Classical Where Can I Find German and English Physics Textbooks for Secondary School?

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The discussion centers on the search for secondary school physics textbooks suitable for ages 11-14 from Germany and England. The initial inquiry is met with questions about the specifics of the request, particularly whether the user seeks purchasing options or free books. A suggestion is made to search for "Physics textbuch" on Amazon.de for German textbooks. Concerns are raised about the quality of recent schoolbooks, with a specific mention of the decline in standards in newer editions of a well-known German textbook, Metzler, which has seen a drop in logical coherence and educational value over the years. The conversation also hints at the potential for finding useful references through Wikipedia articles related to the subject.
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I am looking for secondary school (ages 11-14) Physics textbooks from Germany and England. Can you help me?
 
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Kleio said:
I am looking for secondary school (ages 11-14) Physics textbooks from Germany and England. Can you help me?
That's an ambiguous question. Help you with what? Do you want people to help you find out where to buy them? That should be easy on the Internet. Or, are you hoping that people will just GIVE them to you ? If you want people to give them to you, where ARE you? Who pays the postage?

Do you see how your question is very incomplete?
 
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That's an ambiguous question. Help you with what? Do you want people to help you find out where to buy them? That should be easy on the Internet. Or, are you hoping that people will just GIVE them to you ? If you want people to give them to you, where ARE you? Who pays the postage?

Do you see how your question is very incomplete?
I want to buy some books that are used in schools in germany and uk. Maybe you could suggest some you believe that are good.
 
If you know enough German, a search for Physics textbuch in Amazon.de should get you some hits with some page samples.
 
Schoolbooks are usually not very good these days. I was shocked looking at some German physics high-school books for the "Oberstufe", i.e., grades 11-13. You have to look at older editions to get a good book. The book, I learned for my Abitur exam was

Metzler, Physik (1989)

The same book in the edition of 2008 is still ok but way lower in level and in my opinion has lost a lot of the logic still present in the old edition. The edition of 2014 (for Nordrhein Westphalia) makes me very sad, to say it friendly.

I don't know, how books for the lower grades are these days.
 
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