Physics Essentials For Dummies

This Physics For Dummies book was exactly what my niece wanted to help her get a jump on learning physics. Its well written and has easy to follow terms and with great examples. Great learning guide!

Easy to understand

Difficult to comprehend if you haven't had the mathematics.

My son has already found great use of this well written physics book. He is in an AP physics class in 10th grade this year and is able to use this book to further explain the depth of the math associated with his homework.With the disaster known as common core implimendted into the schools there seems to be a shortage in literature to study from. I like this book because it cuts right to the chase and offers examples and a workflow that he can formulate into his own work.If you need to supplement more litterateur into your child's studies I recommend the essential series books for "dummies". It's an incredibly useful tool and works like a subject specific encyclopedia where they can reference the table of contents and match it up to their exact needs in the subject.I did not receive any sort of discount or free item for my honest review. I'm just a consumer looking out for the interest of my children's continued growth and knowledge base.

I couldn’t have completed my physics class without the help of this book. So well written. Easy to understand. I highly recommend it.

I teach Physics and our school does not have a physics text book since we do most of the course work on line. I needed a simple way to fill in the gaps for what we were getting on line and what we were doing in the classroom. The Physics for Dummies series was a great resource. The exercises were practical and easy for the students to understand. I really like the relationship between the books and the workbook. This has been really useful for my students.

I bought this book becasue my son was learning some physics in the 8th grade. He was solving problems involving bodies in motion. I have two engineering degrees from the mid 1980's, but it has been 25 years. He had questions and I was tired of going to Wikipedia. This book is a good, very basic intro many topics of high school & college physics. Pretty Decent on the qualitative explanations of concepts, some rather simple math is introduced, nothing much past basic trig or geometry.If you are looking for calculus based physics, or in depth analysis, this is not for you. I wish is had more worked out examples, but maybe that is just the engineer in me. As in intro for those who have a passing interest or those who want to be able to hold a conversation with high schoolers, it is just fine. If you are more into the classic academic approach (lecture from a textbook, solve problems..., finding solutions to physics problems) this book will frustrate you. There is not enough depth for that approach. For me,and for purposes of helping my son underdtand some physics basics and how to "set up" to solve some prety basic problems about bodies in motion, it was just fine.A nice read if you have an interest in the topic. it's fine for that. A

Was an awesome refresher

Great book for beginners

It’s great in all the sense of the word.

Physics means world and this book means universal physics

This book will give you a good review. It contains all important things. If you want to refresh your physic skills it is perfect

Dedicate a couple of days to this and you'll have a better understanding of more principles than a years worth of stuffy lectures gets you.Very simple to follow. I recommend doing the scenarios as the author describes them. Often you'll be able to jump to the right answer before its explained... A good sign that the books explaining a principle clearly IMO!