A solution manual tells you the steps. It almost never tells you why anyone would have tried those steps, which is the only part you actually need to learn.
Every problem here is worked in the same shape:
- What is being asked — restated in plain language, with the physical situation described before any symbol appears
- What we know — the givens, the assumptions, and explicitly which assumptions are doing real work
- Choosing an approach — the part solution manuals skip. Why energy conservation here rather than kinematics, and what would have happened if we had guessed wrong
- The work — every algebraic step, none of them called obvious
- Sanity check — units, limiting cases, and whether the number is the right size for the physical world
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Planned
Nothing is posted yet. The first sets will come from introductory mechanics and electromagnetism, since those are the courses I see students struggle in most, followed by thermodynamics and modern physics.
A request. If you are working a problem right now and stuck, send it to me at s.stockton@tcu.edu. Real problems that real students are stuck on are far more useful to write up than whatever I would pick on my own.