What's the best physics textbook? (1 Viewer)

[moonsuyoung]

Hi,
I was wondering if anybody has any physics textbook suggestions for studying ahead (for prelim and hsc)?

 

[carrotsss]

For learning ahead, I personally read ATAR notes, made notes as I went along and then did a ton of trial papers at the end, which worked out for me. Usually I prefer edrolo but physics edrolo is boring af.

Overall, Pearson is probably the best full textbook in terms of content thoroughness, but the questions are kinda bad in every textbook, and all of the textbooks go out of the syllabus in random unnecessary ways and ask questions that aren't even close to HSC questions.

 

[nsw..wollongong]

i hate pearson, its so convoluted for no reason, there's so much unnecessary info. i think the in focus one is pretty good, it makess things sound a bit simpler than pearson does

 

[howcanibesmarter]

i dont even use physics textbooks legit just follow my tutoring booklets they have like 99% of the content summarised

 

[RZ1234]

Hi,
I was wondering if anybody has any physics textbook suggestions for studying ahead (for prelim and hsc)?

It's best to read both Pearson Physics and Physics in Focus (although if I could only read one, I would read Physics in Focus only since it has more depth). One sometimes contains information the other doesn't. For example, there's no mention of decay series in Physics in Focus, but it is present in Pearson Physics. Both are good and probably the best way to study hsc physics. But neither textbooks told me that when unpolarized is light is incident on a polarizer, the intensity is halved so I couldn't answer one question on a physics trial paper because of the textbooks, not my skill issue. Also there are KISS resources too which I also find good and the most concise and also quite in depth, giving you an easy way out if you are lazy since they are made for basically a primary school reading comprehension level. As for the questions in the textbooks, you wouldn't really need to do them, just read the example questions. For questions, just do hsc questions from here https://boredofstudies.org/threads/...sorted-by-topic-based-on-new-syllabus.388429/ or elsewhere.