crubbish Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Well, my end of years are coming, and its time to start cramming and getting a proper textbook rather then referring off the notes guides. i do both Chem and Physic HL. If i am not wrong theres currently two different books that our teacher encourages us to use. One of them is the books under oxford the 'course companion' one the other one is from the australia. not too sure, but i will get more info on it. Oh, and thanks in advance! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeBlake Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 [quote name='crubbish' post='23449' date='Sep 6 2008, 10:33 PM']Well, my end of years are coming, and its time to start cramming and getting a proper textbook rather then referring off the notes guides. i do both Chem and Physic HL. If i am not wrong theres currently two different books that our teacher encourages us to use. One of them is the books under oxford the 'course companion' one the other one is from the australia. not too sure, but i will get more info on it. Oh, and thanks in advance![/quote] I don't take physics, but I am in Chem HL. So far, I haven't really relied on text for a lot of the topics, but I found Zumdahl very helpful for calorimetry (awesome if your G4 involves that topic), I also heard a lot of good comments about Oxford Revision notes. Yupps, Chemistry Companion is a good one, it's by George Neuss Advanced Chemistry - Augston and Flemming General Chemistry by Linus Pauling (or was it Linus and Pauling) but yeah...these are the textbooks most people recommended me...hopefully it's helpful for all the CHem HLs out there.... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crubbish Posted September 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 thanks dude, i shall try to hunt down the chem textbooks. sorry for the late reply, was slogging the past 2 nights doing world lit and maths portfolio. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aye-landor Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 (edited) There are also some books called "Subject" for the IB diploma (e.g Biology for the IB diploma), which I find mighty helpful. They are published by Oxford, so they have to be of some quality. Edited September 11, 2008 by aye-landor Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solarstorm Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 I think for Physics - one of the good books is Physics for the IB Diploma by Tolkein Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazsupb Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 A really helpful Bio Textbook that my school uses is the Campbell Biology 6th edition Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel6 Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 [quote name='Solarstorm' post='24263' date='Sep 15 2008, 05:24 AM']I think for Physics - one of the good books is Physics for the IB Diploma by Tolkein[/quote] We use this. It's published by Cambridge. It's actually really helpful. Our gr 12 physics teacher cannot teach, so most people study off that textbook. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouser Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 (edited) Our school had no text book, we depended entirely on the teacher. Even though our teacher has a master in Nuclear Physics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (Mashallah), I didn't think it was right to depend entirely on him, especially in IB. So I bought "Physics for the IB Diploma" by K. A. Tsokos (Fifth Edition). (Oxford Press) With complete honesty and not one bit of exaggeration, it is the best physics book I have come across in my entire life and I'm pretty sure it will be the best book I'll come across. (That's until they release the Sixth Edition, then I presume that will be the best) Even though it's monochrome, only black and white, and the physical book quality (as in the cover and etc) is CRAP, but the way the material inside is explained is just amazing! I recommend that book, buy it. And for those who have the same book and disagree with me... Try reading from the beginning of the book WITHOUT SKIPPING A SINGLE LINE (and by that, I mean every single line. Don't skip anything you think you know, trust me there's stuff you wouldn't have known) and keep going till you reach the chapter about electricity and magnetism and you'll see what I mean. You'll feel you were stupid, with so much you didn't know before about the simplest of things. ISBN: 978-0-521-70820-3 Edited October 6, 2008 by Anonymouser Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 Advanced Chemistry - Augston and Flemming Higher Level Biology (developed specifically for the IB diploma) - Damon, McGonegal, Tosto, Ward Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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