The homework problems are weakly sorted out by level, as this text isintended to support
non-physics science and pre-health profession students, engineers, and physics majors all three.
Thematerialcovered is of course the same for all three, but the level of detailand difficulty
of the math used and required is a bit different.
The textbook is entirely algebraic in its presentation and problem solving requirements – with
very few exceptionsno calculators should be required to solve problems. The author assumes
that any student taking physics is capable of punching numbers intoa calculator, but it is
algebrathat ultimately determines the formula that they should be computing. Numbers are
used in problems only to illustrate what “reasonable” numbers might be for a given real-
world physical situation or where the problems cannot reasonably be solved algebraically (e.g.
resistance networks).
