HollyDay Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Dd is just about done with AP Physics and would like to read more about modern physics. Suggestions for books on relativity, time, space, black holes, red shift, etc??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 https://www.amazon.com/Black-Holes-Time-Warps-Commonwealth/dp/0393312763 Ds combined this book with TC lectures on black holes and dark matter. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy in Richmond Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 I've done this MOOC with a good physics background & learned a lot: Cornell edX Relativity & Astrophysics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joules Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 A few ds and I read and enjoyed last year: Warped Passages by Lisa Randall The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel (I think the new edition is titled How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, though the content was always quantum.) How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel (The second one that I think made him retitle the first) And one of my older favorites: Relativity Visualized by Lewis Carroll Epstein (the author of the most awesome Thinking Physics book) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in SA Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 https://www.amazon.com/Black-Holes-Time-Warps-Commonwealth/dp/0393312763 Ds combined this book with TC lectures on black holes and dark matter. That's a good one, and doesn't require significant advanced math. MIT-OCW uses it for one of their courses, so there may be some videos available on their site. DS has also used "A Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relarivity." It gets a big thumbs up from us, but it is a bit more challenging. One last thought would be to try a third-semester physics course. MIT had one of those online, too. Sometimes, though, there is a corequisite of intermediate mechanics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daijobu Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Relativity Visualized Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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