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Do any of you have experience with this book? I'm using it for the calc-based physics series at my juco and I find it dense and difficult to follow. Not calling it complete crap, I mean I do 'learn' from it.

What are your opinions of it?
 
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That textbook is pretty much the standard for first year physics courses. Many many physicists today cut their teeth on that textbook, and it's easily one of if not the single best textbook out there.

It has a competitor "University Physics" which is almost identical in some places, but you may find easier in others.
 

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