"Understanding Physics" Book

[woolie]

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If other people are having trouble with the physics stuff (can that be possible?) I have found this book to be helpful: "Understanding Physics" by Isaac Asimov.

It's straight out of Phys I and Phys II coursework but it's better described and more a liberal arts interpretation. It's out of print but Amazon had it and I think it should be in most University libraries.

I find it helpful to flesh out the what the hey ... kind of questions, like with Electrostatics and work/energy and also Thermo and ... you get the picture.

Hope it helps!

 

[loomis]

thanks woolie. another good book is paul hewitt's conceptual physics. i took physics....did pretty well..but really did not know why the heck i was plugging in all these numbers into these odd looking formulas. After reading hewitt, I finally got a stronger understanding of the "why" in physics.

 

[Mudd]

Let me put up a second nomination for Hewitt. Between that and "The Way Things Work" by McCauley (sp?), you can get most anything and everything in the way of physics fully understood.

I enjoy Hewitt, because it simplifies concepts and presents great examples on how to think about things.