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06/05/2010 11:16 PM

Dear colleagues, I'm teaching physics and I have the Sears and Semansky 6th edition "Colleague Physics" and I'm looking forward on all the solved problems in the book does anybody knows where can I find i

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06/06/2010 3:55 AM

I grew up (~1968) on college physics by Resnick & Halliday, and the Feynman, Leighton, and Sands Lectures on Physics. I don't know how Sears and Semansky compare. As for the solved problems, the answers might already be given; but you might need to get a teaching guide from the publisher for the reasoning behind the answers. Forty years ago, I would have been on top of this, but now I'm too rusty.

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06/06/2010 11:07 PM

I do not know about the book with solved examples in physics. But, as you are teaching physics, I suggest you to study The lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman.

You need to go beyond just solving the examples, and understand and digest the physics.

http://www.feynmanlectures.info/

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06/10/2010 11:40 PM

You can find all 3 volumes for download at www.4shared.com

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06/06/2010 11:24 PM

When I took newtonian physics out of one Sears text, given solutions were often wrong, and in several cases, were the result of an incorrect approach to the problem. Get with your smartest students and solve them out, swap papers and check them.

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06/07/2010 12:09 AM

I taught using Sears and Zemanski back in the '60's, and I'm almost certain I still have it, including the answer booklet. (I don't know the edition). BTW - it's 'College Physics'. Unfortunately, I'm in southern California this week, and the book is at home in northern California. As soon as I get home (around the 13th), I'll check.

For a book that old, I can't imagine there being a problem of my scanning it and sending you the scans.

I'll need your email to send it. Send that to me via a Private Message.

If I haven't sent you something by the 15th, post a reminder; my 'forgetter' is working rather well recently...

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06/07/2010 9:00 AM

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06/07/2010 5:28 AM

You are teaching Physics and don't know the answers?

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06/07/2010 5:39 AM

I'm not sure what to make of that....

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06/07/2010 5:47 AM

Around here -Falafel

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06/07/2010 6:46 AM

Falafel is great, but I know of no local sources. I reacted to the Meat Tornado (some kind of rotary device for shredding dead animals?) on account of my username. All in good fun, I trust.

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06/07/2010 8:17 AM

34point5 & Tornado:

Good "play" on words...."Meat Tornado"!!!! LOL

Actually, isn't that a pic of the traditional Greek Soulvaki (sp?) being roasted on a vertical rotisserie??? Good stuff!

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06/07/2010 9:35 AM

Captain it has a host of names - none of which is falafel (or 'teacher')

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Tornado, it was more about;

"I have seen the end. No one was spared not even the children".

But yes, image wise; cognizance was on, opportunity long long awaiting and tongue was firmly in cheek.

Guest, you have completed the irony with insuperable Moronic Bumblism.

"If you are a teacher...." <<<< you even typed it.

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06/07/2010 6:25 AM

I notice that Amazon lists their 8th edition now available. I don't know how old your 6th editions is, but there are solution manuals available for the 8th edition. Maybe if you search their website or other used textbook sources you will find one for the older edition you are going to teach.

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06/07/2010 8:28 AM

Check Cramster. www.cramster.com, or just Google cramster.

You can check to see if your book is listed in their solved solutions to physics books. If you're a teacher, you should be aware that most of your students are probably using this anyway, so be prepared to make your own problems if don't want them to copy.

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06/07/2010 10:00 PM

I have (used in college in 1958 & 59 I think) Sears & Zemansky second edition, copyright 1955, in 2 volumes. Both have answers to odd-numbered problems plus supplementary problems and answers, all printed as part of the book--not as a separate supplement.

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06/07/2010 11:29 PM

That's exactly when I took it. 5 years later I taught out of the same books, probably 3rd edition, but I can't check 'till I get home. The answers to the even-numbered problems were provided to teachers/professors in a separate booklet. If the one I have is indeed the 3rd edition, my answer set may or may not be of any use with the 6th edition. We'll find out when I get home.

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06/10/2010 5:20 PM

According to your bio, you are working as an HVAC engineer. Are you teaching Physics part time? Your department chairman should be able to help you get a copy of the instructor's handbook, or maybe the school's bookstore can help. You can always contact the publisher; they are usually helpful to the professors who are actively using their books because it often means future sales.

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