Can someone please recommend me a college textbook?

In summary, the conversation is about finding college textbooks for first year physics and electrical engineering courses. The person is looking for textbooks with challenging practice problems and is asking for recommendations for specific titles, editions, and authors. The suggestion is to browse university websites for course syllabi to find the required textbooks.
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Can you recommend me a college textbook for electrical engineering? Like tell me all the titles for the textbooks for the first year of college EE courses, include the names of the books, editions, authors, thanks a lot.
 
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If you browse the web sites of some university EE programs, you can probably find syllabi for various courses which list the textbooks used.
 
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Textbooks for Physics and Electrical Engineering?

Can someone please tell me the names of the textbooks for the first year of college physics and college electrical engineering? I want the names of the textbooks, edition, author, etc. I want textbooks that has many challenging practice problems.
 

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