Enjoy an Entertaining and Free Pdf Book on Physics, the Science of Motion:
Explore the motion of plants, animals, lightning, satellites, charges, light and empty space itself! Be fascinated by molecular motors, black holes, the beauty of nature and the simplicity of how it works: Explore the principle of cosmic laziness – least action –, the maximum speed, the largest distance, the highest power, and gauge symmetry, the symmetry that explains electric motors, radioactivity and quarks!
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Translations by volunteers are available in Vietnamese, Serbian (Latin script), Arabic, French, Italian, Japanese, Farsi and Spanish. The original English edition has been improved for over 20 years.
The free pdf volumes of the 2021 physics textbook edition – the paper volumes are a pretty present by the way – tell about the race to make images floating in mid-air with lasers, tell about the sound of falling batteries, tell about how to measure images on the eye's retina in living humans, tell about the sounds deep inside the Earth, show the possibilities of very long baseline interferometry for testing general relativity, include the new definition of the kilogram and the other SI units, list the effects of weightlessness on cosmonauts, show how to multiply with fingers, explain how physics helps with basketball, and present many other stunning images, facts and stories about the motion of things, shadows, light, stars, planets, black holes and quantum particles.
Find out what fireworks, mobile phones and butterflies have in common, how muscles work, how colours appear, how levitation is possible, why we can see the stars, and which problems in physics are still unsolved. Enjoy many wonderful puzzles about nature. Read about the great advances in our understanding of the processes that surround us. Learn how the story of the universe shapes our night sky, the Sun, our landscape, our bodies and all the atoms that make it up. Find interesting experiments to repeat. Explore the power of the concepts that are used in physics.
If you are between the age of 16 and 106, you will enjoy reading these free physics books. These videos show why. Whether you learn or study physics at school, university or college, whether you are just curious about physics and want to learn about it by yourself, or whether you want new ideas for teaching physics, you will enjoy this free textbook. If you want more motivation and an overview of the wonderful stories and adventures that await you, read this section.
Entertaining and surprising on every page, the five free physics pdf files tell about
Vol. I: Sport,
raindrops and
animal life: mechanics, gravity and heat.
Vol. II: Moving
empty space
and the sky at night: relativity and the structure of the universe.
Vol. III:
Lightning,
lasers and nerves: electricity, optics, the brain, language and truth.
Vol. IV: Colours and the quantum of change: quantum
physics
and light quanta.
Vol. V: Pleasure and
the stars:
biophysics, nuclear physics and radioactivity.
Free download of
volume I - FALL, FLOW AND HEAT (260 MB).
Free download of
volume II - RELATIVITY AND COSMOLOGY (50 MB).
Free download of
volume III - LIGHT, CHARGES AND BRAINS (80 MB).
Free download of volume IV - THE QUANTUM
OF CHANGE (38 MB).
Free download of
volume V - MOTION INSIDE MATTER: PLEASURE, TECHNOLOGY AND STARS
(85 MB).
The Motion Mountain Physics Textbook is written for pupils, students, teachers and anybody curious about nature: the text is full of telling anecdotes, captivating riddles, unusual tables, astonishing photographs and beautiful films. It has been downloaded over 500 000 times. It is a fun pdf book that expands your curiosity and your studies.
Fun leads to fascination. Numerous fun facts are found in the book, purveying the charm of physics. The book makes the reader discover that precise observation, description and thinking are worth it. Nature is beautiful and full of riddles and wonders. Precision is important in learning, research, teaching and business. Distinguishing truth, mistakes and lies, the possible and the impossible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, is useful in all aspects of life.
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