AU J.T. 17(3): 115-119 (Jan. 2014) Book Review 115 Book Review A Review of Some Updates in the 13 th Edition of “Sears and Zemansky’s University Physics with Modern Physics” (Authors: Hugh D. Young and Roger A. Freedman; contributing author, A. Lewis Ford; 2012) Young, H.D.; and Freedman, R.A.; Ford, A.L. (contributing author). 2012. Sears and Zemansky’s University Physics with Modern Physics. 13 th ed. Pearson Education, Inc., Addison-Wesley, San Francisco, CA, USA. Dobri Atanassov Batovski Department of Communication and Computer Network Technology Vincent Mary School of Science and Technology Assumption University of Thailand E-mail: <dbatovski@au.edu> The book entitled “Sears and Zemansky’s University Physics with Modern Physics”, thirteenth edition, by Hugh D. Young and Roger A. Freedman with contributing author A. Lewis Ford (2012) was published by Pearson Education, Inc., Addison-Wesley, San Francisco, CA, USA. It was released on 8 January 2011, ©2012, international standard book number ISBN-13: 978-0-321-69686-1, ISBN-10: 0- 321-69686-7. The book was written by: Hugh David Young (1930-2013), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; and Roger A. Freedman, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; with contributing author Albert Lewis Ford, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. The total number of pages in the book is 1,600 pages including initial pages (24 pages), 10 chapters (1,522 pages), six appendices A-F and answers to odd-numbered problems (22 pages), photo credits (4 pages) and index (22 pages). A blank even page is added at the end of the last Chapter 44 (page 1,522) and the photo credits (page C4) to have an even number of pages. Blank pages at the end of the book are included due to even working with a binding signature having a group of 16 consecutive pages. The previous twelfth edition of the book was released on 19 March 2007, ©2008, ISBN- 13: 978-0-321-50121-9, ISBN-10: 0-321- 50121-7. The first edition of “University Physics” written by Francis Weston Sears (1898-1975) and Mark Waldo Zemansky (1900-1981) was published by Addison-Wesley in 1949 with “an emphasis on the fundamental principles of physics and how to apply them”. The intention to concentrate on the basic physical phenomena persists in all editions. Physics is thoroughly considered as a natural science even though the provided illustrations and problems are most often based on practical technical examples. Therefore, there are certain limitations in providing specific technical details related to engineering physics and engineering applications. The book is composed of three volumes. Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-20 and covers mechanics, waves/acoustics and thermo- dynamics. Volume 2 includes Chapters 21-36 and considers electromagnetism and optics. Volume 3 includes Chapters 37-44 dealing with modern physics: relativity, photons: light waves behaving as particles, particles behaving as waves, quantum mechanics, atomic structure, molecules and condensed matter, nuclear physics, and particle physics and cosmology. Volumes 1 and 2 form the standard edition and the inclusion of Volume 3 is considered as an extended edition. Volume 3 was first introduced in 1992 in the eighth edition. brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Assumption Journals