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Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Do the complexities of thermodynamics cool your enthusiasm?
Thanks to this book, you don’t have to be Einstein to understand physics. As you read about Newton’s Laws, Kepler’s Laws, Hooke’s Law, Ohm’s Law, and others, you’ll appreciate the For Dummies law: The easier we make it, the faster people understand it and the more they enjoy it! Whether you’re taking a class, helping kids with homework, or trying to find out how the world works, this book helps you understand basic physics. It covers:
- Measurements, units, and significant figures
- Forces such as displacement, speed, and acceleration
- Vectors and physics notation
- Motion, energy, and waves (sound, light, wave-particle)
- Solids, liquids, and gases
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Steven Holzner, Ph.D
. earned his B.S. at MIT and his Ph.D. at Cornell, where he taught Physics 101 and 102 for over 10 years. He livens things up with cool physics facts, real-world examples, and simple experiments that will heighten your enthusiasm for physics and science. The book ends with some out-of-this world physics that will set your mind in motion:
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- The Big Bang
- How the gravitational pull of black holes is too strong for even light to escape
May the Force be with you!
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Great.......2007-08-10
I have already received a degree in physics, but am always looking at texts for further understanding and alternate perspectives. This book is good for either a beginner or someone looking strengthen their grasp of physics.
Pretty good.......2007-05-06
It's pretty good, although it could be better. It would have helped to be a little more concise, or to have more examples; really just MORE. It does help, though.
Facilmente comprensible.......2007-03-29
Los textos para "dummies" se traducen en España peyorativamente como "para torpes" y se deberían traducir como textos "facilmente comprensibles", ya que en absoluto son textos para torpes, sino textos muy asequibles.
Sin más, saludos
waste of money.......2007-03-26
if you are really a "dummy" when it comes to physics, then this book is nearly a waste of money. It has incomplete explanations and very few examples.
An objective review for those who are A students looking for a supplement to clarify concepts.......2007-03-14
Let me preface my review by stating that I've gotten an A+ in my first semester college physics (mechanics). The reason for purchasing this book was to decrease the time I normally spend to visualize/conceptualize what is REALLY going on with each topic. For an example, with circuits I try to imagine the current as water flowing in a hose with parellel resistors having lower resistence to this water flow in comparison to series resistors by having multiple channels for the water to flow whereas series resistors would simply add resistence hence increasing total resistence to this water flow. When I purchased this book, I was hoping it'd provide ways to visualize and conceptualize various topics with tangible analogies so that I could spend less time. I found this book did not achieve what I was looking for. If you potential buyers are looking for what I was looking for when I purchased this book, save your money. What this book did do is present the material which would have taken 5 pages to describe and describe it in 1 page. To me, in order to get A's in any of my classes, I need to KNOW and VISUALIZE what is really going on to the core idea of the topic. Condensing materials without elucidating the concepts in an understandable way in my opinion makes learning from this book inferior to learning from the text.
So, my point is that this book is a poor supplement book to the text. In addition, it's a poor stand alone book for those of you trying to learn physics without having to learn from a thick text book. Again, I'm coming from the perspective of someone trying to understand the concepts inside and out. I feel I do that on my own. I was simply hoping to cut down on the time with my text book by using this book as a supplement. It just didn't work out for me.
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Genius demystified, the Dummies way!
In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized modern physics with his theory of relativity. He went on to become a twentieth-century icon-a man whose name and face are synonymous with "genius." Now, at last, ordinary readers can explore Einstein's life and work in this new For Dummies guide. Physicist Carlos Calle chronicles Einstein's career and explains his work-including the theories of special and general relativity-in language that anyone can understand. He shows how Einstein's discoveries affected everything from the development of the atom bomb to the theory of quantum mechanics. He sheds light on Einstein's personal life and beliefs, including his views on religion and politics. And he shows how Einstein's work continues to affect our world today, from nuclear power to space travel to artificial intelligence.
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Covers a broad range of topics in physics.......2007-08-20
An excellent book which clearly describes not only Einstein's contributions to physics, but the contributions of many other physicists who went before him like Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Maxwell, and Lorentz and who were his contemporaries like Planck and Bohr. In highlighting Einstein's contributions, he covers a wide range of topics including dynamics, electromagnetism, atomic physics, and quantum mechanics. For a more detailed description of physical concepts covering a broader range, I highly recommended his book on superstrings, etc.
It's Delightful!.......2007-07-20
Helps to stretch this old brain of mine when I thought that I was all through with learning.
The book that convinced me that Einstein is understandable.......2007-04-10
This is the book to read if you want to understand relativity but don't know mathematics. As a biologist, I read 6 chapters in one night. Dr. Calle's analogy made use of my commonsense and everyday experience to the best. From the history and philosophy of physics described in the book, I figured out what theoretical physics is and how physicists do it. I still have questions not answered by the book, but I finished the book and want another one by the same author.
I wish all the science professors have Dr. Calle's communication skills and interest in teaching.
If you're curious about Einstein and his work, start here.......2006-04-07
I found Einstein for Dummies to be interesting and informative. It was an enjoyable read, and quickly got me up to speed on Albert Einstein and his extraordinary life's work. At $13, it is priced right, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about Einstein.
A beautiful discussion.......2006-03-03
It is the best of the many books that I have read that present Einstein's work in a simplified fashion. The personal data about Einstein is interesting also.
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The fact that you're even making an attempt at using Web development software dispels the notion that you are a dummy. Nonetheless, ColdFusion 4 for Dummies will get novices on the way to creating interactive Web pages.
Despite the book's let's-start-with-the-basics approach, some familiarity with directory trees and the basic concepts of programming will come in handy, since the author gets right into the nitty-gritty of working with tags, functions, and variables. It seems that a book targeted toward the beginner should explain these concepts a little more thoroughly before launching into how they work within the software. The book may be assuming a bit too much about its audience, which is unusual in the Dummies series.
Still, the author clearly knows the ins and outs of ColdFusion 4, guiding you through such processes as working with databases, updating records, and building forms in fairly simple terms. He also spends ample time going over troubleshooting--which constitutes a large part of Web site development--and common coding mistakes.
ColdFusion 4 for Dummies may not be much help if you're apprehensive about delving into the world of Web site development. But if you're brave enough to take the plunge, this book has lots of information. --John Frederick Moore
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It's a language. It's also a server. And yes, ColdFusion is a rapid application development environment, too. Find out how easy it is to rev up your Web pages with this friendly …For Dummies guide.
Discover how to
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Included on a bonus CD-ROM are the top custom ColdFusion tags, all ready to use, Web authoring tools, and evaluation editions of ColdFusion Enterprise Server 4.0.1, ColdFusion Studio for Windows 4.0.1, and HomeSite 4.0.1.
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Do Not Buy This Book Unless You Like Being Confused.......2002-02-22
This is the worst possible book you can buy if you want to learn ColdFusion. They introduce unexplained, confusing code, throwing in comments that seemed to have "suddenly occured" to them as they were writing something else. It's impossible to start at a low level and build up your knowledge. It is instant confusion. I'm a fan of Dummies Books - most are valuable. This one is awful. I hate it.
ColdFusion 4 for Dummies.......2001-07-01
This dummies book is one of the worst I've seen. Compared to other CF resources this is my least valuable one. Even if you are a beginner the examples are mediocre. Not to mention several valuable tags like CFHTTP and CFFTP are not even listed in the book. The organization of the book is also confusing as it is put into the "dummies" format. Instead of trying to write a "funny" resource they should have focused a little more on the contents.
Difficult resource.......2001-02-22
There is some valuable information presented in this book, but plan on spending at least half your time extracting it. It many compliment your other CF resources.
If this were the only CF resource available, I'm sure there would not be many developers thriving today. Even if you're a Dummy, look around for something else.
Con-Fusion.......2001-01-28
This book is terrible. More often than not it is telling you to do something without telling you why. The tutorials are inconsistant. The document names it refers to are constantly changing. Worst of all, it will tell you it is going to teach you how to perform a task with a nice graphic and then drop the subject and move on without another mention of the subject. I wish I had never purchased this book.
I'm a "Dummy" for Buying This Book!.......2001-01-06
There's an old saying: "You get what you pay for." Well, in this case the saying holds true: I purchased this book because it was the least expensive book on Coldfusion. Unfortunately, its also one of the worst.
This book gets 1 star for successfully writing the book with correct grammer and spelling. However, there is little else on the positive side worth mentioning.
In terms of it's low points, the book is a confusing mess that has little to do with sound instructional design. To begin, the instructions for configuring Coldfusion are so disorganized, it will likely take you hours, if not days, to actually get Coldfusion up and running. In fact, the configuration instructions are so poorly sequenced that you will need to jump back and forth between chapters in order to make any sense of the process.
Should you be fortunate enough to decipher the installation instructions, the actual examples are so poorly described and documented that they are vitually worthless. I managed to get through the examples, but only after hours of taking notes and experimentation through trial and error.
I strongly recommend that you try to find another book, either the Ben Forte or Sams books.
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Astrophysics is a subject that is often - with some justification - regarded as extremely difficult, requiring at least degree-level mathematics as a prerequisite to its understanding. Consequently, many amateur astronomers just don't bother, and miss out on the fascinating fundamentals of the subject, and often on an understanding of exactly what they are observing.
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Tarzan tracks Jane to the strange land of Pal-ul-don.......2004-06-15
The original novel "Tarzan of the Apes" is clearly the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs novel and the one you have to read if you read only one ERB pulp fiction adventure, but all things considered "Tarzan the Terrible" is a better example of what would be the typical Burroughs yarn. The eighth book in the Tarzan series, "Tarzan the Terrible" continues the adventure begun in "Tarzan the Untamed" when the Lord of the Jungle discovered the burnt corpse of his wife, Jane after German soldiers visit his African home. ERB never really did like Jane all that much (he though La of Opar would have been a better mate) and killed her off. However, he had no more success in keeping her dead than Arthur Conan Doyle did with killing off Sherlock Holmes, and Tarzan learns that Jane was not murdered by the Germans but kidnapped and sets off in pursuit. Originally published as a seven-part serial in "Argosy All-Story Weekly" in February-March, 1921, "Tarzan the Terrible" continues his private war against the German invaders.
Tarzan has spent two months tracking his mate to Pal-ul-don ("Land of Men"), a hidden valley in Zaire, when he finds a land of strange animals (dinosaurs) and a pair of strange humanoids with tails that he befriends. Ta-den, is a hairless, white skinned, Ho-don warrior, while O-mat is a hairy, black skinned, Waz-don, chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. Of course, in this new world Tarzan becomes a captive but impresses his captors so well that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru ("Tarzan the Terrible") because of his skills and accomplishments. Meanwhile, a second visitor comes to Pal-ul-don, wearing only a loin cloth and carrying an Enfield rifle along with a long knife, bow and arrows (think about it). However, it is indeed in Pal-ul-don where Jane is now being held captive, a pawn in a religious power struggle that consumes the rest of the novel as Tarzan tries to rescue her and set things to right in the strange kingdom he has discovered.
"Tarzan the Terrible" has all of the elements you expect from your standard Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. The hero pursues his beloved and has to go through an extended series of fights and escapes to rescue her. Jane does exhibit a bit more spunk this time around (she captures, cleans, and eats a rabbit), so there is an effort to make her more worthy of her jungle mate than before. The religious and social customs of Pal-ul-don are worked out a bit more than we have seen previously in the Tarzan series, which would become more dependent on Tarzan discover more "lost cities" in the interior of darkest Africa with the descendants of Roman legionnaires, crusaders, or whatever. "Tarzan the Terrible" is almost as good as "Tarzan the Untamed," and in many ways represents the end of the glory days of Tarzan. You are only one-third of the way through the series at this point, but after this one the stories get a bit redundant and repetitive as ERB milks his romantic adventure formula for all its worth.
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In Tarzan the Terrible, considered by fans to be one of the best of the Tarzan novels, the Lord of the Jungle sets out to rescue his beloved Jane, who has been kidnapped by the evil Lieutenant Obergatz. But his journey takes him through lands untamed and uncharted, inhabited by primitive tribes and strange creatures from the depths of time. The eighth book in the Tarzan series, Tarzan the Terrible continues the adventures begun in Tarzan the Untamed.
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TARZAN THE TERRIBLE continues the adventure begun in TARZAN THE UNTAMED -- in that volume, the Lord of the Jungle discovered the burnt corpse of his wife, Jane, after a visit to his African home by German soldiers. (One suspects that Burroughs never did like Jane; this sort of thing happened to her a lot.) In this volume, Tarzan learns that Jane was not murdered by the Germans but kidnaped -- and sets off in pursuit. As the novel begins, Tarzan has spent two months tracking his mate to Pal-ul-don ("Land of Men"), a hidden valley in Zaire, where he finds a land dinosaurs and men even stranger -- humanoids with tails. Ta-den is a hairless, white-skinned, Ho-don warrior; O-mat is a hairy, black skinned, Waz-don, chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world Tarzan becomes a captive -- but he impresses his captors so well that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru ("Tarzan the Terrible"). Meanwhile, a second visitor has come to Pal-ul-don -- wearing only a loin cloth and carrying an Enfield rifle along and a long knife. Pal-ul-don is where Jane is being held captive, of course. . . .
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And consequent to this thought there enveloped him a blind frenzy of hatred for these creatures who dared thwart his purpose and menace the welfare of his wife. With a savage growl he threw himself upon the warrior before him twisting the heavy club from the creature's hand as if he had been a little child, and with his left fist backed by the weight and sinew of his giant frame, he crashed a shattering blow to the center of the Waz-don's face--.
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excellent till the end.......2006-01-23
This book is clearly more experimental for Burroughs in that there are traps the Ape-man can't escape from. Also, the depth of the Ho-don and Waz-don civilizations in Pal-ul-don is well fleshed out and because of this is somewhat reminiscent of the way Burroughs constructed his Martian countries. Too, Korak's last appearance as a major character in a Tarzan novel is well placed if too short. The ultimate failing of the book lies in something Burroughs did all too frequently with his characters be they Tarzan, John Carter, or David Innes: Tarzan doesn't get to exact personal revenge on the men who kidnaped and tried to rape his wife. Had Burroughs not chickened out at the end and given the just reprisal to another character, this would have been the quintessential Tarzan novel. Still, though, it is worth the read.
Tarzan tracks Jane to the strange land of Pal-ul-don.......2003-09-10
The original novel "Tarzan of the Apes" is clearly the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs novel and the one you have to read if you read only one ERB pulp fiction adventure, but all things considered "Tarzan the Terrible" is a better example of what would be the typical Burroughs yarn. The eighth book in the Tarzan series, "Tarzan the Terrible" continues the adventure begun in "Tarzan the Untamed" when the Lord of the Jungle discovered the burnt corpse of his wife, Jane after German soldiers visit his African home. ERB never really did like Jane all that much (he though La of Opar would have been a better mate) and killed her off. However, he had no more success in keeping her dead than Arthur Conan Doyle did with killing off Sherlock Holmes, and Tarzan learns that Jane was not murdered by the Germans but kidnapped and sets off in pursuit. Originally published as a seven-part serial in "Argosy All-Story Weekly" in February-March, 1921, "Tarzan the Terrible" continues his private war against the German invaders.
Tarzan has spent two months tracking his mate to Pal-ul-don ("Land of Men"), a hidden valley in Zaire, when he finds a land of strange animals (dinosaurs) and a pair of strange humanoids with tails that he befriends. Ta-den, is a hairless, white skinned, Ho-don warrior, while O-mat is a hairy, black skinned, Waz-don, chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. Of course, in this new world Tarzan becomes a captive but impresses his captors so well that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru ("Tarzan the Terrible") because of his skills and accomplishments. Meanwhile, a second visitor comes to Pal-ul-don, wearing only a loin cloth and carrying an Enfield rifle along with a long knife, bow and arrows (think about it). However, it is indeed in Pal-ul-don where Jane is now being held captive, a pawn in a religious power struggle that consumes the rest of the novel as Tarzan tries to rescue her and set things to right in the strange kingdom he has discovered.
"Tarzan the Terrible" has all of the elements you expect from your standard Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. The hero pursues his beloved and has to go through an extended series of fights and escapes to rescue her. Jane does exhibit a bit more spunk this time around (she captures, cleans, and eats a rabbit), so there is an effort to make her more worthy of her jungle mate than before. The religious and social customs of Pal-ul-don are worked out a bit more than we have seen previously in the Tarzan series, which would become more dependent on Tarzan discover more "lost cities" in the interior of darkest Africa with the descendants of Roman legionnaires, crusaders, or whatever. "Tarzan the Terrible" is almost as good as "Tarzan the Untamed," and in many ways represents the end of the glory days of Tarzan. You are only one-third of the way through the series at this point, but after this one the stories get a bit redundant and repetitive as ERB milks his romantic adventure formula for all its worth.
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TARZAN THE UNTAMED
With the speed of the great apes, Tarzan rushed through the jungle toward his home and family. But he was already too late. The marauders had been there before him. His farm was in shambles and no one was left alive. Silently, he swore his terrible vengeance against those who had done this monstrous deed. Then he set out grimly to track them . . . through warring armies . . . across a vast desert that no man had ever crossed . . . and to a strange valley where only madmen lived.
TARZAN THE TERRIBLE
Lieutenant Obergatz had fled in terror from the seeking vengeance of Tarzan of the Apes. And with him, by force, he had taken Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane. Now the ape-man was following the faint spoor of their flight, into a region no man had ever penetrated. The trail led across seemingly impassable marshes into Pal-ul-don--a savage land where primitive Waz-don and Ho-don fought fiercely, wielding knives with their long, prehensile tails--and where mighty triceratops still survived from the dim dawn of time . . .
Customer Reviews:
The Dell Comics Tarzan: Tarzan the Untamed/Tarzan the Terrible.......2006-12-13
It is commonly agreed among ERB fans that Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terrible are two of the best books of the series. They make a pair that complete a whole story, but can be read separately as well. The only thing I wanted to add to the discussion is the fact that Tarzan the Terrible is the ONLY novel in which the lost land of Pal-ul-don appears. This land was greatly expanded and mined to completion in the 1950's Dell Tarzan comics. So, if you were a fan of that old Dell Tarzan, at least Tarzan the Terrible deserves a reading. As mentioned by others, these two stories are filled with action and adventure and, I believe, would find a readership among kids today if only the books were carried by more book stores.
Two of the best Tarzan novels.......1999-10-14
These are two of the best Tarzan novels, filled with everything that Burroughs does best: action, mystery, romance, lost cities... TARZAN THE TERRIBLE is the direct sequel to TARZAN THE UNTAMED, and anyone who has read these books will want to get a copy of Philip Jose Farmer's THE DARK HEART OF TIME: A TARZAN NOVEL, which takes place chronologically in between these two amazing books.
2 GREAT ADVENTURE STORIES.......1999-09-01
These are two of the best books ERB wrote in the series. Although "Tarzan of the Apes" is the undisputed best novel of the series, quite possibly a literary masterpiece, these two have even more adventure, action, and clever plot twists than the original. I think "Tarzan the Terrible" is an overall better read, but the final few chapters of "Tarzan the Untamed", in Xuja, city of the mad, is my favorite part of the entire series. I enjoyed it better than Opar, Ashair, or any of the other lost cities ERB created. I wish he had set the entire novel there. If you're an adventure or Tarzan fan you can't miss these two stories. They're the 7th and 8th books in the series and still have aspects of Tarzan being fresh in his creator's mind. The latter books are all good, but they remind me alot of another series, my favorite, the Gor series by John Norman. The first books are outstanding, but the series begin to get repetitive as though the authors used up all their good ideas and are recycling them with different but similiar settings and characters and the storylines follow much of the same course as the previous ones. The only negative thing I can say about the Tarzan series, if indeed you even consider this negative, is that coincidence seems to play much too big of a role. Everyone in the story will somehow end up in the same place at the same time no matter what they've been through and where they've been. But I guess that's what helps make them enjoyable. It all works out. If you like the Tarzan series I recommend two other books by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "The Outlaw of Torn", a medieval tale and "I Am a Barbarian", a tale of the mad Roman emperor Caligula. I also recommend the Gor series by John Norman(the ones with Tarl Cabot in them anyway) and anything by Robert E. Howard.
The best in the series!.......1999-08-02
These two novels in my opinion were the best in all of the 22 book series. Tarzan goes from fighting germans to fighting prehistoric people and animals in a lost land. How does it get any better than that? And the Jane thing is cool! A must read for ultimate action/adventure readers.
Good to see these back in print!.......1997-06-19
These two stories are, in my humble opinion, the
two best works of ERB in the Tarzan series. Very
nice plot twists (as opposed to the rather contrived ones later on) and a great deal of background into the settings (example: the Ho-don
and Waz-don dialect dictionary in Tarzan the Terrible)make these two "must own" books.
If you're looking for a great way to while away
some time or, even better, find a good book for
a young reader - I urge you to strongly buy this
book!
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Tarzan the Terrible
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Classic Books Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Action & Adventure
| Genre Fiction
| Literature & Fiction
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ASIN: 1600967043
Release Date: 2007-02-18 |
Book Description
In Tarzan the Terrible, considered by fans to be one of the best of the Tarzan novels, the Lord of the Jungle sets out to rescue his beloved Jane, who has been kidnapped by the evil Lieutenant Obergatz. But his journey takes him through lands untamed and uncharted, inhabited by primitive tribes and strange creatures from the depths of time. The eighth book in the Tarzan series, Tarzan the Terrible continues the adventures begun in Tarzan the Untamed.
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