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>> No. 5835 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 7:23 pm
5835 Stahs...
Without recommending that I go to a library or use Google, what entry level physics books are there? I know far less physics than I'd like to, I don't have zero knowledge of the subject but I don't really know where to start in terms of literature. I'd like something more readable than a textbook... Brief-history-of-everything-esque pop science books.
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>> No. 5836 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 7:34 pm
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This book is well worth a read, although it does fall closer to the realm of "toilet reading" than to hard science, it is accurate and well presented.

Otherwise it would depend on your current level of knowledge, GCSEs, A levels etc?
>> No. 5837 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 7:59 pm
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>>5836
I've read that and it's very enjoyable and I would recommend it to everybody, I was looking for something more hardcore though, I'm doing a chemistry degree.
>> No. 5838 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 9:02 pm
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>>5837
Don't you get taught QM in chemistry?

Anyway go buy or steal the Feynmann lectures on Physics, everyone says they're grand. And Feynmann is very good at explaining things.
>> No. 5839 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 11:37 pm
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>>5835

I'd say any DK book on the subject of Physics. I have one on the Human body which has better diagrams and almost as much information as my reading list textbook.
>> No. 5840 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 11:40 pm
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>>5839

Here's one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0789489236?pc_redir=1414105257&robot_redir=1

When you say Physics, do you mean the glamorous stuff or like waves and optics and basic stuff like that?
>> No. 5841 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 11:44 pm
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I want stuff on time, spacetime, origins of the universe, things like that... I'm not interested in classical physics unless it's relevant to those things really.

>>5838
Yes, but it pretty much all to do with the structure of the atom, wave-particle duality and molecular orbital theory. I want the exciting things.
>> No. 5842 Anonymous
21st November 2014
Friday 12:32 am
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>>5841
That sounds like you want a book on astrophysics.
>> No. 5843 Anonymous
21st November 2014
Friday 12:27 pm
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>>5842
Or cosmology.

I was doing an open at my old university and got talking to a young lad who was entirely disinterest in coming, but his mam was asking all sorts of questions about the course which I [del]was forced to[/del] gladly answered. In the middle of my description of the topics we covered over the three and four year programmes he interrupted to say "I'm only interested in particle physics".

The seventeen year old boy was the most arrogant person I've ever met.
>> No. 5844 Anonymous
21st November 2014
Friday 6:51 pm
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>>5841
>spacetime

To truly understand this, as well as related things like black-hole physics, requires a knowledge of tensor calculus and deferential geometry. They're not impossible to learn - not much harder than vector calculus really - but without it you can only do very hand-wavey descriptions.

As a chemist you'd probably find more utility reading up on advanced quantum and solid state physics, but far be it from me to discourage you.

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