PhysicsTutor Excalibur |  | From: Interactive Learning, Inc.
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $35.99
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 2041
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.7 x 1.6
UPC: 664746102031
EAN: 0664746102031
ASIN: B00062PTJ4
Release Date: September 7, 2004
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| Features:
| • | Interactive physics course | | • | Covers high school and first-year college physics | | • | 20 subject areas with comprehensive tutorials | | • | Interactive quizzes and a range of practice exams | | • | Helps raise grades and test scores |
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Product Description
PhysicsTutor Excalibur is a complete, interactive physics tutorial on CD that covers the full physics curriculum from high school physics through the first two semesters of college physics. PhysicsTutor Excalibur teaches physics using a unique, time-saving approach that students really like. PhysicsTutor Excalibur teaches each of the concepts of physics by way of example. This puts each concept into context for a student and makes the concepts easier to understand. Students find this approach much more understandable than the approach that most textbooks take in which concepts are explained in only abstract terms. Here is how PhysicsTutor Excalibur works: 1. First, it breaks down the study of physics into 20 manageable subject areas. 2. When you select a tutorial in one of these 20 subject areas, PhysicsTutor Excalibur displays a question that you will need to be able to answer once you have mastered that subject area of physics. If you already understand how to solve that type of problem, you can go ahead and answer it. However, if you have no idea how to answer that question, you can click on the LEARN button. 3. This will bring up a screen that explains the concept associated with that question and shows you how to, in general, approach that type of question. 4. Then try to answer the question. If you still have difficulty with the question, click on the EXPLANATION button. 5. This will bring up a screen that shows you, in detail, how to solve that specific problem. 6. After you have correctly answered a question, click on the NEXT QUESTION button. 7. Depending on the difficulty of the concept, this will either display another similar question associated with that same concept or a new question that is associated with another concept in that subject area. Compared to reading a traditional physics textbook, PhysicsTutor Excalibur is a much more efficient and effective way to learn physics.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 36
 College was the first time I'd EVER had physics. This was EXTREMELY useful. February 11, 2009
Hopeless Romantic (Chicago, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Our PhysicsTutor® Excalibur software includes physics tutorials in each of the following 20 subject areas:
1. Displacement, Velocity & Acceleration
2. Vectors & Projectile Motion
3. Forces & Friction
4. Energy
5. Momentum
6. Circular Motion & Gravitation
7. Rotational Motion
8. Harmonic Motion
9. Waves
10. Thermodynamics
11. Electric Charge & Electric Fields
12. Electric Circuits
13. Magnetism
14. Electromagnetism
15. Light
16. Lenses & Mirrors
17. Physical Optics
18. Relativity
19. Quantum Physics
20. Particle Physics (The Standard Model)
Great! August 26, 2007
A. I. Betancourt (N ew Haven, CT)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
PhysicsTutor Excalibur is a great way to develop and test knowledge of basic concepts in physics, throughout high school and even in college. As a high school sophomore, I swore by ChemTutor Excalibur to help me prepare for chapter tests, midterms, and finals. Because of that experience, I thought of PhysicsTutor as a freshman at Yale taking advanced introductory physics courses. I knew I needed something to help me with the more basic concepts behind the complicated homework and exam questions I was struggling to answer.
While the things I learned through PhysicsTutor Excalibur did not relate as closely to the material I was being tested on as it did in my chemistry class as a high school student, PhysicsTutor still provided me with the information I needed to fully grasp many basic concepts. Although some of the answers it gave seemed very specific to the question I was being asked, in many cases I could backtrack to figure out which general equation I should have been using, and could do whatever mathematical approach I needed to do (integration, etc.) to match their solution. The screen display did not bother me at all--what does a fancy background have to do with learning physics? I think PhysicsTutor Excalibur is a great learning tool when partnered with a textbook. Practicing problems, which is what PhysicsTutor has you do, is the best way to fully master physics.
I plan to keep utilizing PhysicsTutor Excalibur as I continue in my college career as a Physics and Astronomy major at Yale.
 Awful -- looks bad and doesn't teach you August 4, 2007
Natalie Mootz (Huntington Beach, CA)
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
What a waste of money. This thing looks like it was written for DOS computers. (Most kids today have probably never seen or heard of DOS!) Not only is it awful to look at but it's method of "teaching" is to test you and then tell you what you did wrong. You can't choose what types of problems to work on, just general categories. I wish I'd never bought it. Go with Schaum's Easy Outline for Physics instead.
 Book with Solutions Manual is Better March 24, 2007
J. A. CIPRA (Kansas)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am a senior in college, and like a lot of people I put off the Physics requirements until the very end. I have found it very difficult to keep myself interested in the course, because the homework assignments are so long and tedious. So, I purchased Excalibur hoping it would be entertaining while teaching me Physics at the same time. Well, it's not very entertaining and I find it very difficult to actually learn Physics from it. The program is good at covering the basic concepts, so you understand the rules being applied. As far as working with the Math, it is extremely lacking. If you are like me and get the general concepts, but have problems applying the math, then, this disc is not for you. Pencil, paper, a textbook, and maybe a solutions manual to verify you are headed in the right direction, are much more effective study tools.
PhysicsTutor Excalibur November 3, 2006
Dudung
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great product,I can't wait to buy the rest of the set!
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