Fundamentals of Physics - Halliday/Resnick - Difference between editions?

[mcdowellmg]

My class wants the 8th edition. Is there much of a difference between the older/cheaper versions? I really don't want to spend a lot of $$ if I don't have to!

 

[brocks]

A lot of people here say that the H/R 3rd edition, published in the 70's, is the best. I disagree -- I like Alonso's physics text, published in the 60's, better.

They call it "classical" physics because it was pretty much settled 100 years ago. Any decent text that uses SI units should do just fine. Any two older texts will be much better than any single new one, at less than a tenth of the cost.

Whether you need a new text to do the homework assignments is, of course, a separate question. If you can borrow one from somebody else to get the problems, you're in like Flynn.