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Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Book Review: Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far

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  Merlin's Tour of the Universe is a book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, first published in 1989 and updated in 2024. In it, Tyson answers lett...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Book Review: The Physics of Superheroes

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  The Physics of Superheros is a book by James Kakalios, who is a physics and astronomy professor at the University of Minnesota. The book p...
Thursday, August 3, 2023

Study Aid Review: Ultimate Physics 3 Tutor - Electricity and Magnetism Series - Volume 2

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  I used most of Jason's DVDs to prepare myself for my math and physics classes before I took them, fill in material from lectures that ...

Study Aid Review: Math and Science DVD Bundle

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  I found Jason Gibson's DVDs when looking for study aids to use when I went back to school to get an engineering degree. I would use th...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Book Review: Physics Without the Boring Bits

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  This is not a physics textbook. There are no equations (except for force equals mass times acceleration), no math, and no homework problem...

Study Aid Review: Ultimate Physics 3 Tutor - Electricity and Magnetism Series - Volume 1

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  First, as the word TUTOR implies this is a DVD to help you learn how to do physics problems. It is not a DVD on the history of physics, a ...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Textbook Review: Fundamentals of Physics

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  This is the physics textbook by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker which is the required textbook for many calculus-based physics classes. It i...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Study Aid Review: A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations (Student's Guides) 1st Edition

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  Maxwell's equations are some of the most important things that you will learn if you are taking physics and/or working on an electrica...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Study Tips: How to survive Physics

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Physics is one of those classes that people either avoid (those in the liberal arts majors) or begrudgingly take because they have to (engin...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Study Aid Review: Statics for Dummies

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  The way I felt about statics was, it took the worst problems from physics, made them harder, and then filled an entire semester with them....
Friday, June 24, 2022

Study Aid Review: Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Physics (Schaum's Outlines) 1st Edition

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  This is one of the Schaum's guides that is really just a problems repository. It does not have much in the way of explanatory material...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Study Aid Review: Ultimate Physics 2 Tutor Vol. 2 - Oscillations and Waves

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  This is a continuation of Jason's series of physics tutors. Where the material falls in your particular class sequence (if you are tak...
Sunday, May 8, 2022

Study Aid Review: The Ultimate Physics 2 Tutor Volume 1: Thermodynamics

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  This set is honestly, probably a bit overkill for the amount of Thermodynamics you are likely to be exposed to in Physics. Most physics cu...

Study Aid Review: How to Solve Physics Problems

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  This is a decent book to help you learn the concepts of physics and give you some exposure to the theory. It does have some helpful inform...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Study Aid Review: Homework Helpers: Physics, Revised Edition

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  This is a great guide for a high-school, non-AP physics class, or an algebra-based physics class at the college level. It contains the mat...
Friday, May 6, 2022

Book/Study Guide Review: The Physics Problem Solver

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  The REA problem-solvers guides give you a lot of example problems on all of the major topics you will come across in the first year of phy...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

DVD Review: The Ultimate Physics Tutor

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  As most are likely aware, physics classes range from very introductory, with little to no math (usually in a college class called somethin...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

Book Review: Physics Workbook for Dummies

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  This is the companion book to Physics for Dummies, by the same author. Hence, it follows the same chapter format and layout of that book. ...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Book Review: Physics for Dummies

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  This is a book that introduces the concepts that you will learn in a first-semester physics class, like the laws of motion, gravitation, c...