We will show you how to learn physics, work physics problems and do both more efficiently (quicker) because we get to the heart of learning physics - Doing The Problems. You get a short discussion of each of the main topics in physics, corresponding to chapters in a typical physics text, followed by audio-visual tutorials, worked problems and our unique version of teaching problems that guarantees you know how to work problems. Check out these four samples of the kind of help you will get from this site.
In addition to their own research, the authors of this site have taught tens of thousands of physics and calculus students and sold hundreds of thousands of physics and calculus helps books. See the authors for more background.
1) Sample short discussion of each topic: Projectiles
2) Sample audio-visual slideshow tutorial: Projectile Tutorial
3) Sample worked problem: Baseball hit over fence?
4) Sample teaching problem (show/hide) approach): Marble falling down stairs
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The modest $39.95 membership fee gives you access to the site until Jun 30, 2010, a small price to pay to improve your ability to do physics problems. This purchase may make the difference between excellence and mediocrity, or perhaps between survival and non-survival.
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Struggling with physics? Of course you are. That is why you came to this site. No one says physics is easy, especially not us, because we struggled too. Generations of physics students, including us, have said: "I understood everything in lecture and the text, but I still can't do the problems." By joining this site you will learn how to do physics problems, and physics problems that are like those you will find on your next exam. No matter whether you are in a calculus based physics course or a non-calculus based one the problems on this site will prepare you for your next test. Wouldn't you like to get better grades on your tests, and spend less time getting those higher grades? You can by joining today.
Ever wish you had a physics tutor that was there for you all the time, day or night whenever you wanted, never required an appointment and was willing to go over and over a procedure until you got it right? And in addition cost less than the price of a single tutoring session, or problems book! This site is that tutor. And you can access the site even the last few minutes before the text.
Who are the people that are going to help you? We are experienced physics profs with academic and industrial experience. We did not start off knowing how to do physics problems, we started off confused. But we figured out how to understand physics and apply that understanding to doing problems.
As physicists we get paid to solve problems. Any profession requires problem solving and physics problems are the hardest of all. If you can solve physics problems you can generally solve any other problems. Much of our professional lives have been devoted to helping our students develop the skills to solve problems. All the skills (tricks if you like) we have learned to solve physics problems are explained on the site.
We have seen the studies, but you know from observation and perhaps experience that physics courses can ruin a career, or at least make it more difficult. For the small cost of membership you can help your career, possibly survive when you may not have survived or excel when where you were headed for mediocrity. At the least you will have a better physics grade and if you want to work or continue to graduate school those good physics grades are going to be a big factor in getting a good job or getting into the graduate school of your choice.
The web site you are about to sample has all these features and more. If you buy a problems book you can read how others do problems. If you go to a problems oriented class you will see how the instructor does the problems. If you hire a tutor you will see how the tutor does the problems. All these experiences are great, but what you really want is the skill to do the problems yourself.
This web site is where you will learn problem solving skills!
On this web site each topic is introduced with a short discussion covering the essential information and necessary formulas. You also have worked problems, over 450 of them, with accompanying discussion of procedures and hints for pitfalls to avoid. In addition, and this is what the books, the classes and the tutors do not have, we have teaching problems where you can drill yourself on correct procedures and keep going back over the procedures until you know you have them right. And further, we have audio-visual slideshow tutorials of classic problems. These tutorials are just like going to a lecture on how to solve problems. Actually they are better, because you can play them, or parts of them, over and over until you have the procedures down.
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On this website you have:
1) Short discussions of each topic you will encounter in your physics course,
2) An audio-visual slideshow tutorial of many classic problems,
3) Worked problems, and then
4) Our show/hide problems that take you step by step through typical test problems.