Full Description
Get Ready for Physics helps you quickly prepare for your introductory physics course, either algebra-based or calculus-based. It provides useful tools for future success in the course. The booklet gives you tips on recognizing your individual learning styles and helps your maximize your study time. It helps you review the basic mathematics you will need for the course, including ratios, proportions, and graphs. It gives you a bird's-eye preview of the major concepts and physical models so you start the course with a broad perspective of the key physical ideas and the knowledge of important terms that give students most trouble. The booklet concludes with a strong chapter on solving physics problems, replete with practice problems and examples, and with insights into answering conceptual and estimation type questions.
Contents
KNOW YOURSELF Tips on how to study, and organizing study time; moving past memorizationUSING MATH Review of basic algebra, solving linear and quadratic equations, simplifying complex fractions, right angle trigonometry, logs and exponentials, significant figures and scientific notation, interpreting graphsPHYSICS CONCEPTS Models of physical systems-mechanical, thermal waves, optic, and nuclear models-with an emphasis on the basic concepts, and the ideas and terms that most often give students difficultySOLVING PROBLEMS Tips on quantitative and conceptual problem solving with numerous practice problems and examples
