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Title: Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein ISBN: 0-935218-08-4 Publisher: Insight Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fun book that should be in your library...
Comment: This book gets one excited about physics. Common physical phenoman like rate, speed, mass and force are explained in very ingenious ways. What is more the writing is good and to the point. Even though there is not much math to speak of the author explains things in a concise manner. What got me hooked to this book is that it does require thinking on part of the reader. One quickly finds out that what may seem intuitive and common sense is in fact precisely the wrong answer. Another major advantage of the book is that you do not have to read it from page one onwards. Turn to any segment and you are sure to be sucked in. Page after page is filled with nice little nuggets of fun. Get this book you will not regret it.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the Best
Comment: If you ever took a college class in physics, or maybe even high school, or ever wanted to understand physics, this is the book for you. I'm an electrical engineer, and my physics classes were 20 years ago, but I love this book. It really does make you think!! Buy it now (and get one for your friends).
Rating: 5
Summary: Learn physics without math
Comment: This is a jewel of a book. The latest second edition includes additional material on waves, which addresses a lack in the earlier edition. There are sections on optics, momentum, kinetic and potential energy, etc..
My favorite problem, and this is typical of the sort of material presented, is to decide whether or not a car suffers more damage in
A. hitting an immovable brick wall at 50 m.p.h.
B. having a head-on collision with an identical car both travelling at 50 m.p.h. ?
The usual response is to say B. However, Newton's 3rd law of motion, ("forces always act in pairs; if a exerts a force on b, then b exerts an equal and oppositely-directed force on a), maintains that the damage is the same, i.e., the wall strikes the car with the force of a head-on collision. This problem, by the way, is particularly juicy - I remember the head of a university physics department discussing this one at considerable length with two other physicists! (They more or less agreed, with provisos, that B. is indeed correct.)
The author encourages thinking without mathematics, to come to terms with the physical reality of what is occurring. This approach closely mirrors that of Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, who felt that mathematics was useful only as an adjunct to science and no substitute for clear thinking... A marvellous book.
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Title: Relativity Visualized by Lewis Carroll Epstein ISBN: 093521805X Publisher: Insight Press Pub. Date: April, 1985 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Flying Circus of Physics by Jearl Walker ISBN: 047102984X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 11 October, 1977 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Turning the World Inside Out and 174 Other Simple Physics Demonstrations by Robert Ehrlich, Jearl Walker ISBN: 0691023956 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 18 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Examkrackers MCAT Audio Osmosis with Jordan and Jon by Jonathan Orsay ISBN: 1893858235 Publisher: Osote Publishing Pub. Date: 05 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $199.95 |
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Title: Examkrackers Complete McAt Study Package by Jonathan Orsay ISBN: 1893858308 Publisher: Oso Pub Pub. Date: February, 1903 List Price(USD): $149.79 |
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