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Study Resources.

While I could have written one of these myself, others have already done a great job of stating what you need to do in a basic physics course. So here are some links to pages that have study tips all spelled out for you.

Dolores Gende:
How to Study Physics.

Study Tips
for Introductory Physics Students.

Study Skills
from the University of Connecticut.

(See especially the Physics Study Skills Self-Survey.)

Study Tips:
Preparing for Physics Exams.

How to Succeed
in Introductory Physics.

(It's for a calculus-based course, but some of the same principles apply.)


Trigonometry Review

We may not be able to review trigonometry for you in as much detail as you need, so here are some sites that will help you.

An Introduction to Trigonometry.
Everything you need for College Physics and then some is reviewed here.

SOS Mathematics:
math review material

(You can even find a link to someone who will do your homework for fifty dollars an hour!) I got pop-up ads with this one.

The Math Page.
A community college instructor's nifty review page.

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Dr. Heather
Woolverton
Spring, 2004

WHAT DIS?

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Ready to Rove.

"America's Spirit rover has landed in an arid enclave of Mars that is tantalisingly out of reach of the region's most promising sediments and rocks, dismayed scientists have discovered," Science Editor Robin McKie reports for Guardian Unlimited.

Robot Scientist

A team of U.K. scientists has developed a robot scientist to do their job for them," Gillian Law reports from London. "The robot, and the computer system with which it works, have been developed to help generate hypotheses about the function of particular genes on baker's yeast, and then carry out experiments to test them."

How Cold Is It?

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have cooled a sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded — only half-a-billionth of a degree above absolute zero.

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Antimatter Surprises

A solar flare can create up to a pound of antimater, the Astrophysical Journal Letters reports in an overview of a project drawing data from NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) spacecraft.