Studying Where Can I Find More Problems for University Physics I?

[Turkishking]

I am wondering where I can find more problems. I am taking University Physics I.

Also, it takes me a while to grasp the material, and I am always behind, but I do well on the quizzes. I am worried for my exam. Can anyone provide any advice? Please?

Thanks.

 

[musician ilhan]

you don't need to solve too many problems. most efficient way is to find the previous years' physics 1 exam questions and solve them.

 

[symbolipoint]

Most every book should have exercise problems. Try finding any alternative books of the same level. Use exercise problems from more than one book.

 

[jtbell]

Which textbook are you using? Most books at that level have a ton of problems already. If you want more, the simplest thing to do is probably to pick up a used copy of an old edition of another book at the same level. Old editions are cheaper and you don't need the latest edition for this purpose. There will be a lot of overlap, because there's only so many different things you can do for exercises for any given topic at that level.

 

[MarkFL]

What I used to do as a student was to take given exercises and generalize them as much as possible. Replace all given data with parameters, and derive formulas. Not only is this more challenging, it also allows you to analyze the formulas at the boundaries, which provides good insights.

 

[Vanadium 50]

I am wondering where I can find more problems.

You could get married.

you don't need to solve too many problems.

I disagree. One should solve as many problems as one can.

 

[Turkishking]

Which textbook are you using? Most books at that level have a ton of problems already. If you want more, the simplest thing to do is probably to pick up a used copy of an old edition of another book at the same level. Old editions are cheaper and you don't need the latest edition for this purpose. There will be a lot of overlap, because there's only so many different things you can do for exercises for any given topic at that level.

James Walker, 5th edition.

 

[jtbell]

Walker's book is what we call "algebra-based" i.e. it doesn't use calculus. A few similar books are:

Giancoli - Physics: Principles with Applications (but not his Physics for Scientists & Engineers, which is calculus-based)

Serway & Vuille - College Physics (but not Physics for Scientists & Engineers by Serway & Jewett, which is calculus-based)

Childers & Jones - Contemporary College Physics (this one is long out of print, but you might come across a cheap copy somewhere)

I taught algebra-based General Physics out of all of these books at different times, years ago. I don't remember having a strong preference for any of them. They all have lots of exercises.