"Beautifully clear explanations of famously 'difficult' things," -- Wall Street Journal
If you ever regretted not taking physics in college -- or simply want to know how to think like a physicist -- this is the book for you. In this bestselling introduction to classical mechanics, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky offer a first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur. Challenging, lucid, and concise, The Theoretical Minimum provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780465075683
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 04-22-2014
Pages: 256
Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 13 - 18 Years
Series: The Theoretical Minimum
About the Author
Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics at Stanford University. He is the author of the forthcoming General Relativity: The Theoretical Minimum (with André Cabannes); Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory (with Art Friedman); and The Theoretical Minimum (with George Hrabovsky), among other books. He lives in Palo Alto, California. George Hrabovsky is the president of Madison Area Science and Technology (MAST), a nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific and technological research and education. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.