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Most Widely Used Two-Year College Physics Textbooks

% of faculty
using this textbook
Calculus
based
physics
Physics for Scientists & Engineers (Serway) 36
Fundamentals of Physics (Halliday et al.) 23
University Physics (Young) 13

Algebra/
Trigonometry
based physics
College Physics (Serway & Faughn) 25
Physics (Cutnell & Johnson) 12
College Physics (Wilson) 11
Physics: Principles with Applications (Giancoli) 11

Conceptual
physics
Conceptual Physics (Hewitt) 45
Physics: a World View (Kirkpatrick & Wheeler) 9

Technical/Applied
physics
Technical College Physics (Wilson) 16
Applied Physics (Tippens) 11

 

 

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