Learning Physics - The Manchester Physics Series
The Manchester Physics Series is a set of textbooks at first degree level, published by Wiley and available through all good book stores.The series grew out of our experience at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, widely shared elsewhere, that many textbooks contain much more material than can be accommodated in a typical undergraduate course, and that this material is only rarely so arranged as to allow the definition of a shorter self-contained course.
In planning these books we have had two objectives. One was to produce short books: so that lecturers should find them attractive for undergraduate courses, and so that students should not be frightened off by their encyclopaedic size or their price. To achieve this, we have been very selective in the choice of topics, with the emphasis on the basic physics together with some instructive, stimulating and useful applications. Our second objective was to produce books which allow courses of different lengths and difficulty to be selected, with emphasis on different applications.
The Manchester Physics Series has been very successful with total sales of more than a quarter of a million textbooks. The quality of the textbooks is demonstrated by the reviews which they have received.
The Manchester Physics Series
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