Dot Physics: The Book

Yes, I finally finished this sucker. What is it? It is an ebook.

Just Enough Physics (Amazon)

Basically, this is some of my older posts (much older) where try to explain different physics concepts. The book only covers the material you would typically find in a first semester algebra-based physics course. Ok, here are the answers to the questions you might ask:

Why did you write this?

Why not? Really, I didn?t write this book. Instead, I wrote some blog posts and turned into a book. The original idea was that I could write a series of posts that would explain the basic concepts I keep coming back to. After getting a whole bunch of these completed, I realized that it was essentially a textbook. So, boom. There you go.

Why is it a book then? Isn?t this stuff in your blog?

Yes. It is all online. You could find this stuff if you wanted to read it online. Here is a list of the posts that I used. However, it might be more useful to have it as an ebook. This is slightly different ? some of the errors in the posts were fixed.

So, is it a textbook or not?

Yes. It is a textbook and it is not a textbook. If you want it to be a textbook, then it is. Oh, but there are some difference between my book and a traditional textbook.

• It doesn?t have any homework questions.
• The homework questions that it doesn?t have aren?t broken into sections (these are 1-d kinematics with zero acceleration problems ? see page 38 for an example).
• There are no side bars. Why do textbooks always like to put so much stuff in the side bars?

If it isn?t a textbook, it could be a supplement to a textbook. Or maybe it could be a refresher physics book. Whatever you want it to be.

What level is this aimed at?

When I wrote the stuff, I was thinking about the introductory algebra-based physics course. However, this seems to be very similar to many high school physics courses (at least in terms of content). If I had to pick a level, it would be in between those two. Could others find it useful? I hope so.

How do you make an ebook anyway?

Step one: search online for a nice howto. Step two: do it. I am not an expert, but if there was a lot of demand ? I could write up some details on this.

Will there be another ebook?

Always in motion is the future. I would like to write some more ebooks ? but why don?t we just see how well this one goes?

Acknowledgments:

You can?t write an ebook by yourself. Well, you can but there will be errors. So, I would like to thank the following helpers (in no particular order):

• Blog Readers: You. Yes, you helped with your comments and feedback. Keep up the good work.
• Khandan Simmons.
• My wife, Ashley (for being a perfectionist).
• Monica Sommerfeld.
• Sarah Robertson.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/dot-physics-the-book/

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