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We use Serway
and Faughn and I think the work and energy chapter is one of the
weakest in the book. The authors either have not read the literature
(Arons, et al) or they disagree with what Arons and others have to
say. I have seen the next edition and there is little improvement.
Among other things, the layout is so cluttered that, were I a
student, I would have a hard time getting to the essential ideas.
I think at least the
following two texts are worth looking at for their treatments of work
and energy among other things:
"Matter and Interactions" (Wiley, 2000) by Chabay and Sherwood
"Physics: A Contemporary Perspective" (Addison-Wesley, 1997) by Knight