need help, best book for physics

[motocross53]

whats the best book for physics 3/4 as my book isnt really straight forward and makes it hard to understand, and do you have suggestion or tips of what you do to help do well, thanks

[LinusX]

Each book is good for a particular topic. What book do you have? I find the Heinemann book is good enough for most topics, although I occasionally use the Nelson book to clarify certain topics (e.g. Magnetism which I found dreadful in Heinemann). I hear Jacaranda is good too but i havent tried it.

[Lasercookie]

Nelson is the best in my opinion. It manages to explain most topics pretty damn well, provide a bit of extra depth at times (usually with derivation of formulas though) and the majority of questions are well written and leagues better than the stuff you'll find it Heinemann or Jacaranda.

I reckon Jacaranda is absolutely rubbish - Heinemann isn't great but it does the job.

[b^3]

I reckon Jacaranda is absolutely rubbish - Heinemann isn't great but it does the job.

I've been using Jacaranda for the whole year and its worst than rubbish, it's absoluetly dreadful. I haven't tried Nelson but Heinemann has been great for me for the last couple of weeks, I have learnt more out of it in 3 weeks than out of Jacaranda for the whole year.

[tony3272]

I reckon Jacaranda is absolutely rubbish - Heinemann isn't great but it does the job.

I've been using Jacaranda for the whole year and its worst than rubbish, it's absoluetly dreadful. I haven't tried Nelson but Heinemann has been great for me for the last couple of weeks, I have learnt more out of it in 3 weeks than out of Jacaranda for the whole year.

This is so true. I've been using the Jacaranda book as well and it's terrible. The only reason i bought it was because it was second-hand, allowing me to only spend $22 on physics this year 

[pi]

Heinemann seems the best, but I honestly think they all have WAY too much rubbish.

I prefer summary notes and exam packs, but that probably isn't best for most people.

[tony3272]

Just to add to this, you should get the A+ notes book if you haven't already. I found it quite useful for quick revision. If you're too lazy to get it (like me) then your school library might have it. (I abuse the overnight hire policy by getting it on a friday  )

[pi]

Just to add to this, you should get the A+ notes book if you haven't already. I found it quite useful for quick revision. If you're too lazy to get it (like me) then your school library might have it. (I abuse the overnight hire policy by getting it on a friday  )

lol, our teacher literally teaches out of it (albeit the older version). Says a lot about why I dislike physics...

[HarveyD]

anyone where they sell the A+ notes (besides the city)?
do you think it would be at Link? :S

[pi]

http://www.ssrc.com.au/ wait that's in the city, my bad

Academic and General will have it, not all are city located

Link should have it (assuming you mean Link Educational Supplies in Mt Waverley)

http://www.atarnotes.com/?p=books&a=view&ISBN=9780170177979 (online)

[tony3272]

Just to add to this, you should get the A+ notes book if you haven't already. I found it quite useful for quick revision. If you're too lazy to get it (like me) then your school library might have it. (I abuse the overnight hire policy by getting it on a friday  )

lol, our teacher literally teaches out of it (albeit the older version). Says a lot about why I dislike physics...

I'd much rather our teacher teach out of it. Ours just copy and pastes the jacaranda textbook onto a handout, takes out a few words and does a "fill in the gaps" while he reads it off a powerpoint.

[Lasercookie]

I'd much rather our teacher teach out of it. Ours just copy and pastes the jacaranda textbook onto a handout, takes out a few words and does a "fill in the gaps" while he reads it off a powerpoint.

Is my teacher the only one that teaches mainly using the whiteboard...?
He does write up a PowerPoint sometimes, but it's usually just selected trial exam problems when he does (or pretty diagram heavy).

[b^3]

I'd much rather our teacher teach out of it. Ours just copy and pastes the jacaranda textbook onto a handout, takes out a few words and does a "fill in the gaps" while he reads it off a powerpoint.

Is my teacher the only one that teaches mainly using the whiteboard...?
He does write up a PowerPoint sometimes, but it's usually just selected trial exam problems when he does (or pretty diagram heavy).

Ours still uses a whiteboard, normally fills up two or three each lesson. Everyone gets sick of writing the stuff down, now they just take a picture of each board on their phone as their 'notes'.

[Lasercookie]

I'd much rather our teacher teach out of it. Ours just copy and pastes the jacaranda textbook onto a handout, takes out a few words and does a "fill in the gaps" while he reads it off a powerpoint.

Is my teacher the only one that teaches mainly using the whiteboard...?
He does write up a PowerPoint sometimes, but it's usually just selected trial exam problems when he does (or pretty diagram heavy).

Ours still uses a whiteboard, normally fills up two or three each lesson. Everyone gets sick of writing the stuff down, now they just take a picture of each board on their phone as their 'notes'.

that's a lot of writing 

[pi]

I'd much rather our teacher teach out of it. Ours just copy and pastes the jacaranda textbook onto a handout, takes out a few words and does a "fill in the gaps" while he reads it off a powerpoint.

Is my teacher the only one that teaches mainly using the whiteboard...?
He does write up a PowerPoint sometimes, but it's usually just selected trial exam problems when he does (or pretty diagram heavy).

Ours still uses a whiteboard, normally fills up two or three each lesson. Everyone gets sick of writing the stuff down, now they just take a picture of each board on their phone as their 'notes'.

We have SmartBoards Other classes download the saved hand-written notes from our school portal (intranet), but my teacher doesn't teach much, so I leach of other teachers occasionally