Reddit reviews Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics (3rd Edition)
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Did everyone else have this experience? I'm about to finish up physics 2 at my community college, and there has been no need for multivariable calculus at all. It seems like all (or almost all) of the textbook problems use cases where there is no calculus required (textbook: Physics for Scientists and Engineers - Randall Knight). Or if there is an integral, some symmetry of the problem allows the integration to be trivial. I'm a little worried that I will be in for a rude awakening once I transfer.
I like Knight for intro physics but there are texts out there that are completely free and still decent, like Openstax.
I didn't know Mazur had written a book, so I can't comment on it too much. I always disliked Halliday & Resnick's for their sloppy notation, but maybe the newer editions modernized it a little bit.
In my area, some of the best teachers physics teachers are using Randall D. Knight's books ( https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Scientists-Engineers-Strategic-Approach/dp/0321740904 ), so you should check it out. Modern, clear notation, thorough problem solving. It's 4/5 on amazon.com, but the bad ratings aren't about the book itself, but more about the packaging/access card missing.
Edit : I'm not american. I don't know what level it covers, but it covers pretty much the same as Halliday & Resnick or Serway.
Lowest price I could find on amazon was $54 shipped so I'll go under. How does $45 sound?
The title of the book is Physics for scientists and engineers not Introduction to modern physics.
Class - this means me teaching class, not going to class.
Planning - lesson planning for the aforementioned class.
Exercise - a quick 7 minute intensive calisthenics workout.
Wild card - no particular scheduled activity, but the time is reserved for "purple pursuits" - that is, creative or academic projects (which are my priority).
Mathematics - working my way through Engineering Mathematics by K.A. Stroud.
Spanish vocab - I have a book with different pages divided up by category (e.g. body, directions, dimensions). During vocab sessions I work on a single category, adding new words to the page, testing myself on old words, and making example sentences.
Spanish verbs - basically conjugation practice. I have a game (which I made myself) in which I select a verb (infinitive), tense and subject at random and have to conjugate it correctly, then say the English translation. Repeat.
Spanish reading - Reading through Spanish short stories in books like these.
Spanish listening - generally watching clips on YouTube in Spanish.
At some point in the near future I'm going to incorporate physics too (Following this book by Knight). That will probably go into the "Wild Card" spots, and Sunday afternoon will transform from "Relax" into "Wild Card".
I've had to make a few changes from when I first wrote it. The two big ones were: (1) I had originally massively underestimated travel time and food preparation time and (2) I had not counted on my own psychological quirks. Originally I had scheduled lesson planning to happen after pursing my own activities and just before class (reducing the redundancy of having to review the plan before class), but it turns out I don't work that way. To be able to focus on an activity I need to know that my lesson planning is out of the way.
The original also had a lot less redundancy (no "wild card" slots to allow me to catch up on missed activities) and an emptier weekend. I found out that the weekend, when scheduled as 100% "relax" made me feel a bit shitty. I need to feel like I've done something productive every day, even weekends. I ended up using the weekend to catch up on my overly-packed working week, so I lessened the intensity of the weekdays but made my weekend more productive.
Join the military for job security, life experience, and because it's generally a big resume booster for potential employers/schools. 4 years and you're out, and likely with money for school. Study a physics text cover-to-cover along the way, with the aim of eventually taking the PGRE (if grad school is still your aim). Four years after a lackluster undergrad performance, with military exp and a killer PGRE score, you could very well be fine.