Feelings about EK Physics book.

[Jonari]

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Mr. Orsay, if you're reading this, I just want to say that you're books are phenomenal. They've helped me a lot thus far. However, Physics is my weak point.

I've searched a few threads, and found that many people recommend The Princeton Review's (TPR) and Berkley Review books for Physics. Just curious, but what is so great about those two books? If somebody could shed some light on it, I'd greatly appreciate it. 🙂

 

[sunmoonstar]

I was also struggling with EK Physics, but I had heard about NOVA Physics and it has been a life saver for me.

NOVA Physics breaks down all the concepts in a nice easy to read/follow format, so that you can actually understand what is going on and how to do the problems on your own.

In the second week of EK 10 week study schedule I realized that EK Physics just wasn't going to cut it for me and completely switched over to the NOVA Physics. I covered 2-3 chapters a week and it has helped so much.

I would highly recommend it.

 

[christian15213]

Mr. Orsay, if you're reading this, I just want to say that you're books are phenomenal. They've helped me a lot thus far. However, Physics is my weak point.

I've searched a few threads, and found that many people recommend The Princeton Review's (TPR) and Berkley Review books for Physics. Just curious, but what is so great about those two books? If somebody could shed some light on it, I'd greatly appreciate it. 🙂

have you taken practice AAMC tests... because if not please hold one's judgement.

 

[BrokenGlass]

Mr. Orsay, if you're reading this, I just want to say that you're books are phenomenal. They've helped me a lot thus far. However, Physics is my weak point.

I've searched a few threads, and found that many people recommend The Princeton Review's (TPR) and Berkley Review books for Physics. Just curious, but what is so great about those two books? If somebody could shed some light on it, I'd greatly appreciate it. 🙂

EK gives you a good foundation for understanding the concepts. Berkeley Review does a lot more than that and in additioin gives you questions written in passage format.

 

[Onegin]

Mr. Orsay, if you're reading this, I just want to say that you're books are phenomenal. They've helped me a lot thus far. However, Physics is my weak point.

I've searched a few threads, and found that many people recommend The Princeton Review's (TPR) and Berkley Review books for Physics. Just curious, but what is so great about those two books? If somebody could shed some light on it, I'd greatly appreciate it. 🙂

I mentioned this in another thread, but basically the EK books are a review, and people need to remember that fact. The EK Physics 1001 book is a great and thorough run-through of concepts and ideas. If you have a weak area of physics I would go through the EK books and then read through the relevant chapters of your lecture textbook from school for sections that you have trouble with. Work through tons of practice problems from both your text and the EK 1001 books. I do not have any experience with either TPR or BR so I can't speak for those.