<p>Check with your library too. Mine actually has 2 copies of it that you can check out.</p>
<p>how heavy is the calculus in the actual Physics C exam ?</p>
<p>not heavy at all - basic integral/derivative. sometimes you might need integration methods but thats about it</p>
<p>ok well i'm really gonna buy Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday from Amazon now >< hope it holds up</p>
<p>Well now that i have a decent Physics text for my studies, i wanna change the topic, lol. I'm also taking Calculus BC, and i need a text for that as well. any sugestions, i cant afford to waste money, i need a 5 ! lol thx</p>
<p>if you can get a copy of it, "The Calculus 7 of a Single Variable" by leithold is really, really good, but it hasn't been updated in a long time (but neither has the BC calc syllabus, so I'm almost positive that it's still useful)</p>
<p>Stewart's textbook "Calculus" seems to be another commonly used book since Leithold stopped updating his book, but I'm not a big fan. It's light on detail/justification for results and if you read the text carefully, he sometimes makes errors with terminology, which can be infuriating (especially with his physics examples. being a huge physics fan, it ****es me off.)</p>
<p>Anton "Calculus" isn't much better. It has a multivariable part after the BC Calc part if your interested in that, but it's still proof-light.</p>
<p>it doesn't work zpmqxonw !</p>
<p>zpmqxonw: i tried reading a random article (i clicked on his bit about infinities), and it hurt. while it's certainly interesting to learn about the size of infinite sets in a calculus class, the analogy to limits of expressions is not entirely correct. i hope the rest of the notes aren't as imprecise as that...</p>
<p>Wow, last time I posted his notes everybody thanked me ;) I found them really helpful when I was in Calc, but maybe they've changed. Sorry about that. The link worked for me. If it doesn't work just type in "Paul's Online Math notes" on google.</p>
<p>I used Stewart's Calc text also. Didn't like it that much, luckily I had good professors for lecture and just took a lot of notes to understand concepts that way. Used the text for problem sets and also used Schaum's book of solved Calc problems, for additional practice.</p>
<p>im a rising senior who is new to physics. i got a 5 on the Calc AB exam this year and Im wondering if I can start off with this Halliday Physics book? Does it require some familiarity with physics or can a newbie work through as much of it as possible this summer and be prepared for an AP Physics C class in the fall?</p>
<p>there are numerous copies of it for sale on ebay for 30 dollars (buy it now price) so im eager to get my hands on it, just wondering if its right for me</p>
<p>yes you can jimbob, all you need is AB. you can work through it, but there are some rough spots that just don't amke sense at all. just make sure you dont waste ur time on stuff that isn't on the physics c exam like thermo, waves/optics, quantum, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, jimbob its probably a good idea to look through it. I started the first quarter of college calc (mechanics) with absolutely no physics preparation. I was behind early on in the quarter just because I didn't have the background, but if you have a good work ethic you can catch up. Skimming Halliday's text would probably be really good preparation to get you familiar with the main concepts.</p>
<p>thanks, and by the way, turns out the 30 dollar copies on ebay are only "part 1" and "part 2," for 30 bucks each. i'm gonna grab the 70 dollar used copy on amazon.</p>
<p>i think the text that our school uses for physics C is Physics (5th Edition) by Arthur Beiser. do u guys know anything about it content ? cuz if its good enough i may just hold back on buying a different text</p>
<p>also anymore suggestions for a decent Calc BC text would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Wow, I've never heard about that one but its got 5 out of 5 stars on Amazon. It's supposedly very heavy on Calculus and different from Halliday's in that all of the subjects are integrated togehter. The reviews say it is a challenging text and for bright students. It's pricey though, does your school provide it for you? On Amazon its 170 dollars!</p>
<p>yes our school does provide, its the official text for the class, but i know nothing of it and it looks old at my school. i never had the chance to pick it up though. also, the physics C teacher at my school also teaches the BC class, so yeah. the calc BC class text is Calculus: Early Transcendentals, and i have no idea how good that is either. thats y i'm trying to find better texts since i really wanna do well. i'm taking it seriously.</p>
<p>Calculus: Early Transcendentals is the one by Stewart. I think if you look back a couple posts I posted my thoughts on that and what I used in addition to help.</p>