The Manga Guide To Physics

As a junior high and high school science teacher, this is a useful book for introducing physics ideas to students in a nonthreatening manner.I do wish that the Manga guides didn't always feature male experts who save struggling female students.

My school's physics teacher actually recommended this book to me! I was too intimidated by physics, as a subject, to actually take the class(es) he was teaching, but I sought him out quite a lot to ask him questions and get clarification on things that I was trying to learn on my own. Apparently, I did this enough that, finally, he showed me this book and recommended I read it for myself. He said it was super helpful for both people beginning to study physics and people needing a refresher. He's actually assigned it as summer reading for his kids over the summer.Having finished it quite a while ago, I have to say, its main priority is definitely teaching physics, rather than plot. I'd say a good 85% of the pages are largely devoid of actual, anime drawings and dedicated mostly to long equations, math work, and explanations of basic physical concepts and the more advanced mathematics. This is frustrating because, sometimes, all you want to do is get back to the anime drawings so your brain can take a break from what feels a bit like reading a textbook; other times, though, it's really helpful to have the topics that were briefly introduced during the anime-drawing, plot-heavy part of the book explained in more depth.Overall, I'd say this book is tons more fun than a textbook! There's absolutely no doubt about that. Happily, I also don't think your sacrificing much--if any--of the educational quality you might get from a textbook. I mean, this book covers some serious physics, but it balances that heavy-duty, headache-inducing material with fun, light-hearted plot points and humor.Bravo, guys. I'm really grateful for this book.

Although the art was at times enjoyable, the explanations were sometimes accompanied by annoying interruptions and the book itself taught me little regarding physics.

When I was a college student I read the Manga Guide to Databases for funsies. Since then I own almost every Manga Guide that have ever been published.They are written much like an edutainment tv show, with simplistic story/characters to put more emphasis on the lessons. Each book typically follows a young, school aged boy or girl. Be warned if your teen think they're "too cool for school" or "too old for comics", they probably will not think kindly of this gift.The concepts are understandable within the comic in most cases. If not, each chapter ends with a text-only lesson guide that summarizes. Often the text goes into greater depth/detail than the comic itself.Physics itself requires a certain level of prior mathematical understanding (around Pre-Calculus or above). I would recommend this for high school level or above. Even better is if the reader is taking physics that year, it can supplement their learning. I never had the opportunity to take Physics until college, but even still I found the class and the book enjoyable.

The manga guide to... series is a great one so far. These books are a great way to get to learn such hard coledge level courses in a fast, easy, and fun way thanks to some cool manga and a professor from japan. Overall the book was very easy to follow and even at times very funny and made the process of learning more fun and enjoyable. I like to think of the fact that as a kid we were taught like this, so why can't those old ways work with such topics as physics? This isn't some sort of little kid comic the jokes and manga itself are for teens and up, and is meant to help out high schoolers or even college students. I really liked this book, and I am even going to try out some of the others, and would highly recommend any of these books to someone who wants to or needs to learn one of the topics of these books.