Studying Good Books to Understand the Concepts of Physics

[Ceenaya19]

I am really enjoying learning physics, and I am getting a thorough mathematical treatment of everything, but sometimes I find myself lacking an understanding of what many of the formulas and numerical results mean physically. My goal is to have a deep MATHEMATICAL understanding of how things work as well as a deep CONCEPTUAL understanding. Popular science books are somewhat helpful with this, but they are not as detailed as I would like them to be. So, I was just wondering if anyone knows of any books that give a detailed conceptual treatment of physics that I could use alongside my textbooks for my classes. Or, even better, can someone describe some of the strategies that they used to better understand the physics behind the math. Thanks a lot for any responses.

 

[mathwonk]

someone more qualified than I needs to answer this excellent question, but one lovely little book that is all about elementary concepts of physics in action for the layperson, is "thinking physics" by david epstein. actually maybe feynman's lectures fill the bill to some extent at a higher level. i think of them as more conceptual than quantitative.