Great book. Written by Charles F. Stevens, it covers classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, statistical physics, special relativity and quantum field theory. However, if you're not a math person, you'll probably want to leave this book alone. It concisely covers all of these theories in a grand total of 220 pages, which is quite a feat. Don't let it's brevity fool you, because it is definitely a dense book, especially if you haven't been previously introduced to special relativity and quantum mechanics/field theory. The words to equations ratio is about 1:1, which is generally not a good thing for leisure reading, but the conceptual explanations are very clear. It would be best used as review by a college physics student, or as a first step in understanding the more complicated theories that a high school student will (eventually) encounter while studying science and engineering in college.
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