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Summary: Honest and clear teaching
Review: It's amazing the capability of being clear and to get to the right point. Ingeneous! I recommend for every one who search for learn physics, even those who already studied it!
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Summary: Very Useful Book
Review: No, this isn't a perfect book. Some of Lewis' explanations are a bit vague and some are incomplete but despite these minor flaws this book does a wonderful job of explaining important concepts of physics in very simple terms.I can't think of anyone who wouldn't benefit from reading this book. Oh yes, it's a fun read too!
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Summary: Wonderful. Engaging. Terrific explanations.
Review: Not a textbook, and probably not like any physics books you've seen. The book consists of asking a question that gets you thinking, and then explaining the answer. And the explanation really helps you to understand the problem more deeply.A great book to feed the curiosity.
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Summary: I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
Review: Thinking Physics is the best -- if not the only -- effective way to discover the light Physics sheds on the way the world works. The books format is simple, but the questions are intellectually challenging and the visuals and explanations are clear and concise. My only regret about Thinking Physics is that I didn't take a class in the subject from a teacher like Epstein
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Summary: A deceivingly simple introduction to Physics
Review: Thinking Physics is the best -- if not the only -- effective way to discover the light Physics sheds on the way the world works. The books format is simple, but the questions are intellectually challenging and the visuals and explanations are clear and concise. My only regret about Thinking Physics is that I didn't take a class in the subject from a teacher like Epstein
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Summary: A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF WHAT'S BEEN PUZZLING YOU !
Review: THINKING PHYSICS is the CLASSIC COMICS of CLASSICAL PHYSICS.
Without the Mickey Mouse Stuff. It is chuck full of Ideas, Diagrams,and Illustrations.
In real life a question about Physics occurs to a child or a Scientist and later, if ever,the child or Scientist finds the answer. In School Life you're taught the answers, and the question, the Exam, comes later.
In THINKING PHYSICS, as in real Life,the Question comes first. And when the answer comes, it cuts directly to the problem's bottom line.
There is an easy way to explain anything - its just hard to find. THINKING PHYSICS is a collection of what Lewis Epstein has found - illustated with a picture or two on every page.
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Summary: A fun book that should be in your library...
Review: 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.
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Summary: A fun book that should be in your library...
Review: 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.
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Summary: This is the Best
Review: 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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Summary: Learn physics without math
Review: 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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