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which is the best physics book? (1 Viewer)

Which is the best physics book? Please state why.

  • Jacaranda

    Votes: 22 61.1%
  • Excel

    Votes: 2 5.6%
  • Surfing

    Votes: 1 2.8%
  • Spotlight

    Votes: 5 13.9%
  • Physics Context

    Votes: 6 16.7%

  • Total voters
    36
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stainmepink

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If there is one good book that i have missed out, please state what it is, and whether you like it or not. I'm trying to work out which book to use, as i've been through several and all of them aren't very appealing to me :(
 

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I've never used Jacaranda, but I found Excel quite good. It followed the syllabus points and had secondary source investigations done for you if you're too lazy to look the stuff up yourself. :)
 

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Jacaranda because Excel, Spotlight and Surfing aren't textbooks, and Contexts is a piece of shit.
 

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yeh jacaranda is basically the only textbook there is coz teh rest are basically revision guides so those are the best when u have upcoming trials/hsc
 

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Personally I find spotlight to be 10 times better than jacaranda. It has more depth and more questions but perhaps less relevance in some places. If you like the pretty pictures go for jacaranda but I think spotlight has more to offer you in the way of depth of information.
 

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Originally Posted by gobaby
If there is one good book that i have missed out, please state what it is, and whether you like it or not. I'm trying to work out which book to use, as i've been through several and all of them aren't very appealing to me
yeah, you forgot the MacMillan Physics one. but no big, it's not very good anyway.
 

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successone past papers.
 

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Physics Contexts

THis textbook smells real bad..choke if i look at diagrams

Go Jacaranda! (and BOS study notes :p)

ANdrew
 

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The only one I ever used was context, its where I developed all my notes from so I guess that'd be my choice
 

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The Maquarie text book is exceptionally good for understanding concepts and knowing your material. jacaranda is very good in going into extreme detail (sometimes more than required). Maquarie is very good, please also add that to the poll.
 

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excel is good for basics and jacaranda's good for the detail x)

but surfing should be burned ;__; half the answers are wrong and it REALLY starts to piss u off after a while....
 

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