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How to Solve Physics Problems (College Course S) 1st Edition

by Robert Oman (Author), Daniel Oman (Author)
4 out of 5 stars 22 customer reviews
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Product Details

  • Series: College Course S
  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (August 22, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0070481660
  • ISBN-13: 978-0070481664
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.8 x 10 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis Is The Book If You Need Help with Physics
By TBell on January 16, 2000
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Beginning with the "How To Use This Book" and "How To Excel in Your Physics Course", (especially the latter) and throughout its pages, this is, without a doubt in this readers opinion, the very best book on the subject I have found to date (And I have many). It puts you through the paces. If you want to know this subject and excel in it, these authors have placed before you the practice you will need. I recommend this book highly for your first experiences in this subject. Starting with the mathematical background required; then on to Classical through Special Relativity. It covers each and every topic, in a clear, concise method that enhances learning and improves retention greatly in each and every area. It's a great reference to have on the shelf. EXCELLENT! My thanks to the authors. Your book has helped me much more than I ever expected.
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5.0 out of 5 starsVery helpful, recommend
By A Customer on January 17, 2000
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this is a very good book except there are some mistakes(but the mistakes are easily found and corrected by yourself). This book gives you how to attack problems in a very organized manner even though the problems are not so difficult. I came to be able to solve more challenging problems in a different book after solving the easy but organized ones in this book. I recommend this book!
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4.0 out of 5 starsIt is a very good book .
By Fahad Alsubaie on August 29, 1999
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It is a very good book but it does not solve complicated problems.Furthermore,it has few mistakes(EX. Pages 88 and 94).In all honesty,it solves the most problems that you will encounter in the freshman physics courses.
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3.0 out of 5 starsDecent book - many errors
By A Customer on July 5, 2000
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This book is a decent book for those being taking a freshman physics course for non-majors. This is a good supplement to a calculus based physics textbook.
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4.0 out of 5 starsBuy this book as a supplement to your textbook
By B. Strong on July 22, 2004
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Other than a few typos, this book is awesome. I learn the basic concepts from this book, and then do the problems in my textbook. This book has helped me when my professor couldn't/wouldn't. You cannot learn physics from this book only, but it is an excellent addition to any textbook.
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4.0 out of 5 starstypographical errors
By victor s savona on March 7, 2000
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it's a good book, it helped a great deal. I wish time was taken to correct typographical errors. I lost valuable time that could have been used to study.
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3.0 out of 5 starsNot really worth it...
By Amazon Customer on April 12, 2013
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I bought this to see if it would support an intro level calculus based physics course, as that's what I teach. I concluded that the answer is no. It might suffice for a college level algebra based course, it might even be 'good' for a high school course, but the problems I assign (from my own textbook, but also out of other people's textbooks when I teach from them) are way out of its league. It might help a student who was REALLY struggling with physics to bootstrap to where they were only struggling a LITTLE, but it isn't going to take a mediocre student to excellence. Low end support, in other words.

I don't really blame the author. This is difficult stuff to teach, especially when you get to strictly algebraic (symbolic, I don't mean lacking calculus) problems involving multiple physics concepts, or even on a more mundane level to solving "concept" type questions (typically multiple choice or ranking problems involving e.g. scaling relations).

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5.0 out of 5 starsUse this if you are taking calculus based physics
By Mike S. on August 3, 2012
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There are a lot of supplements out there for algebra based physics, but not a ton on calculus based physics. At least ones that don't make you feel like you are drinking from a fire hose, just blasting you with too much information at once. This does not have a bunch of fancy graphics or illustrations. It gives you just enough so you can picture the situation. It really helps you interpret the problem. Like in the first chapter on vectors, there is a problem asking at what point do two cars cross each other. It then goes on to say when a question asks you this, set the equations for the position for each car equal to each other and solve for x. After you know that is what you are supposed to do, the math is pretty straight forward.

Depending on how much time you have, I recommend going through a good algebra based physics supplement to get an idea of how to attack the basic problems. Then move on to this and get exposed to more challenging problems, then do problems from your textbook or one of the supplements with harder problems in that. If you do that, while physics class will probably never be simple, you will be prepared and not get freaked out in an exam because you don't know how to start the problem or waste a lot of time trying to interpret what the problem is giving you and asking for. I am in the middle of the first semester of calculus based physics right now, and this more than any other supplement has the most similar type of problems to the examples my teacher goes over in class and sample problems he puts in our lab manual. Those are of course the questions he uses as a model for the exam questions.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsGet it!

This book saved my Physics grade. I combined it with Physics for the Utterly Confused and it almost made up for my poor professor.

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as described

Published 12 months ago by Chris Eckman
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

It is a good book for Physics beginners, however it does NOT include complicated problems.

Published 16 months ago by Robin Liu
1.0 out of 5 starsAvoid - errors will confuse you.

This could have been a very useful book if there weren't so many errors. These aren't just simple typos. Read more

Published 18 months ago by Anthony Christie
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Great book.

Published 19 months ago by Amazon Customer
1.0 out of 5 starsSo terrible it deserves 4 black holes out of 5.

Its like trying to learn calculus from a drunk teacher. The drunk teacher manages to spit out a halting, shambles of a sentence explaining his rationale before conjuring up some... Read more

Published 19 months ago by Andrew Garcia
5.0 out of 5 starsA great exam buster

I recommended this book to all my physics students, Not only an excellently written book but well researched and informative. Overall a great read. 5 stars

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The problem solving techniques are "on time" however , I'm finding that many on-line courses homework belie the simple framework
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