>>8113355
f you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to /adv/ - Advice.

>>8113355
Because many students need the hand holding not to fail since it's their first real problem solving class. You can always read Kleppner & Kolenkow or Purcell & Morin if you want something to the point and more intense.

Because they usually have a lot of questions/exercises.

>>8113355
Read landau & lifshitz if you want to understand why being verbose is helpful to all but the most gifted students.

>he can't speed read 1000 pages with 98% comprehension
>he can't absorb the contents of an entire textbook within an afternoon after watching a leisurely game of baseball
brainlets detected in this quadrant

>>8113380
He isn't asking for advice you stupid fuck go away!!

>>8113355
>Why are freshman physics textbooks 1000+ pages long?
Because freshmen gotta learn a lot. They know nothing yet, so of course their books must contain more information than the texts for higher students.

>>8113417

>Kleppner & Kolenkow

anon knows where to find the good shit

>>8113417
Thanks I'll check those out

>>8113355

1) Broader topics ranging from mechanics, E&M, Thermo, and modern physics

2) more pages for examples, figures, and problems because freshman physics class probably has 1000 students and prof doesn't want to write his own questions

3) Mo' pages, mo' money

A good guideline for intro textbooks is anything from 1960's-80's probably does a better job as a pedagogical text than anything recent