Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: More of a Reference than an Instructional Text

This book reads like a beginner's CRC Handbook. Concepts are only briefly explained with some derivation of equations and definition of the variables. Examples are useless for students that need to see an actual calculation to do problems since most read like mathematical proofs. Yes, the problems are good.....but they'd be better if the text supported their difficuly, in which a good 90% dive into concepts that students have not encountered in the reading.Lectures are short and most are taught by individuals that could care less about intro physics students, so the student must learn a bulk of the course outside of the classroom. This can't be done with this empty, pompus, overly technical book.