micromass said:Why can't you solve the midterm questions? Are they significantly harder than the textbook questions? If so, you should get a book with more difficult questions.
xforeverlove21 said:I only did the starter questions from a chapter should I continue doing them because some of the questions get harder?
I'm using the freedman university physics book (recommended for the course)
micromass said:I don't know since I don't know the questions in the book nor do I know the questions in the midterm.
Student100 said:So Young and Freedman breaks down it's problem sets into discussion questions (generally just need to invoke some concept covered to answer these), then into exercises broken down by section (quick simple math or formula type problems without needing much thought), then into problems (which require students to dissect information given) and finally harder challenge problems. So if he's only doing exercises and the conceptual questions then that could be a problem. The problem section is where the meat of the sets are.
Not immediately seeing any midterm questions that you missed that would qualify as challenge problems, looks pretty standard to me. I would make sure I'm working through the problems in the book, or do like jtbell suggests.
xforeverlove21 said:Sorry are you saying that the midterm questions are equivalent in difficulty as the challenge problems?
So far I've gone through the exercises, I will soon do the problems and challenge problems (I just started studying the first chapter)Student100 said:No, they all look problems you'd find under the problem section of the problem sets. Are you working through those, or just the exercises/discussion questions?
xforeverlove21 said:So far I've gone through the exercises, I will soon do the problems and challenge problems (I just started studying the first chapter)
Do you think doing the exercise questions are time consuming and not worth it?
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