Physics 101 - Suggested Alternate Texts - Fall 2022
In case you would like to know about alternate textbooks that would be
useful as supplements to our text, I list here several that I like,
and that cover similar material at a similar depth (and with similar
mathematical difficulty) to our text, and that are available either in
Swem or in the Physics library.
You might find it useful to consult one or more of these, either
to read an alternate presentation of the concepts, or to find more
examples and problems that are worked out in detail, or even
to find more problems to attempt. In most cases, the answers to
the odd-numbered problems are given in the back of the book.
In general, most texts entitled something like
``University Physics'' or ``Physics for Scientists and
Engineers'' are appropriate for us (those that are entitled things like
``College Physics''
don't use calculus, and are more appropriate for
the Physics 107/108 sequence - however, they might still be useful to you).
- University Physics, Wolfgang Bauer and Gary Westfall.
- [QC23.2 .B38 2014]
- Physics for scientists and engineers,
Douglas C. Giancoli.
- [QC21.3 .G539 2008]
- Physics for scientists and engineers,
Paul Allen Tipler.
- [QC21.2.T549 1999]
- University Physics, Ronald Lane Reese.
- [QC21.2 .R435 2000]
- Physics for scientists and engineers,
Paul M. Fishbane, Stephen Gasiorowicz, Stephen T. Thornton.
- [QC23. F52 1996]
- Physics, David Halliday, Robert Resnick, and
Kenneth S. Krane.
- [QC21 .R47 1992]
Physics Department
College of William and Mary
http://physics.wm.edu/~armd/P101_other_texts.html