Boost Your Physics Skills: Must-Have Books for Struggling Physics Majors

[vpv]

Hi. I am a physics major although I am having a hard time getting good marks in the first semester of my first year. I just wanted any suggestions from peers and any senior students if there are any books out there which I can use as a physics major to understand concepts thoroughly and has a set of difficult exercises which, after practicing, would help me become better at physics. I would like to put it out there that physics at my university involves very few numbered calculations.. Are there any books which I can use to understand the concepts (I am not a beginner) and enhance my variable physics, if I may say?

Thank you in advance.
-vpv

 

[vpv]

46views not a single reply?! c'mon someone.

 

[kuahji]

For basic physics, I really like University Physics textbook for problems, and Fundamentals of Physics for explanations.

 

[rubrix]

yeap "University Physics" textbook is a good one for problems. Get a hold of teachers solution manual (not student guide), it has detailed solutions to all the problems...do as many as you can!

 

[nbo10]

Halliday Resnick Krane - Physics I and II and the Feynman lectures

 

[flyingpig]

Oh first year? Get an AP Physics C prep book.

 

[vpv]

Would Barrons College Review in AP Physics work? Also would 3000 solved problems in Physics be a good book to use as practice or are they elementary problems?