The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Jan 29, 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780465028115
Description: A string theorist and a citizen scientist instruct lay readers on elementary principles of physics and associated math that amateur enthusiasts should know in order to study more advanced topics, in a reference that covers such topics as classical mechanics, electromagnetic fields and chaos theory.

"A first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur ... beginning with classical mechanics"--Dust jacket flap.