Understanding Physics by Isaac Asimov is a wonderful algebra-level book, but it only takes you up to about 1965.
Thanks for the steer, I'm running it down at Amazon. As my current grasp of physics is probably stuck around pre-Newtonian 1665, 1965 will be a big step up
87 posted on 05/05/2006 4:00:12 AM PDT by ToryHeartland
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