Do Schuam's Outlines and AP Books Help with College Physics and Calculus?

[johnnyies]

has anyone used these books for supplements? I'm looking preferably at college physics and calculus. I want less theory and more problem solving, do these books help?

 

[kuahji]

Absolutely. I love the Schaum's series. When I took mathematical stats, the text we used was so bad, we switched over to the Schaum's book. Most math professor I talk to all say they used the old school Schaum's books along the way. So yeah, good investments for problems, a bit short on theory.

As for the calculus one, never used it, my text had enough problems & for theory I used The Calculus Lifesaver. As for college physics, again my text had plenty of problems but I also used the Schaum's book now & then. The problem was however that this particular text had a good many typos & some of the answers were clearly wrong as well. As a supplement, I used the textbook study guides (University Physics series) which had more problems.

 

[Pinu7]

Schuam is wonderful. When I learn something new, I would read a Schuam outline before looking at a "real" book. However, take it with a grain of salt since they are usually filled with A LOT of errors , in general