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本書是一本在美國被普遍認可而廣泛採用的大學物理教科書。內容包括力學、熱學、振動與波、電磁學、光學、狹義相對論等。本書的特色是注重概念,原理的講解,非常注意教給學生解答物理習題的方法;除配有大量,合適的例題外,還適時地總結列出利用原理解答習題的思路和步驟,並在學業生易發生誤解和錯誤的地方及時地加註:本書還引用了大量生動的生活實例,從實際出發,激發學生的學習興趣,開闊學生的眼界。本書適用於一般工科院校,特別是雙語教學。Hugh D.Young is Professor of Physics at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh,PA.He attended Carnegie-Mellon for both undergraduate and graduate study and eraned his Ph.D. in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late RichardCutkosky.He joined the faculty of Carnegie-Mellon in 1956,and Has also spent two years as a Visting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.Prof.Young's career has centered entirely around undergraduate education.He has written several undergraduate-level textbooks,and in 1973 he became a co-author with francis Sears and Mark Zemansky for their well-known introductory texts.With their deaths,he assumed full responsibility ofr new editions of these books,most recently the eighth edition of University Physics.