Newtonian Physics
Benjamin Crowell, "Newtonian Physics"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 097046701X | PDF | pages: 282 | 14,5 mb
English | 2007 | ISBN: 097046701X | PDF | pages: 282 | 14,5 mb
The publishers try to please everybody by including every imag-inable topic in the book, but end up pleasing nobody. There is wide agreement among physics teachers that the traditional one-year in-troductory textbooks cannot in fact be taught in one year. One cannot surgically remove enough material and still gracefully nav-igate the rest of one of these kitchen-sink textbooks. What is far worse is that the books are so crammed with topics that nearly all the explanation is cut out in order to keep the page count below 1100. Vital concepts like energy are introduced abruptly with an equation, like a first-date kiss that comes before “hello.”
The movement to reform physics texts is steaming ahead, but despite excellent books such as Hewitt’s Conceptual Physics for non-science majors and Knight’s Physics: A Contemporary Perspective for students who know calculus, there has been a gap in physics books for life-science majors who haven’t learned calculus or are learning it concurrently with physics. This book is meant to fill that gap.
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