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This text is designed for a one-semester course aimed at physics majors. Often physics students are not comfortable using the mathematical tools that they learn in their undergraduate courses, and this text discusses the mathematics that physics students need to master. This text provides students with the necessary tools and shows how to use those tools specifically in physics problems.

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I would use this text if available. In particular, I liked the choice and development of the examples in the text. This book reminds me in spirit of the famous three volume physics lectures by Feynman, Leighton, and Sands, which is still around. Professor Leaas subject matter is more advanced, and more mathematical, but the appeal to the studentas intuition and the enthusiasm of the text are similar, and to my mind very positive for someone seeing this perhaps for the first time, or repairing an inadequate grasp of the material from a prior exposure. I hope it is clear that I am a fan of this text.

I would use this text if available. In particular, I liked the choice and development of the examples in the text. This book reminds me in spirit of the famous three volume physics lectures by Feynman, Leighton, and Sands, which is still around. Professor Lea's subject matter is more advanced, and more mathematical, but the appeal to the student's intuition and the enthusiasm of the text are similar, and to my mind very positive for someone seeing this perhaps for the first time, or repairing an inadequate grasp of the material from a prior exposure. I hope it is clear that I am a fan of this text.

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Susan Lea, professor of Physics and Astronomy at San Francisco State University, has a B.A. and M.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University (with an emphasis in theoretical physics), and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Shapley lecturer for the American Astronomical Society, the author of PHYSICS: THE NATURE OF THINGS (ITP, 1997), and a flight instructor. Her research emphasis includes theoretical astrophysics, especially accretion problems and investigation of x-ray sources, and numerical hydrodynamics.

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