Imatge de l'autor

Raymond A. Serway

Autor/a de Physics for Scientists and Engineers

59 obres 1,750 Membres 3 Ressenyes

Sobre l'autor

Raymond A. Serway is Physics Professor Emeritus at James Madison University, Virginia. (Bowker Author Biography)
Crèdit de la imatge: Ray Serway

Obres de Raymond A. Serway

College Physics (1985) 368 exemplars
Modern Physics (1989) 110 exemplars
Principles of Physics (1994) 100 exemplars
College Physics, Volume 1 (1997) 30 exemplars
Essentials of College Physics (2006) 13 exemplars
College Physics, Volume 2 (1998) 12 exemplars
College Physics, Study Guide (1992) 10 exemplars
Holt Physics Teacher's Edition (1999) 8 exemplars
Física (1901) 5 exemplars
Physics (2007) 4 exemplars
Introduction to Modern Physics (1989) 2 exemplars
Physique (1991) 1 exemplars
Ie Essentials of College Phys (2006) 1 exemplars
Física (1984) 1 exemplars
Physics fundamentals (2012) 1 exemplars

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Coneixement comú

Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Educació
Utica College of Syracuse University (AAS, BA)
University of Colorado (MS)
Illinois Institute of Technology (PhD)
Professions
Professor
Organitzacions
James Madison University
Clarkson University
Sigma Pi Sigma
Premis i honors
Madison Scholar Award (James Madison University, 1990)
Distinguished Teaching Award (Clarkson University, 1977)
Alumni Achievement Award (Utica College, 1985)
Biografia breu
Raymond A. Serway received his doctorate at Illinois Institute of Technology and is Professor Emeritus at James Madison University. In 1990, he received the Madison Scholar Award at James Madison University, where he taught for 17 years. Dr. Serway began his teaching career at Clarkson University, where he conducted research and taught from 1967 to 1980. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at Clarkson University in 1977 and the Alumni Achievement Award from Utica College in 1985. As Guest Scientist at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland, he worked with K. Alex Müller, 1987 Nobel Prize recipient. Dr. Serway also was a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, where he collaborated with his mentor and friend, Sam Marshall. Dr. Serway is the coauthor of PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS, 4e; PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS, 7e; ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PHYSICS; MODERN PHYSICS, 3e; and the high school textbook PHYSICS, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. In addition, Dr. Serway has published more than 40 research papers in the field of condensed matter physics and has given more than 60 presentations at professional meetings. Dr. Serway and his wife Elizabeth enjoy traveling, playing golf, gardening, singing in the church choir, and spending quality time with their four children and eight grandchildren.

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This was a decent book, but not great. My main issues with it were:

1.) I prefer more concise, math-first presentations for physics. This book had too many pictures; it had many small diagrams and "active figures" surrounded by description, but few large diagrams with e.g. concise descriptions, math in the text, etc.) Wasted space, and distracting!

2.) I wished that e.g. Maxwell's equations had both the integral AND vector/differential forms were given; this book doesn't go over the differential form, which is pretty darn standard.

I carried this book around a lot, so let me re-stress how important it is to be concise. That said, I did like many example problems in the text, with discussions of how to solve, etc (I actually wished there were a few harder ones.)
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dcunning11235 | Aug 12, 2023 |
This is easily one of the most interesting books I have ever read. I wish that every person on the face of the earth could take a modern physics class, and this book is the perfect companion. It gives a wonderful historical account of modern physics, giving you each of the bits of experimental evidence as they became available to the scientists of the day and allowing you to see exactly how we have come to understand the universe the way we do. Perhaps the best part about this method is that you get to spend a little bit of time studying a lot of different topics. You get to see all the important introductory parts of relativity, quantum mechanics,nuclear physics, and the rest without getting bogged down in all the details that make dedicated courses in those topics so difficult and time consuming. Truly, I wish everyone could study this. Alas, it will prove quite difficult if you haven't had introductory physics in mechanics, electromagnetism, and optics.… (més)
 
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barriboy | Jan 25, 2016 |
Absolutely the best physics textbook I encountered in my whole university career. The explanations were clear, with a good number of examples to learn from.
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solitude1984 | Mar 15, 2008 |

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Obres
59
Membres
1,750
Popularitat
#14,701
Valoració
½ 3.4
Ressenyes
3
ISBN
344
Llengües
5

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