{"id":210,"date":"2018-04-01T12:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/?p=210"},"modified":"2018-04-01T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:42:54","slug":"preface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/preface\/","title":{"rendered":"Preface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Preface<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the textbook for the course Physics 110: Introduction to Physics at Olympic College, designed to familiarize students with the concepts and problem-solving skills of physics. The level of the course falls somewhere between a purely conceptual physics course (usually only one term, with virtually no mathematics) and the first term of an algebra-based General Physics sequence (often called \u201cCollege Physics&#8221; and covering a full academic year).<\/p>\n<p>A conceptual physics course provides thought-provoking and qualitative explanations of the physics of everyday phenomena. These types of courses are an excellent introduction to viewing the world around you in a new light, but they do not have the mathematical rigor that is required to solve quantitative problems.<\/p>\n<p>In this book, you will find qualitative descriptions of physics concepts, derivations of some of the equations we will use as tools to solve problems, worked example problems, and practice problems.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dan Roth<\/p>\n<p>Olympic College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preface This is the textbook for the course Physics 110: Introduction to Physics at Olympic College, designed to familiarize students with the concepts and problem-solving skills of physics. The level of the course falls somewhere between a purely conceptual physics <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/preface\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.compclassnotes.com\/rothphys110\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}