How do you learn to solve physics problems? In every chapter of the book. you will find various Problem Solving Techniques that offer ideas for setting up and solving problems easily and accurately. Following each Problem-Solving Strategy are one or more worked Examples that show these techniques in action. (The Problem-Solving Strategies will also steer you away from some incorrect techniques that you may be tempted to use.) You’ll also find additional examples that aren’t associated with a particular Problem-Solving Strategy. In addition, at the end of each chapter you‘ll find a Bridging Problem that uses more than one of the key ideas from the chapter. Study these strategies and problems deeply, and go through each example for yourself on a piece of paper.
Different techniques are useful for solving different kinds of physics problems, which is why the mbook offers dozens of Problem-Solving Strategies. No matter what kind of problem you’re dealing with, however, there are certain key steps that you’ll always follow. (These same steps are equally useful for problems in math, engineering, chemistry, and many other fields.) In this book we’ve organized these steps into four stages of solving a problem.
All of the Problem-Solving Strategies and Examples in the book will follow these four steps. (In few of the cases we will combine the first two to three steps.) We encourage you to follow these same steps when you solve problems yourself. You may find it useful to remember the acronym I SEE-short for Identify, Set up, Execute, and Evaluate.
Some important physics books for university and college level students :-
1. Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics by Douglas C. Giancoli
2. University Physics with Modern Physics by Young, Freedman & Lewis Ford
3. Fundamentals of Physics by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker
4. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman
5. Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Randall D. Knight