For those of you who have the need for it, this is the best supplement that I have found that presents problems in the same manner as the material covered in your book. Jason (Gibson) has structured this DVD and volume 2 of this set to introduce the topic, give some of the theory behind the topic, and present the equations that will be utilized in one section, then he starts working on the problems on that topic in a separate section. This helps split some of the material up, especially when the "lecture" material can take over an hour for some of the topics. It just makes things flow better, and he can give more example problems that way.
Like the predecessor physics DVDs he has put out, it is geared more toward algebra-based physics than calculus, although he does begin to add more of the calculus theories for some of the material. Some of the problems he goes through require very basic integration, and, if you are taking calculus-based physics you should have had at least a semester of calculus by the time you get to this material. So, the calculus he uses should really not be hard. Jason does a lot more deriving of the equations in this series than he has in his other DVD sets and really does try to show how the various electric field and electric potential equations are related to each other. But unlike what you may get in class, Jason does not skip steps or presume you know more than you really do. Of course, if you do not follow it the first time around you can re-watch the sections. At the core, it is giving you examples of how the questions are worded, and strategies for how to solve them. The problems range from very easy "plug and chug" examples to more complex deriving and proof kinds of problems where you are manipulating the formulas but are not given numbers. If used as a supplement to class and homework this will help you immensely.
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