This is a hypertextbook written for first-year undergraduate
physics students. It assumes that you have a working knowledge of algebra, that you are currently taking or have taken a college level course in
Biology and one in Chemistry, and that you are interested in biology,
Chemistry or one of the health-related fields. It does not try to be encyclopedic, but neither does it assume that you have to be spoon-fed: you are expected to be a serious student and a careful reader. This means that you are expected to work out all of the examples for yourself, and do all of the problems. When first approaching a problem, use the corresponding
text as a research tool: using the variables in the problem as a guide, identify the equations in the text (and any examples) which are relevant. The text is often quite "concise": there is very little in the text which is not
relevant at some point to latter portions of the text or to the problems.
After working through a few problems, read the text again and it will be much clearer: the only way to understand how the "laws" of physics work is to struggle through the
problems which use them. You should not expect to understand how to work a problem simply by reading about it. As in all things, the learning is in the doing.
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