<p>eh...where do i get this book? And what's the 7a lab manual? </p>
<p>\Anyone with 7a experience can explain thanks!</p>
<p>I’m not sure what the “handbook” is, but we had 3 things “required” of us:</p>
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<li>MasteringPhysics online code (to my knowledge it cannot be bought used as the code is used to create an account linked to your name. however, you can use it in future classes like 7B)</li>
<li>Giancoli textbook. not strictly required, but it certainly would help unless you already have a book of your own</li>
<li>7A Lab Manual. this is a custom edition with 2 parts, the labs and worksheet problems. you need to cut the lab pages out to give to your GSI. however, you might be able to copy the lab pages using a scanner/copier or maybe even find them online. depends on your GSI/professor though.</li>
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<p>a recommended book that I had but never ended up using very much (mostly because there were so many practice exams online that I just used those instead) was PortableTA (vol 1), which is just a book full of practice problems and detailed solutions to them.</p>
<p>Is the lab manual a book that can be bought individually since I see that Neds is selling these things in a package. Is the lab manual like a reader? I plan on getting each thing separately. Does the book need to be berkeley edition that is split up into volumes or would a combined one suffice?</p>
<p>yea…more info on lab manuals thanks? where to get them, etc?</p>
<p>usually the cheapest combination if you’re starting at 7A and plan on taking more of the series is to buy the manual/code/textbook combo. they are, however, sold independently (if they’re in stock) at Ned’s and the cal bookstore if you want to try to get the textbook used and the code independently. </p>
<p>the lab manual looks like a spiral bound notebook with 2 parts inside: labs (prelab questions, then a lab with exercises and questions, then postlab question… all super easy stuff), and exercises that correspond to each topic that you learn in the class.</p>
<p>the textbook you can definitely get a different version of. very rarely (or at least in Zettl’s class) do you ever need to reference specific pages or problems that would have been changed from edition to edition, so a combined one or a different version would work fine.</p>