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Physics, Volume 2: Chapters 18-32
This bestselling book helps readers understand the interrelationships among basic physics concepts and how they fit together to describe our physical world. Real-world physics applications are presented throughout the chapters, including many biomedical applications, to show how physics principles come into play over and over again in our lives. Highlighted Problem Solving Insights sections explain each calculation in detail, guiding readers through the quantitative process. The Concepts at a Glance charts provide a visual representation of the conceptual development of physics principles.
552 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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May 19, 2022
this book made me want to k*ll myself
July 27, 2009
Loved it. Best book on physics that I've ever been in contact with. Fantastic applications and perfect and easily comprehensible writing of typical more difficult to understand/written about concepts. Learned loads and totally wanted to learn more physics for the rest of my life afterwards. Much easier/more fun to do physics problems now that I know the concepts. Vanquished my potentially lifelong fear of physics, thus made me feel more complete and confident about myself and ability to learn harder, cool parts of science.
Officially wanted to major in molecular biology after this because this book and the inspired learning of science in me finally crystallized and gave me the right impetus to major in MOL for the right reasons. I knew that I was going to do but needed the right reasons. This gave it to me.
The other reasons for why I should major in MOL then just fit into place and became obvious for me:
-how taken I've been with
--chemistry, (interesting)
--orgo, (patient, loving dedication; problem-solving)
--biology, (pure interest and fascination)
--and physics (pure interest, fun, and love for the concepts and mathematical logic-ness of it all).
--computer science (interest and dedication to its applications and concepts in general)
--statistics (self-teaching, reading up on the ORF 245 book and in working on research project groups that involve stats, STATA, and SPSS)
--interest in upcoming, new technology more than anything really in the news
-my loving dedication to working out problems, understanding concepts, logic, application, and just getting to the points of being stuck and getting through it.
MOL courses involve all these things anyway. Now I know the reasons for why I should become a MOL major.
Reasons for why I won't join other majors:
pre-med:
-the boredom and tedium, and bureaucracy involved with the medical world
-how many (30%, rough, early percent) professor doctors of medical schools want to quit their jobs (how hard, invisible, non-rewarding the job really kind of is. Just sorta satisfies personal egos and dreams of selflessness)
social science:
-how boring, blithering, non-innovative, non-edginess of being in a medical work/social research environment
...maybe social work may not be the work for me. I can care about people and be supportive, good individual who could potentially lead and guide others and work with others but...boring lifelong work. Once you get the number, it sorta gets tired so business, non-profit, any other organizational work isn't really for me. Maybe a hobby some day. Helpful to improve my argument, public speaking and personal speaking skills in the future.
humanities:
--can keep reading for the rest of my life, will be just fine then...deep as I want to be when that time/this time comes
--same goes for writing, maybe get a mini-degree/course in journalism/non-fiction writing and fictional/creative writing
To deal with reasons for why I initially didn't want to major in MOL:
-hollowness,
-lower quality of life,
-potential risk of ignorance of important pockets of knowledge
I anticipate that The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance will help me rethink and eliminate the validity of these reasons in my mind once I reframe and rethink them inside another person's mind/trains of thought.
Officially wanted to major in molecular biology after this because this book and the inspired learning of science in me finally crystallized and gave me the right impetus to major in MOL for the right reasons. I knew that I was going to do but needed the right reasons. This gave it to me.
The other reasons for why I should major in MOL then just fit into place and became obvious for me:
-how taken I've been with
--chemistry, (interesting)
--orgo, (patient, loving dedication; problem-solving)
--biology, (pure interest and fascination)
--and physics (pure interest, fun, and love for the concepts and mathematical logic-ness of it all).
--computer science (interest and dedication to its applications and concepts in general)
--statistics (self-teaching, reading up on the ORF 245 book and in working on research project groups that involve stats, STATA, and SPSS)
--interest in upcoming, new technology more than anything really in the news
-my loving dedication to working out problems, understanding concepts, logic, application, and just getting to the points of being stuck and getting through it.
MOL courses involve all these things anyway. Now I know the reasons for why I should become a MOL major.
Reasons for why I won't join other majors:
pre-med:
-the boredom and tedium, and bureaucracy involved with the medical world
-how many (30%, rough, early percent) professor doctors of medical schools want to quit their jobs (how hard, invisible, non-rewarding the job really kind of is. Just sorta satisfies personal egos and dreams of selflessness)
social science:
-how boring, blithering, non-innovative, non-edginess of being in a medical work/social research environment
...maybe social work may not be the work for me. I can care about people and be supportive, good individual who could potentially lead and guide others and work with others but...boring lifelong work. Once you get the number, it sorta gets tired so business, non-profit, any other organizational work isn't really for me. Maybe a hobby some day. Helpful to improve my argument, public speaking and personal speaking skills in the future.
humanities:
--can keep reading for the rest of my life, will be just fine then...deep as I want to be when that time/this time comes
--same goes for writing, maybe get a mini-degree/course in journalism/non-fiction writing and fictional/creative writing
To deal with reasons for why I initially didn't want to major in MOL:
-hollowness,
-lower quality of life,
-potential risk of ignorance of important pockets of knowledge
I anticipate that The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance will help me rethink and eliminate the validity of these reasons in my mind once I reframe and rethink them inside another person's mind/trains of thought.
April 3, 2008
I love this book. trust me, if you've read other physics books, and you don't like physics, this is the one to read. use the interactive website from wiley.com
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July 10, 2016
Some sections were well written, others were super confusing. There are better textbooks out there.
January 23, 2017
Not the best written text, but it got the job done...
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