This textbook is extremely impressive when re-reading it. It teaches the student the core elements of physics of course, but it also teaches them how to solve more advanced problems using simple techniques. Even though a freshman (average) is not able to do triple integrals and differential equations, they are still allowed to work on physics problems of that caliber. This text has the ability to simply give you a lot of the math so the student can simply focus on the physics (assuming Algebra, Trig, and a little Calc). I would dare to say this is one of the best books ever written!!!! If someone knows some high school math then they can understand the universe around them much more, going from falling objects to motion of subatomic particles. Most books can not do this and most physics texts get bogged down in math problems. Even in my upper level classes, for the most part, we were just doing more advanced versions of these problems and sometimes I was even able to solve advanced problems using the simple techniques in this book.
However, some topics are lacking. The Thermo section is very small and the student can only do very contrived problems. No other book on the market today can match the 30-year success of Halliday, Resnick and Walker’s Fundamentals of Physics!

Fundamentals of Physics, 7th Edition and the Extended Version, 7th Edition offer a solid understanding of fundamental physics concepts, helping readers apply this conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving, in a breezy, easy-to-understand style. A unique combination of authoritative content and stimulating applications.
* Numerous improvements in the text, based on feedback from the many users of the sixth edition (both instructors and students)
* Several thousand end-of-chapter problems have been rewritten to streamline both the presentations and answers
* ‘Chapter Puzzlers’ open each chapter with an intriguing application or question that is explained or answered in the chapter
* Problem-solving tactics are provided to help beginning Physics students solve problems and avoid common error
* The first section in every chapter introduces the subject of the chapter by asking and answering, “What is Physics?” as the question pertains to thechapter.
* Numerous supplements available to aid teachers and students.

The extended edition provides coverage of developments in Physics in the last 100 years, including: Einstein and Relativity, Bohr and others and Quantum Theory, and the more recent theoretical developments like String Theory.
I wont have added this to my good reads list here had it not been this beautiful a book. I hate physics but the book makes me love it. Reading it, i came to believe, some gifted physicists writing books make you laugh with their wonderful sense of humor when the subject torments you. I’ve never read a reference book as magnificent as this one.

This was my first real physics textbook ever, so I’ve refrained from reviewing it, fearing that my nostalgia will could my objective thinking. But the time has come for me to share my thoughts.

I gave Fundamentals of physics 4 stars a long time ago, in the spur of the moment. However, I won’t change my mark now, for my feelings haven’t changed. It’s a great book for a beginner in real physics, for kids who have enrolled in an undergrad physics program and found out the not so pleasant truth: that all that they have learned in high school about physics was just a nice story, a set of approximations given to them just to inform them there exists something like physics. So in that sense, this book is excellent for bridging that gap between high school physics, and the real deal. There are questions that open each chapter, with the purpose to make the student think in terms of physics. The text of each chapter is done well – it’s very easy to follow, and coupled with pictures and illustrations, it makes a very sweet read. The solved examples are a great help to students just starting out and trying to catch all the mathematical intricacies, and a myriad of exercises that accompany each chapter will certainly make a diligent student proficient in solving them. I also loved the fact that some of the exercises had solutions available.

All in all, it’s great for people just getting the hang of it. Those who are already well acquainted with physics won’t see what the big deal is, but I’m sure that they will also find some didactic value in Fundamental of Physics-I textbook.

There is one small downside; or rather a complaint of mine. While the parts concerning Mechanics, Electro (statics & dynamics) and Waves & optics were thorough and detailed, I felt there was too little of Thermodynamics in there. But that’s not necessarily bad; that’s, incidentally, the last of the General physics courses, so the student is, at that stage, able to find another textbook. But that doesn’t detract nothing from my grade; it’s going to stay a solid five stars.