理解物理学
Understanding Physics
Isaac Asimov · 初版 1966 年
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为什么值得读
- 文笔生动好读，可完全替代中学与大学基础物理教材
- 涵盖力学、热力学、电磁学到原子物理的完整脉络
- 通过重现重大实验与历史发现的过程来拆解原理
虽然我们许多人理解复杂的批评理论或金融理论，却无法解释为什么按下开关灯就会亮，或者收音机是如何工作的。在这部汇集其三本畅销书且未作删节、通俗易懂的合订本中，著名科普作家 Isaac Asimov 揭开了 physics 的神秘面纱，以门外汉易于理解的方式讲授基本原理。本书收录了 Motion, Sound and Heat、Light, Magnetism and Electricity 以及 The Electron, Proton and Neutron 的全文，将带你领略 physics 从古希腊发端直至现代的发展历程。
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……不可否认这两者往往是相伴相生的。我在学校做很多事情能“毫不费力”，是因为我早在几年前就学过了。我初中时就读过（并且反复研读）艾萨克·阿西莫夫讲物理基础的书（《认识物理学》/ Understanding Physics），所以在高中物理学得“不费吹灰之力”有什么好奇怪的？而在高一学化学前一年半，我就开始啃《Chemistry the Easy Way》辅导书了……
…there's no denying they're found together. I did many things "effortlessly" in school because I started learning them years before. I read (and studied and reread) an Isaac Asimov book on basic physics ("Understanding Physics") in junior high, so is it any wonder physics came "effortlessly" to me in high school? I started learning high school chemistry from a "Chemistry the Easy Way" study guide a year and a half before I…
读艾萨克·阿西莫夫的《认识物理学》（Understanding Physics）让我学到了不少东西。它涵盖了从基础到大学物理的几乎所有层次，而且不像普通教科书那样枯燥，它读起来真的很顺畅。
I learned quite a lot reading "Understanding Physics" by Isaac Azimov. It covers just about every level of basic through college level physics, and unlike textbooks it is actually readable.
……费曼《光与物质的奇异理论》；彭罗斯《通往现实之路》；格林《宇宙的琴弦》；格林《宇宙的结构》；格林《隐藏的现实》；侯世达《集异璧》（GEB）；阿西莫夫《认识物理学》；伊万诺夫《如派一样简单》（Easy as pi）；博耶《数学史》；罗宾《什么是数学？》；罗素《数学原理》；
…Strange Theory of Light and Matter; Penrose The road to reality; Greene The elegant universe; Greene The fabric of cosmos; Greene The hidden reality; Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach; Asimov Understanding Physics; Ivanov Easy as pi; Boyer a history of Mathematics; Robbins What is Mathematics?; Russel principia mathematica;
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Physics-Magnetism-Electr... 拿来替代我的高中物理课本简直好得出奇。他不光会写故事和散文。（而且这书真应该免费公开：都50年历史了，作者也去世25年了……
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Physics-Magnetism-Electr... was a surprisingly good alternative to my high school physics text. He wrote more than stories and essays. (And it really ought to be free: 50 years old, by a writer 25 years dead…
艾萨克·阿西莫夫的《认识物理学》是一本极棒的书，探讨了牛顿力学、热力学、电磁学以及原子物理学。它是通过讲述各项发现和实验背后的历史来展开的，这些……
Understanding Physics by Isaac Asimov is a great book that discusses Newtonian mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and atomic physics. It presents it by discussing the history of the discoveries and experiments that…
我本来也想推荐阿西莫夫的《认识物理学》（Understanding Physics）。我觉得《物理学漫谈》（On Physics）更像是一本文集，而《认识物理学》则更像佩佐尔德的《编码》，是一部从底层自下而上完整展开的著作。
I was going to suggest "Understanding physics" by Asimov. I think "On physics" is a collection of essays where "Understanding physics" is more a complete bottom-up treatment like Petzold's "Code".