As a student of physics, I have seen and read several introductory university physics texts, and I can say without a doubt that this book is the most difficult to understand and most poorly written. The text is full of equation derivations, which are somewhat interesting but completely useless to a student trying to learn the introductory concepts of physics to apply in his future engineering courses. The problems do not adequately serve their intended purpose of reinforcing the concepts. I emphatically do not recommend this book to anyone who desires to learn introductory concepts of physics.