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Head First Physics
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Head First Physics

by Heather Lang
September 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
942 pages
26h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. Equations and Graphs: Learning the lingo

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Communication is vital. You’re already off to a good start in your journey to truly think like a physicist, but now you need to communicate your thoughts. In this chapter, you’re going to take your first steps in two universal languages - graphs and equations - pictures you can use to speak a thousand words about experiments you do and the physics concepts you’re learning. Seeing is believing.

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