How are any of you understanding Electrostatic and Electromagnetism in TBR

[Flapjacks]

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I read the chapter, and all of them are easy to understand or atleast when I get to the passages, if I do not understand, I will in time with the passages. But, Nope.

Any other supplemental information? This **** is killing me.

 

[sully677]

I read the chapter, and all of them are easy to understand or atleast when I get to the passages, if I do not understand, I will in time with the passages. But, Nope.

Any other supplemental information? This **** is killing me.

A interesting thing about BR passages is that the questions will throw new information at you, and then it will be explained in the solutions. I think this is particularly good because it stimulates your critical thinking skills without being supplied initial info. I was going through those passages today...finished them! They were good practice.

 

[Flapjacks]

I'm aware of what they do. The problem is I did not understand the concepts of the chapter.

 

[LostInStudy]

That's sort of the reason I hate BR physics. The passages are amazing but the content was crap. The best E & M section is with TPRH but it's 100 pages long. Even EK beat them out in that section but I think I heard BerkReviewTeach say that they completely redid it for the new books but I would suggest finding another source for that portion.

Hope this helps,

-LIS

 

[Flapjacks]

Thanks LIS I looked at my EK book, it was decent. I'll give that a try our use my physics text book if I have to.

 

[LostInStudy]

Be careful with the textbook though. If you don't understand something in EK or want more detail then look in the textbooks lightly in conjunction with the AAMC outline so you don't get to far into the details. You need to only read to understand what you have to do, after that you have work on problems and passages to hammer in the concepts and proper assumptions. I think the best quote I read in an MCAT book was "there's no such thing as trick questions, there's just wrong assumptions [by the student]." I think it was in TBR somewhere.

Glad this helped,

-LIS

 

[FrkyBgStok]

This may sound weird and I have no idea what other books are like but I was having the EXACT same problem with EK (electrostatic and electrmagnetism). I read the lecture again and took a lot of notes slowly, thinking about what I was writing down. I also purchased an MCAT Physics app for my ipod touch and these sections are hard to follow HOWEVER the do have problems and solutions as your are reading. This helped me understand, and when I took notes on that as well, it made much more sense.

 

[mzblue]

For Electricity and EM, i didn't understand my class notes so i turned to the berkeley review and it wasn't helpful. it took the Princeton review book to explain things to me better than my textbook or my instructors notes, and mind you my instructor puts up good notes. I would suggest studying that from TPR. That was the first exam this semester and i ended up getting a 100% on that one.