文档介绍：How to Use This Book
This book will teach you how to do physics problems. The explanation of not only how to do a problem but
why we do it a certain way teaches you not just a collection of solved problems, but a collection of methods that
can be used, modified, and built upon to do other physics problems. As researchers and teachers, we know that
the key to solving new and challenging problems is contained within the collection of techniques already
learned for solving simpler problems. Seeing a problem solved and knowing why it was done in a certain
manner is the best way to learn how to solve related, more difficult problems.
This book is not a presentation of every problem you are going to encounter on a test. It is a presentation of the
methods that we have found to work for large groups of problems. If you develop the techniques we describe
for solving problems then you will know how to essfully attack the problems you will encounter on the
tests. This is the book you should have as a reference when you are doing your homework problems. It will
show you how to work the problems and explain why they are being done the way they are.
The topics in this book are in the order of most physics texts. Each chapter begins with a theoretical discussion.
Problems are mixed in with the discussion as soon as possible. These problems follow the development of the
theory. In this way you do not have to assimilate a large amount of conceptual material before begining to work
problems.
A “standard” route is followed for problems wherever possible. In this way you will learn that broad categories
of problems worked in a standard “logical” way always produce correct solutions. Our emphasis is on logic and
order in solving problems. We avoid methods that may be quick and have limited application to problem
solving in favor of possibly longer solutions that have broad applications and always work. We believe that a lot
of good physics can be taught in problems