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Physics Made Simple (Made Simple (Broadway Books))

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I volunteer tutoring physics to grade 8 -9 students and was looking for a book that is less math and formula intense but more focused on principles with simple examples. I couldn't be happier to discover this book. It does require a grade 8 level of algebra, Geometry and trigonometry and does not expect you be math wiz!. If you don't have a grade 8 level of math then work on math first. Mathematics made simple is a recommendation, covers to about grade 10. Physics made simple does not mean mathematically ignorant.

i love this book it is by far the best book i found.that makes this very interesting subject easy to understand.i never took a school course in physics .yet i was able to complete the book in about a week and completely understand all the concepts.the book made physics really easy and fun.now that i finished this book i will better understand other books on physics.i hope many other people get to enjoy this book.

The "Made Simple" series isn't bad at all; the chemistry book is great and really helped me get into chemistry. However the Physics Made Simple is just way too simple. Much of introductory physics is common sense and far too many pages are given to simple concepts making the book an extremely cursory treatment of physics.

On the positive side, the experiments are interesting and useful.

I bought this book because I'm enrolled in Intro Physics as a prerequisite for a graduate program. I'll admit, I've been out of school for several years, but this book is definitely NOT easy. It (as many, many so-called "easy" books do) assumes that the reader already knows the basics of physics, algebra, and geometry/trigonometry. I know practically nothing about any of the previous subjects, so I needed a REAL basic presentation of physics....this book was not it.