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The Manga Guide to Physics by Hideo Nitta (2009)
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Overview: Megumi is an all-star athlete, but she’s a failure when it comes to physics class. And she can’t concentrate on her tennis matches when she’s worried about the questions she missed on the big test! Luckily for her, she befriends Ryota, a patient physics geek who uses real-world examples to help her understand classical mechanics-and improve her tennis game in the process!

    In The Manga Guide to Physics, you’ll follow alongside Megumi as she learns about the physics of everyday objects like roller skates, slingshots, braking cars, and tennis serves. In no time, you’ll master tough concepts like momentum and impulse, parabolic motion, and the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration.

    You’ll also learn how to:

      Apply Newton’s three laws of motion to real-life problems
      Determine how objects will move after a collision
      Draw vector diagrams and simplify complex problems using trigonometry
      Calculate how an object’s kinetic energy changes as its potential energy increases

    If you’re mystified by the basics of physics or you just need a refresher, The Manga Guide to Physics will get you up to speed in a lively, quirky, and practical way.

      "I found the cartoon approach of this book so compelling and its story so endearing that I recommend that every teacher of introductory physics, in both high school and college, consider using it." —American Journal of Physics
      “Absolutely amazing for teaching complex ideas and theories. . . Excellent primers for serious study of physics topics.” —Physics Today

Genre: Non Fiction, Manga, Educational, Physics.

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The Manga Guide to Physics

    Hideo Nitta author, writer
    Keita Takatsu, and TREND-PRO Co. artist
    Published by No Starch Press, 2009. 248 pages.

      Excellent introduction to Physics, by Rob Wehrli on July 4, 2009

        I think that this book would be an excellent introduction to physics for teens and adults alike. My initial impression of the book is probably tainted by my previous exposure to physics, which were presented in a complete flat and rigid way compared to the content of this book.

        I believe that those who are not already through college undergraduate-level physics would benefit the most from this book. I’m certain that the presentation method is easier to accept and is certainly more interesting for all. I found that the first chapter labored a bit on the lesson, but that subsequent chapters went by rather efficiently. Then there was the "inner-geek" in me who loves continuous mathematics who wanted to argue that the ball-in-hand is not a static state but dynamic, though for the purposes of the book, the explanations were appropriate.

        As far as the story goes as presented by the illustrations, I found a bit to dislike. The characters exhibited extremely wide ranges of emotions from seething rage to adoration, sometimes as quickly as within a couple of pages. While this may help boltser the effect of the lesson, I found it distracting and overstated. Of course, my opinion is based on my exposure to this kind of material, and this is a first of such trips into the realm of Japanese manga.

        I would strongly like to offer the book to a 15-16 year old who is pre-high school physics and take their reaction as input to this review because I think that we’d have a profound effect compared to handing Cutnell’s "Physics" 0471663158 (1088 pages) to a teenager. Interestingly, Cutnell’s book also has a tennis racket and ball on the cover :D

        In all, the book is a very good piece that is well presented and is interesting to read for its character development and story that convey most of the basics of physics in a unqiue and engaging way.

        Perhaps if I was more into Japanese comics, I’d be more inclined to give it a higher rating. It would be a very interesting study to conduct a semester-long pair of physics courses involving high school sophomores where one group gets this book and the other gets a "classical" presentation of the fundamentals. If I were a kid, I’d know which group I’d want to be in for sure!

About the Author

    Hideo Nitta, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Physics at Tokyo Gakugei University. He has had many papers and books published by Japanese and overseas publishers on subjects including quantum dynamics and radiation physics. He also has a strong interest in physics education. He is a member of the International Commission on Physics Education (ICPE), which is a commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

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