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Understand the rules that make the universe run.
Understanding the laws of physics is essential for all scientific studies, but many students are intimidated by their complexities. This completely revised and updated book makes it easy to understand the most important principles. From the physics of the everyday world to the theory of relativity, PHYSICS MADE SIMPLE covers it all.
Each chapter is introduced by anecdotes that directly apply the concepts to contemporary life and ends with practice problems—with complete solutions—to reinforce the concepts. Humorous illustrations and stories complete the text, making it not only easy but fun to learn this important science.
Topics covered include:
*force
*motion
*energy
*waves
*electricity and magnetism
*the atom
*quantum physics
*relativity
*spectroscopy
*particle physics
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Customer Reviews:
physics really made simple.......2007-07-29
i love this book it is by far the best book i found.that makes this very interesting subject easy to understand.i never took a school course in physics .yet i was able to complete the book in about a week and completely understand all the concepts.the book made physics really easy and fun.now that i finished this book i will better understand other books on physics.i hope many other people get to enjoy this book.
Simple for whom? Not for beginners at all........2007-02-16
I bought this book because I'm enrolled in Intro Physics as a prerequisite for a graduate program. I'll admit, I've been out of school for several years, but this book is definitely NOT easy. It (as many, many so-called "easy" books do) assumes that the reader already knows the basics of physics, algebra, and geometry/trigonometry. I know practically nothing about any of the previous subjects, so I needed a REAL basic presentation of physics....this book was not it.
Easy Fun Concept Review.......2006-08-23
I love this little book. It is by far the best physics review book I've used (it can also be used as a first exposure to physics). The language is simple and concepts are explained in a down-to-earth way. You can really move through this book fast! It focuses in on the major topics taught in an introductory sequence of high school and/or college physics (it isn't bloated with irrelevant info that bogs you down). Each section has review problems to give you some practice.
The book doesn't require calculus, but even if you took 3 semesters of calculus based physics like I did, you will still be able to gain knowledge and insight from this great book quickly and effortlessly. This book is great for anyone from curious middle school students to the general public and even to junior and senior undergraduate physics majors! The book focuses on concepts rather than equations which is good because what's the point in "plug and chug" if you don't really understand what you're doing?! If the details of the math in your rigorous textbook are getting you down, just take a break with this great little book.
When I decided go back to school for a second major in physics, I knew I'd need to review the introductory stuff before taking statics and modern physics since it had been over 5 years since I took my introductory physics sequence. I picked this book up (and several others that were junk) at my local library over the summer.
This book helped me the most by far! In fact, I liked this book so much that I am going to buy it (I'm not one to buy books as they are free from the library), but I'm going to buy this one -- that's how much I like this book!
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This new version of a classic updates much of the material in earlier editions, including the first chapter, on the history of the field. Important modifications reflect major discoveries of the past decades. A historical perspective is maintained throughout. The reader is drawn into the process of discovery: starting with a phenomenon, finding plausible explanations and competing theories and finally, the solution. The theory of magnetism is practically a metaphor for theoretical physics. The very first quantum many-body theory (Bethes ansatz) was devised for magnetic chains, just as mean-field theory was invented a century ago by Weiss to explain Curies Law. The first two chapters of this book are immensely readable, taking us from prehistory to the spin valves" of the most recent past. Topics in subsequent chapters include: angular momenta and spin (Chapter 3), quantum theory of simple systems, followed by increasingly technical insights into ordered and random systems, thermal fluctuations, phase transitions, chaos and the like. Contemporary developments in nanotechnology now seek to take advantage of the electrons spin as well as of its charge. The time is not far off when nano-circuits made entirely of silicon exhibit such many-body properties as superconductivity or ferromagnetism without any superconducting materials or magnetic ions being present. The reader of this book will be prepared for such exotic twenty-first century applications. Daniel C Mattis, BS, MS, PhD, Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), is a frequent lecturer at research institutions and the author of several textbooks and numerous research articles. His expertise includes many-body theory, electrical conductivity, quantum theory of magnetism and most recently, nanotechnology. Prof. Mattis is on the editorial panel for high-temperature superconductivity of the International Journal of Modern Physics B and Modern Physics Letters B, both published by World Scientific. Currently serving as Professor in the Physics department at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, at various times he has been visiting Professor at Yale University (New Haven), State University of New York (Buffalo), Temple University (Philadelphia), and served as Wei-Lun Visiting Professor" at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A founding member of the Few-Body Physics" section of the APS, he has also served as Chair of the standing committee of the! APS for the International Freedom of Scientists."
Customer Reviews:
Good review.......2007-01-23
This book is a good review on this subject. In starting the book with a brief history of the magnetism, the author shows in a very soft way how important the Quantum Mechanics is to this subject. There are very good examples for each section and what there is most recent in this issue. Unfortunately, some important topics are treated in a very superficial way. As an example is the renormalization group which has an enormous application in magnetism. Despite that, this book would be a good choice to a course on introduction to magnetism.
Not What Is Expected.......2007-01-01
The "made simple" part of the title is completely misleading. Its is not at all simple. Not at all at an introductry level.
The chapter on angular momentum has many "trivial" mistakes. For example, he writes J|Y) = (h-bar)m|Y) and calls "m the eigenvalue". But it is the "(h-bar)m" that is the eignevalue and not just "m".
A little later he writes that he will from this point on use units in which h-bar = 1. O.K. But then he continue to write in h-bar all over the place.
This book could use a good technical editor.
And, again, it is not a "made simple" book unless you already know the material.
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For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's marketplace, the Made Simple series for the '90s presents a thoroughly up-to-the-minute portfolio of skills, information, and experience, with revised and updated editions of bestselling titles, plus a whole range of new subjects from personal finance to office management to desktop publishing.
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Review Of: Arithmetic Made Simple by Robert Beige.......2007-01-09
An excellent publication for those who want a basic refresher in Arithmetic. Highly recommended for anyone who want to strengthen their basic math skills before engaging in any highler level mathematics courses.
excellent service and product.......2005-09-18
very useful product and fine service -- highly recommended for home schooling parents and those looking to supplement standard curricula
Great math homework reference book for parents........1998-11-11
Arithmetic Made Simple has really helped our family. It contains easy-to-understand mathematics concepts from 4th grade level up to 9th grade. Each math topic is organized in a way to allow step-by-step learning. The sections on use of percentages has been extremely helpful - even to our 9th grader. This book would be extremely useful for an adult that is persuing their GED. After the explaination of each topic there are sample problems and practice problems. Even the answers in the back have explainations of how many of the problems were worked. I highly recommend this book for every parent that has school-aged kids.
Customer Reviews:
Bit too simple.......2001-07-15
A bit too simplistic for the HS physics student. This book, instead, seems more aimed towards pre-HS students seeking a healthy head-start on physics concepts w/o being innundated w/ physics problem sets or mathematical equations and confusion. A small glimpse of the concept w/ emphasis on practical applications clearly present physics in a earnest manner to readers. Serves home-schooled students extremely well.
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This book is an elaboration of the author's lecture notes in a graduate course in statistical physics and thermodynamics, augmented by some material suitable for self-teaching as well as for undergraduate study. The first 4 or 5 chapters are suitable for an undergraduate course for engineers and physicists in Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics and include detailed study of the various ensembles and their connections to applied thermodynamics. The Debye law of specific heats and reasons for deviations from the Debye formulas are covered, as are the Einstein theories of Brownian motion, black-body radiation and specific heat of solids. Van der Waals gases and the reason for the apparent failure of his Law of Corresponding States are discussed.
The last 5 chapters treat topics of recent interest to researchers, including: the Ising and Potts models, spin waves in ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic media, sound propagation in non-ideal gases and the decay of sound waves, introduction to the understanding of glasses and spin glasses, superfluidity and superconductivity.
The selection of material is wide-ranging and the mathematics for handling it completely self-contained, ranging from counting (probability theory) to quantum field theory as used in the study of fermions, bosons and as an adjunct in the solutions of the equations of classical diffusion-reaction theory. In addition to the standard material found in most recent books on statistical physics the constellation of topics covered in this text includes numerous original items:
· Generalization of "negative temperature" to interacting spins
· Derivation of Gibbs' factor from first principles
· Exact free energy of interacting particles in 1D (e.g., classical and quantum Tonk's gas)
· Introduction to virial expansions, Equations of State, Correlation Functions and "critical exponents"
· Superfluidity in ideal and non-ideal fluids (both Bogolubov and Feynman theories)
· Superconductivity: thermodynamical approach and the BCS theory
· Derivation of "Central Limit Theorem" and its applications
· Boltzmann's "H-Theorem" and the nonlinear Boltzmann equation
· Exact solution of nonlinear Boltzmann Equation for electrons in time-dependent electric field and the derivation of Joule heating, transport parameters in crossed electric and magnetic fields, etc.
· Frequency spectrum and decay of sound waves in gases
· Exact evaluation of free energy and thermodynamic properties of the two-dimensional Ising model in regular and fully frustrated (spin-glass like) lattices
· The "zipper" model of crystal fracture or polymer coagulation - calculation of Tc
· Potts model in 2D: duality and Tc
· "Doi's theory" of diffusion-limited chemical reactions with some exact results — including the evaluation of statistical fluctuations in radioactive decay
· Thermodynamic Green Functions and their applications to fermions and bosons with an example drawn from random matrix theory
and much more.
Customer Reviews:
Just to clarify.......2006-06-22
I consider this book a very readable book, not from a genius, but a good book.
The problem with the people who rated it very bad is: They don't know what "statistical mechanics" means. To begin with statistical mechanis surely you have to know thermodynamics and physics. It's usual to study thermodynamics and "Statistical physics" as undergraduates and "Statistical mechanics" as graduates. Its just a nomenclature. But it helps to choose the books.
I rated it five starts just to bring the mean a good number of stars... This book has a heavy dispersion :)
Not for beginners.......2004-03-26
I'm sorry to say it, but the title of this book is misleading. The only way this book would be simple for you is if you have had a moderate class in probability and have had plenty of previous study in thermodynamics and physics. This book is definitely not for beginners.
Not simple at all!.......2004-02-18
I bought this book after I saw an advertisement in Physics today. While I cannot judge whether it is a good book for people who are already deep into the subject, it is definitely not a book for beginners or intermediates. For the latter I would recommend Chandler or Hill.
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Phillip Lopate's reputation in American letters resides primarily in his championing of the personal essay, both as an editor (The Art of the Personal Essay, The Anchor Essay Annual) and as a writer (Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body). So it might seem odd, at first, to imagine him as a film critic--but as his thoughtful considerations of Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris demonstrate, the movies are as likely a subject for a skilled essayist's reflection as any other. Like his favorite critics, "I have sought out," Lopate writes, "precisely those films that would take me to a place where the uncanny, the sublime, the tragic, the ecstatic, the beautifully resigned, all converge."
These are not, then, so much reviews--although Lopate happily discusses the strengths and weaknesses of his chosen films--as they are meditations. In his best pieces, such as his essays on Godard's Contempt (the film from which this collection derives its title) and Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, Lopate performs extended readings that tease out the richness of the films' texts with delicate intricacy. But this artful approach can only be carried so far--not even Lopate can quite redeem Jerry Lewis's Three on a Couch, which the most ardent Lewis fans acknowledge as a lesser work, no matter how earnestly he probes it for Freudian subtext. Folks who simply want to enjoy the movies may find the high culture assumptions of Totally, Tenderly, Tragically, including Lopate's overwhelming emphasis on foreign directors, a bit much, but if even one reader is inspired to seek out a film by Luchino Visconti, Kenji Mizoguchi, or Yazujiro Ozu on the basis of the descriptions herein, Lopate's efforts at conveying the artistic value of film will have been a success. --Ron Hogan
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Phillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia, he organized the school's first film society. Later, he even tried his own hand at filmmaking. But it was not until his ascent as a major essayist that Lopate found his truest and most lasting contribution to the medium. And, over the past twenty-five years, tackling subjects ranging from Visconti to Jerry Lewis, from the first New York Film Festival to the thirty-second, Phillip Lopate has made film his most cherished subject. Here, in one place, are the very best of these essays, a joy for anyone who loves movies.
Customer Reviews:
The shocking genius of this book is in the linguistic perfec.......1999-03-17
Lopate's new book is a showcase for his brilliance, his ability to graze not only far but wide. But I can't help thinking that here, more than in any other of his books (all of which I have read) the brilliance is not as much in the insight but in the perfect choice of every word, the absolutely right adjective and adverb, which create a passionate sensual delight.While Lopate has a remarkable linguistic intelligence his work becomes even more impressive when he writes about movies than when he writes about anything else.I could have done without the Lewis commentary which wasn't necessary and seemed half-hearted, and I could have done without the suicide attempt because it seemed it could have led him to another book, one which I would very much want to read, but the recounting of his days in college were fabulous.
Stardust Memories
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This book caught my eye with its luminous cover picture and title, invited my scorn ( and derisive laughter ) with chapter headings like "A Taste For Naruse" and "The World According to Makavejev." Not that I consider those directors necessarily rarefied or beneath consideration, mind you, but it's hard to ignore the exclusionary tactics at work here. Even Lopate admits, in the Naruse essay, that the Japanese director's films have only been screened for a few festival vampires... in New York circa 1984. How many people are there, outside of Lopate's wine-tasting compadres, who could possibly relate to this?
Needless to say, I broke down and bought Totally, Tenderly, Tragically anyway. Any author who has the good taste to put Anna Karina on the cover of his book, so the reasoning went, deserves my money. As it turns out, that's not Anna Karina on the cover -- it's an Italian mamacita from an untraceable Antonioni film -- but that was to be the rudest shock I suffered. Otherwise, these essays were always enlightening, often surprising, and occasionally even revelatory.
The two best pieces in the book are "Anticipation of 'La Notte'" and "Fassbinder's 'Despair'." I turned the pages expecting parched, scholarly analysis, and instead was treated to very entertaining, often embarrassingly personal anecdotes. If you've ever craved dirt on Phillip Lopate, this book is manna from heaven.
In the first, a memoir of sorts in which "La Notte" serves basically the same function as the Groucho Marx movies in "Hannah and Her Sisters" -- a celluloid reminder that life is worth living -- Lopate spills the beans about not only his youthful virginity, but his resultant suicide attempt. Lest this sound too depressing, I hasten to add that Lopate is much older now, feels no pity for himself or his younger incarnations, and keeps things entirely unoppressive. But it's startling to see how time doesn't change human nature, and that virginity, pallor, and monkish solitude are the necessary components of film buffery, in 1999 no less than in 1961.
"Fassbinder's 'Despair'" has even less to do with the film in its title, instead choosing to recount a date Lopate had in the late 70's with a haughty German girl ( is there any other kind? ) Lopate's hopeless attempts to seduce the ice princess, who just wants to nurse her toothache, are thrown into sharp relief by the hovering figure of Fassbinder himself, a "greasy wild boar" who lived life to the fullest. He represents cinema; Lopate, mundane reality.
Movies are where we go to see high drama unfold in a safe, contained setting. But they're also an everpresent backdrop against which our own tiny lives play out, dwarfed by the looming figures on the screen. I can pay Lopate no higher compliment than to say he is equally skilled at evoking the transcendence of great cinema, and the quiet desperation of day-to-day life.
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Title: Totally Tenderly Tragically.(Review) (book review)
Author: James Monaco
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Cineaste (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Page: 65
Article Type: Book Review
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