Physics book with explanations instead of definitions?

[Cole]

Hello everyone, I am taking my third term of physics right now, and we are talking about flux at the moment. This terms is supposed to be a lot about E&M.

Though I find that our textbook (Physics for scientists and engineers a strategic approach 4/e) is very textbooky. I was wondering if there is such thing as a physics book that is written less formally and would be written more like a friend was explaining the concepts to me instead of a dictionary. But it would of course also have to do into the depth I need in order to do well in a college class.

Does such a thing exist? The closes thing I have found is khan academy, but they don't have videos on everything we are talking about.

Let me know if you have any suggestions!

 

[jtbell]

Tip: most people refer to physics and math textbooks by the name(s) of their author(s) because the titles are so similar. You're using Knight's book, right? (a fairly well known calculus-based first-year university intro physics book)

You might look at the Feynman lectures, which are (legally) available online:

http://www.feynmanlectures.info/

Click on "Read" in the menu at the left side of the page.

 

[Cole]

Tip: most people refer to physics and math textbooks by the name(s) of their author(s) because the titles are so similar. You're using Knight's book, right? (a fairly well known calculus-based first-year university intro physics book)

You might look at the Feynman lectures, which are (legally) available online:

http://www.feynmanlectures.info/

Click on "Read" in the menu at the left side of the page.

Wow thank you this looks really helpful!

 

[Cole]

Tip: most people refer to physics and math textbooks by the name(s) of their author(s) because the titles are so similar. You're using Knight's book, right? (a fairly well known calculus-based first-year university intro physics book)

You might look at the Feynman lectures, which are (legally) available online:

http://www.feynmanlectures.info/

Click on "Read" in the menu at the left side of the page.

And yes you're right this is Knight's book.