Any books on how physics formulas are derived?

[cshum00]

I am looking for Physics books which that focuses on how the Physics formulas are derived. I know that some formulas were derived by experiments and how each of the controlled variables relate to each other. That is fine for me too as long as it has the experimental data; although i prefer it to be shown in purely mathematical approach.

I wonder if there are such books out there. Most of the physics book i have just give an introduction to the topic and then gives me the formula. So, i want to learn how the formulas are derived to understand why they are of such form.

Thanks.

 

[nicksauce]

It depends on what sort of "formulas" you're talking about, but any good book, talking about subject X, will derive all of the formulas about X. I think you just need to be looking at better books. But it would help if you gave some examples of what you mean when you say "most of the physics books I have just give an introduction to the topic, and then gives me the formula".

 

[cshum00]

Anything about physics would do; from introductory to advanced. Of course, i would like to start off from basic stuff first.