This textbook is required for use by the students on campus at Chattanooga State. If you are an online student, you may wish to buy the one without MapleTA. It has an extra homework assignment done by Maple, an online company. Practical Physics for College Students was developed for a one semester course for technical college and community college students. It could be used as a preparatory book for General Physics, or even in a high school physics class.

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.