Overwhelmed by the exercises in Kleppner and Kolenkow

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There are a great number of problems found in An Introduction to Mechanics and as some of you already know they can be very difficult. Due to time constraints I cannot tackle all of them nor do I wish to. Could someone please point me to a small set of comprehensive problems? Perhaps from a course outline?

I would select the problems myself but being new to mechanics I'm unable to decide which problems form a comprehensive set.

Much appreciated

Edit: I have found an old course at MIT that used Kleppner and Kolenkow. Here are the selected problems. Please note the outline below uses the first edition (numbered problems may differ) https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-012-physics-i-classical-mechanics-fall-2008/assignments/

Here are two other course centered on K&K (2nd edition) with selected problems.

http://www.brynmawr.edu/physics/courses/122/assignments122_2015.html

https://users.wpi.edu/~nab/PH2201.html
 
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Have you looked into the Schaum's series and other books that contain solved problems with explanations? The idea is to have a middle ground between theory and practice. I think Schaum's does a good job of it.
 
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