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Re: SAT

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
Okay, I'll take school more seriously; that means investing more time outside of class actually mastering the subject. I want to get a broader view of physics than what the current text book gives me. Which textbook do you recommend? I am obviously getting the used one.

http://www.amazon.com/College-Physic...5993681&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/College-Physic...5993681&sr=1-5
http://www.amazon.com/College-Physic...5993681&sr=1-8

If you are asking me why I am doing this. I realize how important physics is regarding my future career and college education. I want to fully master it before I graduate highschool
Do you know why those books are called "College Physics"? Because that's likely precisely where you'll use them. I took physics b in high school, yet I'm taking introductory physics again in my freshman year of college. Most of it'll be rehash, albeit more difficult rehash, but that simply illustrates my point. You'll get this foundation through the school systems, part of it now and part of it in the future, and you'll have people much more versed in the subject material than you to guide you through it. They can even relate to you their experiential knowledge, which is likely at least somewhat substantial, in a way no textbook can.

If you're convinced that the system's inherently flawed though, and you can only get a proper foundation of physics by your own hand, there's nothing I can do to stop you from learning that way.
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