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Can anyone recommend a good introductory physics textbook that doesn't use calculus? I know how to do calculus, it's just that the physics course I'm taking doesn't use it because it's beginner's physics so I'm looking for a textbook along those lines.
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>Physics without calculus
Are you in high-school?
What physics course is that (mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics etc.)
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>>6579914
It's an introductory physics course in college. I think it's the equivalent to physics 11.
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>>6579845
>physics without calculus
This confuses me. For what kind of social science majors is this course supposed to be?
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>>6579845
it should be so easy that you dont need a textbook then
But the course like that at my university suggests
>Physics: 9th Edition, Cutnell & Johnson (Wiley)
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>>6579981
At my school there is physics for non-STEM people. It basically has no math and is mostly definitions and explaining things things without math.
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>>6579845
>I know how to do calculus, it's just that the physics course I'm taking doesn't use it because it's beginner's physics so I'm looking for a textbook along those lines.

So? Algebra/Trig based physics is more or less the same as Calc based with the derivations skipped. You still learn how the solve the same problems the same way so just read a better calculus based book that doesn't assume the reader is retarded.
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of course, later you ought to take a course in calc-based physics

>>6579914
probably a course based on average instead of instantaneous values; I remember a high-school course like that. basic mechanics and basic electrostatics with baaaasic thermodynamics (Q = mc(delta)t being as far as it goes)
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>>6579981

It's probably the physics course for premed and false science (geology/biology/cs) majors.
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>>6579845

If you insist:
http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Physics-Hideo-Nitta/dp/1593271964
http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Electricity-Kazuhiro-Fujitaki/dp/1593271972/
http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Relativity-Hideo-Nitta/dp/1593272723/
http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Universe-Kenji-Ishikawa/dp/1593272677/
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>>6580473
fuck off wog
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Fundamentals of Physics is a book everyone should read, seriously.

Calculus used in there is pretty basic and it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what's going on.
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>>6580473

>geology
>not the science with the most economically useful predictive power of any of the sciences

fuck off
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>>6579845
>Can anyone recommend a good introductory physics textbook that doesn't use calculus?
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