Sears and Zemansky’s University Physics for the JEE Volume I, published by Pearson and compiled by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, A. Lewis Ford, Nitin Jain and Neel Kamal Sethia and published by Pearson, is a comprehensive book for those who aspire to excel in the JEE. It conforms to the latest syllabus and examination pattern. The book is essentially an Indian adaptation of the title University Physics with Modern Physics, the international bestseller of Young and Freedman. A large number of theoretical concepts are included, along with examples and practice exercises.
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Hugh D. Young is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Carnegie Mellon for both undergraduate and graduate study and earned his Ph.D. in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1956 and has also spent two years as a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Young's career has centered entirely around undergraduate education. He has written several undergraduate-level textbooks, and in 1973 he became a coauthor with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky for their well-known introductory texts. With their deaths, he assumed full responsibility for new editions of these books until joined by Prof. Freedman for University Physics. Prof. Young is an enthusiastic skier, climber, and hiker. He also served for several years as Associate Organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh, and has played numerous organ recitals in the Pittsburgh area. Prof. Young and his wife Alice usually travel extensively in the summer, especially in Europe and in the desert canyon country of southern Utah.