In an honors-level physics course at my high school here in the Bay Area, the largest number of complaints regarding the course was the book. The Fundamentals of Physics: A Senior Course remains unnecessarily wordy and imprecise in its explanations; in many cases, I had found apt substitutes for physics when I could not understand the reading material. The descriptions were not advanced, but poorly explained; the equation simplifications were unclear and many of the example problems were simply too easy. Look elsewhere.

This manual appears to have been written to suit the OA (senior high school) physics program in Ontario, Canada. There is only one edition to this book (1987).

Unlike most physics textbooks (Tipler, Serway, Resnick, Giancoli...), this one contains serious "knowledge" and "comprehension" mistakes.

For example, the author describes incorrectly Cosmic Rays (they do not include X-rays, as stated in the texbook). Also, he has the Coulomb as the basic electric unit ( incorrect...it is the Ampere). Elsewhere, his description of the electric potential in an example is such that one wonders if he understands what it is.

Perhaps what worries me most is that many schools are still using this textbook, and that most teachers teaching physics are not specialized in the field ( i.e., no degrees in physics), thus may very well propagate those very mistakes.

So, if you wish to learn physics, this is not the book for you.