Classical Chapters from Morin's book that help with F=ma exam prep?

[crescentcavae]

What chapters from Morin's Introduction to Classical Mechanics Textbook will help me prepare for the F=ma exam? I also have the Feynman Lectures and the Halliday Resnick textbook. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

 

[Bystander]

the F=ma exam?

What level? HS? College? Grad school? It's a bit late in the conventional school year to be asking for such assistance.

 

[crescentcavae]

What level? HS? College? Grad school? It's a bit late in the conventional school year to be asking for such assistance.

I'm a high schooler in AP Physics Mechanics, and AP Calculus AB. I've gotten through the practice exams for the f=ma exam, and four chapters of Morin, but I feel as though he is overcomplicating some problems, and my teacher feels the same. I don't want to go through the entire book from cover to cover, rather I'd learn the topics that I'll really need.

 

[Bystander]

I'm a high schooler in AP Physics Mechanics, and AP Calculus AB. I've gotten through the practice exams for the f=ma exam, and four chapters of Morin, but I feel as though he is overcomplicating some problems, and my teacher feels the same. I don't want to go through the entire book from cover to cover, rather I'd learn the topics that I'll really need.

"Ready is ready." "O-C" is for pre-meds.

 

[jtbell]

What level? HS? College? Grad school?

I suspect he/she is referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Physics_Olympiad#Physics_Team_Selection

(OP, please correct me if I'm wrong!)

 

[crescentcavae]

"Ready is ready." "O-C" is for pre-meds.

I suspect he/she is referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Physics_Olympiad#Physics_Team_Selection

(OP, please correct me if I'm wrong!)

Yes! I was talking about the f=ma exam which is the preliminary exam for the USAPhO. I'm so sorry for not clarifying!

 

[Buffu]

What chapters from Morin's Introduction to Classical Mechanics Textbook will help me prepare for the F=ma exam? I also have the Feynman Lectures and the Halliday Resnick textbook. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

You picked a wrong book. If you don't know calculus of variation and lagrangian mechanics, there is no hope with that book. It is not a basic high school book.

Use Morin's other book, Problems and Solutions in Introductory Mechanics.

 

[crescentcavae]

You picked a wrong book. If you don't know calculus of variation and lagrangian mechanics, there is no hope with that book. It is not a basic high school book.

Use Morin's other book, Problems and Solutions in Introductory Mechanics.

Thank you so much! I was pushing through the first four chapters of Intro to Mechanics, and I was astounded by how much calculus there was. It was understandable but I looked at Problems and Solutions in Introductory Mechanics, and I feel as though it'll help me understand both books much better.