What should I study or read to learn physics in a very fundamental way?

[Danny Han]

Hello I'm a 15year old boy living in Korea, and lived in the U.S. for a couple of years. I want to learn physics in a very fundamental(?) way, for example, knowing the reason why from Newton's law of gravitation F = GmM/r^2, F is proportion to the SQUARE of r (not cube or power of 4??)

Currently I studied single variable calculus, and by the next year, I'll have finished vectors and Serway or Haliday( I forgot the spelling) (it's in our school curriculum)

I saw my friends reading books by hawking and so on, but they seemed to lack a detailed explanation and math(although I'm not good at math).

To sum it up, I want a book that talks about the fundamentals of physics using my level of math.( oh and our school will learn Serway next year, so please don't suggest me such books)

 

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