Book description
This concise and accessible resource offers new college students, especially those in science degree programs, guidance on engaging successfully with the classroom experience and skillfully tackling technical or scientific questions
Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Author Biography
- 1 On Encountering a Problem
- 2 The Logic of the Problem: Good Thinking and Its Rewards
- 3 Solutions in Words: Answering Short Answer Questions
- 4 Making Textbooks Pay
- 5 Solutions in Numbers: Basic Mathematical Procedures
- 6 Practical Solutions: Science in the Laboratory
- 7 Spreading the Word
- 8 Persisting against Problems
- Appendix I Additional Notes on Matrices and Matrix Algebra
- Appendix II Thinking about Vectors: Basic Notes
- Appendix III Safe Problem-Solving
- Index
Product information
- Title: How to Solve A Problem
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2023
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781000860122
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