PHYS 2325:
Suggested Problems

These problems are selected from Young and Freedman, University Physics, 11th Edition. If you find yourself struggling with these, you should probably do some of this text's "Exercises" first. If you find yourself breezing through these, you probably have a good mastery of the material, and working this text's "Challenge Problems" would probably be a more valuable way to use your time.
If you have worked on any probelm (these or others) for half an hour without making progress, it is time to shift your attention to something else: an easier problem, simply a different problem, or even a different subject. A change of pace, returning to the particular problem later, should be helpful.
If you have once worked a problem correctly, it will probably not help your understanding very much to redo the same problem. You will need your physics understanding when you come up against something you haven't seen before; a problem you once worked through is no longer something you haven't seen before. (That's part of why physics texts have long prroblem lists: you learn the concept by struggling through some of the problems, then you can test your learning by seeing if other (similar) problems go faster.

Suggested Problems:
Ch. 1: 57, 58, 59, 63, 65, 71, 76, 79, 85, 86, 90, 91; notice that in 85, the given vectors are not physics vectors, they have no units.
Ch. 2: 59, 61, 73, 77, 85, 88, 91, 93. 93 can be done 'analytically' if you have completed a course in calculus; otherwise, you can do it approximately by using suitable graphs.
Ch. 3: 49, 59, 67, 76, 77, 81, 83, 85.
Ch. 4: 33, 39, 43, 45, 47, 49.
Ch. 5: 55, 59, 61, 67, 71, 83, 87, 91, 95, 96, 97, 109, 113, 117, 119.