Physics for Dummies

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Summary: Physics For Dummies should go to print as is!
Review: I intend to go to vet school when I graduate and so I didn't want physics to separate me from my dream. Ms. Zimmermann's book, "Physics For Dummies," helped me understand what was going on behind the scnenes of all the equations we were using - it helped me to understand the physical phenomenom the equations describe. I highly recommend this book, however, when I told her I was going to order it Ms. Zimmermann told me that the book I would get inthe mail (if any) would most likely NOT be the book she lent me to get through the first few quarteres of college freshman physics. I think it's a great book!

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Summary: Physics For Dummies by Kimberly C. Zimmermann
Review: I was fortunate enough to know the author and able to get a copy of the unpublished (unedited) book, "Physics For Dummies," by Kimberly Zimmermann and found this book invaluable in understanding concepts of college freshman physics while feeling bogged down with equations in the class room. I especially liked the "at home" experiments outlined in the book using only objects you have lying around your house. I passed the book along to a friend who took the class a year later who also found it helped him tremendously with the concepts of physics often lost in all the equations you are bombarted with while in class. What was especially neat was how the table of contents of the "Physics For Dummies" book written by Kimberly C. Zimmermann followed the freshman text, Holiday and Resnick'stable of contents makingh it easy to reference and supplement my reading. I was going to order the book to keep it as a reference, however, the author (a friend of mine) has informed me that when the book finally does get printed and arrive on my door step it's highly likely it will not be the book she wrote; that what I order will most likely end up being an entirely different book from an entirely different author. This is disturbing.

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Summary: "Physics For Dummies" is concepts, not just equations!
Review: I was struggling in my college freshman physics class when my friend copied her book for me to help with the concepts in physics so that I could understand the equations not just plug in values and get answers that had meaning, not just answers. Kimberly Zimmermann's book was a life saver because most physics books and classes emerse you in equations to the point that you have no idea what is really going on in a system. I was going to order her book because it's listed her on amazon.com, but she said no, not to bother that when my book came in the mail (if it ever did) it would no be her book - it would be some other guy's book that didn't compliment the table of contents of my physics book in the way that hers had. If the publisher chooses to sell her book I will buy it as I thought it was a great conceptual book.