• Discussion questions are found at the end of each chapter. • Free, downloadable study guide. • Sixth book in the series with over 150,000 in print. • Home school educators will appreciate this latest installment. The latest installment of the wildly successful “Exploring” series, this textbook supplement explains physics in remarkably clear detail. Complemented with black-and-white illustrations, the book uses ordinary speech to explain the concepts of physics. The author’s goal is to “write at a 6th grade level, but explain the concepts so that a motivated 4th grader can understand the material.” Physics equations and formulas are kept to a minimum. The author starts with the simple and goes on to the complex, and the development is somewhat historical in nature, but is intended to be an introductory book for beginning physics students. Material of a more difficult nature is found in sidebars entitled “For More Study.”
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John Hudson Tiner is a lifelong educator, and has acquired a reputation for writing clearly about science. He has wide-ranging interests, and has also written about American history and several of the sciences. He and his wife, Jeanene, live in Missouri.
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John Hudson Tiner is the author of textbooks, science curriculum material, character-building biographies, and books on a variety of other subjects. His books entertain while they increase a person's knowledge of the essentials of the subject. He has a master's degree from Duke University. He brings a wide range of exciting facts together to write more than 1,000 published manuscripts, including 80 books, for all age groups.
He is well known for his books for teens and young people including the "Exploring the World of" series for Master book and the Sowers Series for Mott Media. He says, "Young readers of today deserve to experience the thrill and wonder of learning about science. They delight in learning new facts, especially if the facts are presented in an exciting way."
John Hudson Tiner's popular biographies tell the lives of people who left the world in a better condition than they found it. He says, "After the research is finished, a wonderful moment occurs when the story takes over and the characters come alive. I am no longer a writer, but a time traveler who stands unobserved in the shadows and reports the events as they occur."
His material has been translated into a variety of languages including Spanish, Russian, and German.
He is well known for his books for teens and young people including the "Exploring the World of" series for Master book and the Sowers Series for Mott Media. He says, "Young readers of today deserve to experience the thrill and wonder of learning about science. They delight in learning new facts, especially if the facts are presented in an exciting way."
John Hudson Tiner's popular biographies tell the lives of people who left the world in a better condition than they found it. He says, "After the research is finished, a wonderful moment occurs when the story takes over and the characters come alive. I am no longer a writer, but a time traveler who stands unobserved in the shadows and reports the events as they occur."
His material has been translated into a variety of languages including Spanish, Russian, and German.
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I bought this book for my 12 (almost 13) year-old son so that he could study Physics on his own over the summer. He really seems to enjoy the book, he carries it with him on drives, etc. and now spouts physics facts at the breakfast table. He chooses this book over Wii and TV. Now THAT'S kewl! I highly recommend this book - for adults too.
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I bought this book for my High School daughter, to prepare her for her physics class. It's an excellent starting point for physics, covers most of the basics. While her teacher spends most of his time lecturing against our President and the war in Iraq, my daughter has learned more from this book than in the classroom. It's laid out much better and covers more than her school textbook. Highest recommendation!
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This book makes the world of physics very pleasant due to the way of the themes are shown. The correlaction between the nature with the history of the concept discovering by the reknown scientists make the physics a simpler game of watching the surrounding nature. Practical examples are great and substantial. The author was wise of type writing such as the way he did, mixing history, complex / simple concepts and gathering all of these in a structured way. It is not a sophisticated physics book with several formulas e integrals but rather a good and interesting wide introductory view of physics
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Physics is the science that explores how energy acts on matter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Isaac Newton, United States, Albert Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, Royal Society, Johannes Kepler, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Can You Propose Solutions, Nobel Prize, Alexander the Great, Daniel Fahrenheit, Enrico Fermi, James Watt, Max Planck, Rudolf Hertz, William Gilbert, World War, Anders Celsius, Arthur Compton, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Bernoulli, Joseph Henry, Thomas Young New!
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Isaac Newton, United States, Albert Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, Royal Society, Johannes Kepler, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Can You Propose Solutions, Nobel Prize, Alexander the Great, Daniel Fahrenheit, Enrico Fermi, James Watt, Max Planck, Rudolf Hertz, William Gilbert, World War, Anders Celsius, Arthur Compton, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Bernoulli, Joseph Henry, Thomas Young New!
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