is a solid study guide but beware that it requires some knowledge of trigonometry to solve many of the problems. Simple stuff like Sin and Cosine but it is there and not simple for someone with no trig background. Very helpful otherwise.

As is usual for all the Schaum's Outlines there is a good breadth of problems covered and solutions are step-by-step easy to follow.

Good book for highschool students learning physics

I would read this after my college physics course and it would help with understanding the concepts and the problems that were assigned. Don't know if it will help you but it helped me. Got a B out of the course. Might of gotten an A if I could make sense out of some of the concepts.

Sometimes a student needs a different view of problems. This has helped me a lot and in some ways is better than my text book. Heck, the professor prefers other books over the textbook.