Physics Problems Tutorials

Welcome to PhysicsandCalculus.com: Physics Tutorials Section ! We strive to make this the best site on the internet for college physics learning, targeted at teaching problem solving skills that will help you succeed in your college general physics course or prepare you for exams. The content here consists of multimedia tutorials of physics problems from experienced professors who have taught in major Universities in the United States. The tutorials contain step by step graphics and audio that guide you through each solution. The most important physics help that most students need are good thorough explanations on how to solve physics problems that will appear on their tests and on standardized exams such as the MCAT. We invite you to explore the free content areas of this site. This way you can see exactly the kind of content that exists for all of our topics.

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This site will also be useful for students in either an advanced high school Physics class or a University level non-calculus or calculus based Physics course. We have a wide variety of problems and tutorials, starting simple and working our way up to explaining some of the hardest types of Introductory Physics Problems.

Our methodology for teaching physics problem solving skills

1. A Short discussion and introduction of each topic going through the important formulas you will need: We keep this section brief because we do not spend a lot of time repeating what is already in your physics textbook.

2. Tutorial Presentations: 76 tutorials, which is the equivalent of over 10 hours of problem solving help from experienced professors who have taught in major Universities in the United States. We think that the best way to explain many concepts in physics is to do so in the context of problems. We have heard many students say that they attended a physics lecture, seemed to understand what was said, but when they went to do problems on their own, they could not do the problems. This is because many physics textbooks and lectures discuss theory without enough emphasis on problem solving methodology. The information in the tutorials is based on our vast experience with the kind of questions that students ask when they are having trouble solving a problem.

3. A database of over 400 worked problems that are taken from physics exams and standardized tests. This gives you a wide variety of classic physic problems to study in order to prepare for your exams. The problems are worked out step by step in an organized fashion which will also provide a good reference for your homework problems.

4. Teaching problems using the show/hide approach. These are designed to help you to drill the procedures for solving physics problems. In order to be successful on your tests, you must learn problem solving skills. Only watching tutorials is not enough. We encourage you to get out a paper and pen and work through these problems. There can be no substitute for doing problems on your own. The type of help we give you is to provide hints along the way as to the next step of the problem and then allow you to reveal portions of the solution step by step. If you put the effort into this section of the site, you will be rewarded with better problem solving skills.

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The great thing about these presentations is that you can rewind ! Have you ever been sitting in class and heard the lecturer say something and think " I wish I could hear that again" ? With these presentations you can easily navigate to any place and go over the material again or pause the presentation to study a slide more carefully. If you are stuck in a Physics class where the explanations are not very good then this site is an invaluable resource for good clear explanations of physics concepts and most importantly the physics problems that commonly appear on tests. We do not spend a lot of time just talking theory here - we get right into problem solving which is what you need in the exam room. We understand that sometimes students understand the physics but have trouble with the math. We also go through the math step by step.

Here is some additional Demonstration content below from Second Semester Physics:

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A parallel plate capacitor is fully charged with a 24 volt battery. It is then disconnected from the battery and a dielectric is inserted between the plates with k=3.0 (replacing k=1.0). What is the change in voltage across the capacitor ?

Some of our more advanced content includes problems from Calculus based Physics. An example below is from The Gauss' Law Section:

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An infinitely long cylinder of radius Rc has a positive charge uniformly distributed within it. with a charge density per unit volume of p. Find an expression for the electric field inside the cylinder at a radius ri < Rc.