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NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MasteringPhysics does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MasteringPhysics search for ISBN-10: 0321982584/ ISBN-13: 9780321982582. That package includes ISBN-10: 0321973615/ISBN-13: 9780321973610 and ISBN-10: 0321997751/ ISBN-13: 9780321997753.The benchmark for clarity and rigor, influenced by the latest in education research. Since its first edition, University Physics has been revered for its emphasis on fundamental principles and how to apply them. This text is known for its clear and thorough narrative, as well as its uniquely broad, deep, and thoughtful sets of worked examples that provide students with key tools for developing both conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills.The Fourteenth Edition improves the defining features of the text while adding new features influenced by education research to teach the skills needed by today’s students. A focus on visual learning, new problem types, and pedagogy informed by MasteringPhysics metadata headline the improvements designed to create the best learning resource for physics students.
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University Physics by Young and Freedman is a pretty standard text for an introduction to lightly calculus-based physics. Covers basic classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermal physics, special relativity, and some motivation for quantum mechanics (without actually doing QM).
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics is an excellent and easy to read book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1108422160/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_omrWBbDYB9MN3
It's commonly used for introductory Astrophysics courses. If you don't have a basic understanding of Calculus it won't make much sense so, if you really want to properly understand the subject, first study basic Calculus. A good introductory Calculus book would be this one:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1285740629/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_JdsWBbH1KXPAN.
You're also going to want a basic understanding of Physics so one more for that:
University Physics with Modern Physics (14th Edition)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321973615/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_LfsWBbHJ83MT6
Those three books together should give you a basic understanding of Astrophysics and put your feet solidly on the road to further understanding. Read the Calculus book first (at least the first half of it or so) and then the Physics book. Then you'll be ready to dive into Carroll and Ostlie's book!
If you don't want to go quite that deep and you just want a really basic overview of the subject, you might consider finding Hawking's "A Briefer History of Time" or watching the PBS SpaceTime series in YouTube.
Edit: If the Calculus book is still a little unclear, your issue probably lies in Algebra. In that case, read this book before any of the others:
College Algebra (10th Edition)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321979478/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_MqsWBbR985C30
Good luck on your journey! Give yourself at least a year or two to get through all of them and don't forget to work the problems!
Oh - download Kerbal Space Program and play it for a while. Trust me on this; you'll develop a second sense of basic orbital mechanics ;)
This really depends on what you mean by "going from 0 to 100 in understanding higher physics." If you mean being able to go and read a paper on string theory in a physics journal and being able to understand what it's saying, then no. It takes years of study to get to that point, and even an undergraduate degree in physics wouldn't quite get you there. You'd need to go through several graduate courses on the relevant subjects before you can get to the point where you can start reading papers on something like string theory or high energy physics in general.
If, on the other hand, you mean having a working knowledge of the main areas of physics and what sorts of calculations are involved, then yes that is possible. It wouldn't be easy to do entirely on your own, however. Physics is best learned by doing problems, not merely reading on the subject. You have to be pretty disciplined and motivated to sit down and do a bunch of physics problems on your own without taking a class that forces you to do so, especially without other students to work with or having the guidance of a professor. There are some good introductory texts that cover a lot of the main areas of physics and are used in first year university physics classes. For example, this book is used in my school's lower division classes and it covers everything from Newton's laws to some basic particle physics. But no single book is going to contain everything you need. Once you're past the material in a book like this, you move on to upper division classes that require more math and have problems that are significantly more difficult than what you'd find in this book, and after that it gets even more difficult once you get into graduate level material.
So long story short, yes you can do some self-study to get you to where you have a decent knowledge of physics, but it's really no substitute for getting a degree in the subject.
University Physics
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