The Physics Textbook Review Project.


A call for assistance: This data base is a project in collaborative scholarship over the internet. Our goal is to create a searchable data base which collects information and user reviews of physics books. Both textbooks and monographs may be reviewed. Please help by sending corrections, annotations, entries, relevant net sites, suggestions and any other helpful information you have to offer. Use the Response Box at the end of this page, or respond by e-mail to the editor, Kyle Forinash: kforinas@ius.edu.



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Use the following to either add a book review to the data base or make corrections or additional comments to books already in the data base. Comments will be edited.


Reviewer information.

(NOTE: Anonymous reviews will not be posted in the data base.)

Information about the book.

  1. Name of the book you are reviewing or commenting on:

  2. Publisher:

  3. Edition:

  4. Email adress and/or Http site of publisher or distributor:

  5. Subject of the book:
    1. Physics for Poets.
    2. Introductory physics, algebra based.
    3. Introductory physics, calculus based.
    4. Modern physics (3rd semseter).
    5. Mechanics.
    6. Thermodynamics.
    7. Electricity and Magnetism.
    8. Optics.
    9. Electronics.
    10. Quantum mechanics.
    11. Solid state/condensed matter.
    12. Other:

  6. Aproximate cost:

  7. Availability of supplimentary material:
    1. Student solution/workbook.
    2. Software.
    3. Overheads.
    4. Test bank.
    5. Instructor solution book.
    6. Lab manual.
    7. Other:

  8. Enter your comments. Be sure to include pros and cons, factual errors, printing errors, pointers to relevant information on the WWW and anything else you think might be useful to a potential user of this book:

  9. Overall rating:
    1. Excellent.
    2. Very good.
    3. Good.
    4. Needs revision.
    5. Don't waste your money.


    Maintained by Kyle Forinash: forinas@indiana.edu.