I agree with your ideas about comprehensible articles on physics I was a physics major in a major university for a couple years eventually broadened out to other things but I can still read Pauli and Reichenbach without feeling that I got caught in the spin cycle of a rug washer The same isn t true of the Wikipedia physics articles I ve tried to clear up the philosophy of QM article that is under rfd but Mr Ingham has not answered my questions about what he is trying to say in a responsive way The simplified article looks like a better place to start My experience in physics at the University level may be relevant We had a trimester system The first trimester was mechanics I did o k but calculus was new to me The second semester was electricity Since I had shocked myself working on old radios made crystal radios etc etc for years I already knew what was going on In some ways I was ahead of our grad student lab leader who couldn t understand why putting one probe of a volt meter into the DC outlet on the lab bench did not produce a reading My grade jumped to A not because I was any smarter but because I knew from experience what happens when resistors are wired in series and when they are wired in parallel and to other students such matters were totally abstract I think that students should begin with real world experiences as much as possible Unfortunately many students live in very restricted environments If you live in a high rise apartment building you might not realize you could just trail the antenna for a crystal radio out the window It would be nice if you would put something on your user page indicating background interests etc