Physics dot point (2 Viewers)

[MPabe22]

Is the physics dot point textbook (Brian Shadwick) good for studying and consolidating knowledge if anyone has used it?

 

[wizzkids]

This is my personal opinion, I find Dot Point Physics to be unnecessarily long. For goodness sake it's 400 pages long. You don't need to complete every exercise in the book to master Physics. Most of the exercises are short answer, recall or straight calculation. There are very few really tough extended response questions in the book, like the 7 or 8 mark questions. Your teacher should set you selected problems from the book to help you consolidate your learning, but don't try to wade through the entire book. In my opinion that would be a waste of time.

 

[jazz519]

Is the physics dot point textbook (Brian Shadwick) good for studying and consolidating knowledge if anyone has used it?

i find the Strive and SuccessOne books better (from someone who tutored chem and phys) for more exam preparation. The dotpoint is kinda like a textbook style questions, where it is way too repetitive. It's good for learning initial concepts and getting the thing memorised but it won't help you for answering the HSC type questions, where you got diagrams and other things to analyse in a scenario, vs like just calculate the Torque with these values. The success one is way better in that cause it's actually past paper style questions so you will get practice in the context of choosing what formula to use in a question where it's not as clear as following what you did in part a,b,c,d etc.