Preparation guide for

IPhO
LEVEL 1
 Foreword

The Preparation guides for IPhO are intended to help everyone who
wants to achieve a good result on IPhO. As for all others fields of science,
most important thing will be hard work. I believe that everyone has a
natural instinct to understand physics, the only difference in-between
students is the time spent working hard on that subject. The expression
''hard work'' is inappropriate for physics. If you don't make it for yourself a
enjoyable task to do, you are doing it wrong and chances are that you
won't achieve your goal.

This book will contain a lot of external links connected to my Google

Drive, YouTube and other internet sides. If you have the opportunity to
download all of the material-do it so. A summary of the links will be given
on another page. I will try to be active updating and improving those
books.

There will be several books divided in levels. The goal of it is to

accommodate to as many students as possible because their level of
knowledge of physics and math is different. You can take a test that will
give you the right level or you can look up by your own and find a level
that suites you. Even if I will use English, some problem books will be in
Bosnian but dont worry, they are just translations of the original English
ones.

In each book I will try to build up a structure; first the lesson part,
videos, instruction and then the problem part where will be given problems
recommendations from problem books. I will try to cover all of the syllabus
for IPhO except the experimental part.

So, good luck studying the best subject in the world-physics.

Bahrudin Trbali

LEVEL 1
This level will include non-calculus, short physics problems. This
is the key level to success. If you find it hard to do the
problems, do them less than 60% you should go to the beginner
level. Even this level will be divided into 3 sublevels according
to their difficulty. Problems without the asterisk are the easy
ones, more difficult are with one (*) and really hard with (**).
Important is to notice that all of the problems are doable and
obligatory if you want to be prepared for IPhO. If you know
calculus it would be easier for you to get through this level but
try to do the problems both ways- with and without calculus.
The most important thing to learn is creativity and
understanding of physics rather than mathematical virtuosity or
speed of working.'' as in the syllabus is noted.

The resources needed for this level are:

Physics for Scientists and Engineers with
Modern Physics, 8th edition
https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0BzJxeSXV2SDJSk9GVTVlWG5fbnM

eMovi (Bosanski): https://drive.google.com/open?

id=0BzJxeSXV2SDJfmNCckRkUllNaTFNZmFlVDh4aWxUeHh
2YkVMY1VvcXJEX2p2aDlyM2dFM2c
 Problems in elementary physics:
https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0BzJxeSXV2SDJcE00MUx2WE5hb1E

Cambridge problems in physics

https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0BzJxeSXV2SDJdWx3aGswUnNmZDA

Zbirka rijeenih zadataka iz fizike (Bosnian)

https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0BzJxeSXV2SDJQjI1RS1sdHVBbkE

Zbirka zadataka iz fizike-Vii kurs D (dimi)

https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0BzJxeSXV2SDJNkFwdFpRYTRpTGM

I.E.Irodov Problems in general physics

https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0BzJxeSXV2SDJfmpRNEFCSC1zMm5QREd5MkRFNUttc0
g5LWdPRnlmNnYwREtkSVlsaE94WHM
(book): https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0BzJxeSXV2SDJWG5SU2l0N2ptTHc
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Video lectures from MIT, Walter Lewin on YouTube:

8.01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Uo28HOrhipc&list=PLUdYlQf0_sSsb2tNcA3gtgOt8LGH6tJ
br
8.02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El3g9XtZ-
iA&list=PLUdYlQf0_sSsfcNOPSNPQKHDhSjTJATPu

Interactive simulation tool.

http://www.algodoo.com/download/