Giancoli Solutions on Video
Learn physics easily with guided practice.
7th Edition Solutions 6th Edition Solutions Global Edition Solutions
Features
- 1,930 video solutions for all regular problems in Giancoli's 7th Edition and 1,681 solutions for most regular problems in the 6th Edition.
Final answer provided in text form for quick reference above each video, and formatted nicely as an equation, like $E=mc^2$. This is useful if you are in the library or have a slow internet connection.
- Pen colors make the step-by-step solutions clear. Red is used to illustrate algebra steps, and to substitute numeric values in the final step of a solution. When a solution switches to a new train of thought a different pen color emphasizes the switch, so that solutions are very methodical and organized.
- Solutions are classroom tested, and created by an experienced physics teacher.
- Videos are delivered with a high performance content delivery network. No waiting for videos to load or buffer.
- Pause, rewind, repeat, and never miss what is being said.
Sample solution
Giancoli 7th Edition, Chapter 5, Problem 12
(4:49)
Trusted by more than 3,600 students
Cydney
Mr. Dychko, your answers and videos helped raise my grade from failing to a B and I really appreciate your website for that. Physics does not come naturally to me by any means and to be able to use your website to pass my class means more to me than words can describe. Chegg wasn't sufficient and my professor wasn't available for extra help, so I consider your website to be the sole reason I passed my class. Thank you.
Kim, Tunxis Community College in Farmington, CT
The videos were extremely helpful. You can play them over and over and pause them to review. The narrator explained the steps beautifully and provided details on performing the algebraic manipulations. Different colored pens made it easy to differentiate steps. My Physics teacher often moved through the material very fast in class. The videos allowed me to review areas I found difficult as many times as I needed. Giancoli Answers was a wonderful learning tool for understanding Physics.
Jasmine, University of Pennsylvania
Hello Mr Dychkko,
You are absolutely incredible!! Thank you immensely for sharing your wealth of knowledge with the rest of the world. Your videos have helped me get through physics in college, and I could not have passed my classes without you. Your step-by-step explanations were always so easy to follow, and helped me understand why we would go about a question a certain way. Thank you for helping me develop better skills to improve as a student! It is very apparent that you truly care about both physics and helping students learn and I wish more professors were like you! Once again, thank you so much and best of luck on all of your future endeavors!!!
Melinda McKinney, Coconino Community College, Flagstaff, Arizona
As a Physics Instructor for the first time at a Community College, I found this resource incredibly helpful for my students and I highly recommend it to anyone using Giancoli's Textbook.
Recent questions and answers
7th Edition Solutions 6th Edition Solutions Global Edition Solutions
Giancoli 7th Edition, Chapter 19, Problem 24
By aquaoasis14 on Wed, 04/18/2018 - 18:01why did the R disappear finding the currents to the after problem?(the last problem)
Giancoli 7th Edition, Chapter 22, Problem 14
By william.g.parker on Wed, 04/04/2018 - 15:46You wrote 0.314 as the answer for B instead of 0.341
Fixed! Thank you!
Giancoli 7th Edition, Chapter 1, Problem 28
By abgoooor201596 on Tue, 04/03/2018 - 02:10Why your not estimating the Numbers 362 and 76 to one SIGFIG. ?
Hello, these are good questions. 365 days / year is a definition, so it's precise to three significant figures. 78 years / lifetime is an estimate, and personal opinion says that being precise to the "ones" place is appropriate, but it's just an opinion. Keep in mind that you never round numbers until the final answer. If you round before, even if a number such as 78 should be 80 since it has one significant figure, suppose, you would still nevertheless do calculations with 78, not 80. Only final answers get rounded, otherwise your calculation has an intermediate rounding error, which is to say that the calculation will be dramatically different only on account of rounding, not because any quantities have actually changed.
Hope that helps,
Mr. Dychko
Hmmm, that's a thought provoking example. The goal is always to make your calculation as precise as appropriate. Avoiding intermediate rounding error is normally part of that. However, example 1-6 illustrates that if the surrounding values have only one significant figure, as is the case with educated guesses, having only one significant figure in pi is acceptable since, in this context, greater precision isn't called for on account of the other imprecise quantities in the calculation. Think of these significant figure rules as guidelines which are open to interpretation, not as firm rules.
All the best,
Mr. Dychko
Ok That is good idea
but remember the example (Example 1–6) (How much water is in this lake?) in the book . he is rounded the value of pi to 3
is he rounded for to be 1 SIGFIG or other reason since pi is also in term of (definition) as you mentioned above ?
Thanks
Giancoli 7th Edition, Chapter 1, Problem 25
By abgoooor201596 on Tue, 04/03/2018 - 01:28hi I've a question
How we gona apply this idea with this Number 3.0*10^0
Thank You
Hi abgoooor201596, $3.0 \times 10^0$ has 2 significant figures.
Cheers,
Mr. Dychko
Giancoli 7th Edition, Chapter 8, Problem 41
By theovilous on Sat, 03/31/2018 - 10:31The actual marry-go-round disk is the total weight - two persons. Which is 560-50 = 510 kg. So, Wouldn't the moment of inertia have to be (2.5)^2(510/2 + 2(25)? I don't understand why you used 560 when calculating the moment of inertia.
Hi theovilous, thanks for the question. What I'm seeing is that the text says
which gives 560kg as the mass of the merry-go-round disk, not including the children. Perhaps you read that differently and interpreted that the children were included in the 560kg?
Best wishes,
Mr. Dychko
I read the question wrong! thanks for pointing that out! Thank you so much as always!!
Giancoli 7th Edition, Chapter 14, Problem 26
By chaegyunkang on Wed, 03/07/2018 - 18:41I am very confused about how the water can evaporate in room temperature. I know that the water cannot reach 100 celsius from our skin but how can water just evaporate in room temp?
Hi chaegyunkang, nice question! It turns out that temperature is an average kinetic energy of the particles of the substance. Water at $100^\circ \textrm{ C}$ has molecules with an average kinetic energy sufficient to turn into gas, so many of them do really quickly, and we observe this as boiling. Water at, say, $20^\circ \textrm{ C}$ also has some molecules with enough kinetic energy to turn into gas, but not very many, so we don't see anything special such as bubbles or steam. Nevertheless those few molecules with enough energy to do so turn into gas. This is what's responsible for evaporation, and eventually the luke warm water will all turn to gas for this reason.
Even ice evaporates! A full ice cube tray in your freezer will eventually have much smaller ice cubes after months since some of the molecules have enough kinetic energy to turn into a gas, even though the average kinetic energy is such that the molecules are in the ice phase.
All the best,
Mr. Dychko
Giancoli 7th Edition, Chapter 8, Problem 58
By aquaoasis14 on Sun, 03/04/2018 - 19:42why did you multiply it by 4?
Hi aquaoasis14, thanks for the question. At the 2:00 minute mark in the video, I multiply by 4 since 4 is the lowest common denominator of the fractions in the equation. Doing this gets rid of the fractions since, as a matter of personal opinion, they're annoying! It would be possible to solve the equation just fine while keeping the fractions, if you prefer. The last term in the equation has 1/2 multiplied by 1/2 (making 1/4), keep in mind, so that's why I needed to multiply by 4 instead of 2.
Hope that helps,
Mr. Dychko
Giancoli 7th Edition, Chapter 14, Problem 7
By chaegyunkang on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 16:50If the question asked for amount of water, is it okay to end with kg of water? Thank You.
Hi chaegyunkang, it looks to me like the question is asking for mass per time, which means there needs to be units of mass divided by time, which could be kg / hr, but not just kg.
All the best,
Mr. Dychko
See more comments