Painless Physics

by Michael Milford

A high school Physics primer I wrote covering the basics of school Physics. Has sold a little over a 1000 copies around the world.

144 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

I live in Brisbane, Australia with my wife and young son and daughter. By day I’m a tenured academic at a Brisbane university where I carry out robotics and computational neuroscience research, teach engineering students and lead a research group comprising research staff, PhD students and undergraduates. I am currently an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Australian Centre for Robotic Vision. I collaborate with leading international researchers from universities around the world including Harvard and Boston Universities, where I recently spent my sabbatical.

I wrote my first educational textbook in 2000, when I was 18 years old and in university. I paid to print 40 copies out of my own pocket and my local bookstore was kind enough to put them on their shelves. It was Christmas time and my parents thought I was crazy.

The 40 copies sold out and I had to get 100 more printed. The 100 sold out, then 200, 300, 500, 1000…

My books in reverse order – A Question of Will (2014), Complete School (2006), Painless Physics (2002) and my first book Not a C Minus (2000).