Difference between Physics and Fundamental University Physic

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What is the difference between "Physics" (1 volume, 1156 pages) and "Fundamental University Physics" (3 volumes) by Alonso Finn? Is the former 3 volumes bound as one or a revised edition?
 
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Both are great books. The three volume set is the ideal version to purchase. The other is "dumbed down", so to speak. I can read spanish fluency, so I purchased all 3 versions for under 15. If you are comfortable reading in another language, then purchase it in that language. Alonso Finn has been translated to multiple languages.
 
The one volume tome is a revised edition that cuts down heavily on the second and third volumes content. Of the third volume there's just a shadow of what it was.
Nonetheless, it is a good read: essential, clean, clear. But as bit too superficial.
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