what's the best physics' book you had read?
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Personally I liked "Physics and Philosophy" and "Physics and Beyond" by Heisenberg.  The latter is Heisenberg's autobiography, but it has some interesting ideas in it.  I also like a multiple volume set of books called  "The World of Physics: A small library of the literature of physics from antiquity to the present" There are a lot of excerpts dealing with historically important discoveries in physics.  It tends to go somewhat easy on the math too.  More recent popular books are "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, and "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene.
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"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.\n\nIt's a classic tale depicting two forms of prejudice and demonstrating why prejudice is wrong and ofteb borne of ignorance. It's been taught in American and British schools for the last 30 years and is considered a modern classic.\n\nIt's also my favorite non-science-fiction book... EVER!
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Here's a great source of free books (audiobooks as well):\n\nhttp://www.gutenberg.org\n\nHere's some other links I've collected over time:\n\nhttp://totallyfreemath.com/math.html\nhttp://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1240.html\nhttp://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html\nhttp://www.physicsforfree.com\nhttp://www.lightandmatter.com/area1book1.html
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YES!!! "Biblical Mathematics"!!! \nAWESOME AND STAYS AWAY FROM NUMEROLOGY!!\n\nI had it but gave it to a minister who teaches College Physics. He was ecstatic! \n\nMine also came with a cassette so you could listen to it as well! \n\nHow awesome! God just brought that book to my mind today, making me feel as though I should get another one and read it again...and now you ask this? Hmmmmm
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I think it is the best\n\nhttp://www.physicsclassroom.com\n\ninside the website\nmotion\nphysics tutorial > 1d kinematics\n\nforce\nNewtons laws
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*Ender's Game is indeed a great book by a great author. Also I reccomend Madeleine L'Engle, the author of "A Wrinkle in Time" among others.
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They rated quantum feild theory as a 5-star book
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I would reccomend a book called "Schroedinger's Cat" and another called "Schoedinger's Kittens".  Maybe they are the same book, but I read the latter.  It is an easy to read piece of literature about Quantum theory.  \n\nMy girlfriend also has encouraged me to read "Mr Tompkins in Paperback" which covers a wide variety of Science topics, including Quantum theory.  \n\nGood luck and have fun.
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I like physics. thats how the universe is formed. it is god languge. Most physicist got to know god and his wonders through physics.Physics is the language of the universe. Aliens if there is any can understand physics. Maths is the mother of physics.
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Maxwell compiled the first comprehensive description of electromagnetic wave propagation based on half a dozen partial results from contemporary sources.\n\nCommonly called "Maxwell's Equations"
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Good but a bit outdated. \n\nWinning with People by J. Maxwell is good.  Making Rain by A. Sobel is good too.
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when i was a kid i had a great book, called "powers of ten".  it was one of those time-life books or something and it mainly consisted of a series of photographs or illustrations, where each page was zoomed in by a factor of 10 from the page before it.  in the middle was a picture of a man sleeping in some grass in a park in chicago, and if you went forward you zoomed down all the way in to his protons and quarks, and if you went backwards you zoomed all the way out to the mass of galaxies.\n\nit really is an excellent book for kids, and a great thing to just stare at and wonder.  see the link on amazon below.
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Physics ........ Is that what you are looking for?
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Hello there. Funny you mention this because, as a boy, the first truly inspiring text I read was the Tao Te Ching. I still find myself reading it, at least in part, once a week. This text is so simple yet profound it put me on a path to seek out even more esoteric knowledge. I have also studied the writings of Confucius, the Vedic texts  of India, Buddhism,  Zen, Shinto, Suffic Islam, etc. All in all, the Tao really opened my eyes to a deeper understanding of things. I can read about Quantum Mechanics and sub-atomic physics and find the spiritual parallels within the science. I wish more westerners could be exposed to this. My email is viewable in profile.
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I just read "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren for the first time since high school. I forgot how good that book is!\n\nOther good fiction: (1) "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen is just all-around great, (2) "David Copperfield" or "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens are light and entertaining, and (3) "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl is imaginative like the movie but darker. \n\nGood non-fiction: (1) "Confederates in the Attic" by Tony Horwitz is possibly the best books I've read in a long time, (2) "Baghdad Without a Map" by Tony Horwitz is a close second, and (3) "Family" by Ian Frazier is a well-written account of the author's ancestry.\n\nHappy reading!
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10 years since he died, Carl Sagan. (and I take it the rest are number of years since they died, too) Yes, I've loved reading his books. One of the best inspiring scientific writers I've ever read, on the universe. Looking to read more of his that I haven't, yet.
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I also want to know who has read that book