- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Teach Yourself Books (28 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340845066
- ISBN-13: 978-0340845066
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,328,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For readers without any previous knowledge of the subject, this book provides an introduction to physics, covering the main branches of the subject and the key ideas that run through it. It also outlines important recent and past discoveries and wherever possible relates physics to familiar situations. Essential knowledge and formulae are highlighted, and the book provides a gradual introduction to the mathematical skills required.
About the Author
Jim Breithaupt is a physics teacher and an A-level examiner. He has a degree in physics and is a member of the Institute of Physics.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a balanced and well-written introduction to the subject.
It is to the author's credit that this relatively short book manages to cover a large number of areas in reasonable depth. Maths are kept to simple GCSE/Standard-Grade level, and the book balances factual content with readability very well.
Given the size and cost limitations of the 'Teach Yourself' format, this is an excellent book.
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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful
I made a mistake. Don't make the same one yourself.
2 Feb 2004
Format:Paperback
I cannot warn you strongly enough against buying this book. Were it possible, I would rate this at 0 stars. Supposedly it is written by an experienced professor and lecturer. If this is in fact true, I hope he no longer is employed by any reputable university. As a sophomore who has been away from school for some time, I bought this sight unseen from Amazon.com, intending to use it as a refresher prior to the end of my military service and before I re-entered college. I have found it riddled with factual errors, lacking in its depth and misguided in its focus.
The book attempts to introduce the reader to chemistry, then produces a table with the first 11 elements and their valences, leaving the rest unknown. It does the same for molecular physics, then states that an electron is 2000 times more massive than a proton. It touches on astronomy, then claims the Grand Canyon was created by a meteorite impact. It tries to discuss Einstein's concept of space-time, but does absolutely nothing for relating the actual formulae or demonstrating the concept in any way to help the reader understand it. The book does however waste the paper to discuss what would happen if the sun's mass was turned into a black hole, and how even though Sol's mass is unchanged, it would mysteriously begin sucking in nearby stars. It talks about the speed of light and refraction through a clear substance, then mentions two theories, one which claims light travels slower through denser materials, one which claims light moves faster- and never states which is correct.
Patrick from Sydney apparently meant to review another book, because this is certainly not a 500 page textbook. The 240 pages of material are in a comfortably large font, with little enough real information that each chapter can be read without difficulty in about the same time it takes to read a magazine article. There is no math beyond the most basic of algebra, with a single page devoted to the definition of sine, cosine and tangent so that Snell's law of refraction can even be brought up. The primary focus of this book seems to be a cursorary history of physics, but I would prefer reading a decent encyclopedia's individual entries than the thin overview presented in "Teach Yourself Physics." For the irrelevant discussion on the future of power generation in England and "blue sky research" that was out of date when this book went to the publisher, I would rather pick up a copy of Nature, Smithsonian or Omni.
I thoroughly regret wasting my money and time on this book and urge you not to do so as well.
teach youself physics
28 Oct 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
i expected an in depth look in to physics like the one on teach yourself calculus but instead it is a grammar school intro that has no depth or math
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
no book
9 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Iguess it would be "OK" however, I can't review becasue I never recieved the book from the amazon vendor.
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