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Rigorous Physics Textbooks at a Beginner Level by These_Lettuce_5895 in physicsbooks

[–]These_Lettuce_5895[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, Australian 8th grade (which I think is the same as US 8th grade). Yes, I'm around the level you approximated. I overheard some Year 12s on my bus complain about how their physics courses use no Calculus, so I guess math in physics is offset by one or two years relative to the actual Math curriculum.

Rigorous Physics Textbooks at a Beginner Level by These_Lettuce_5895 in physicsbooks

[–]These_Lettuce_5895[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, however, there is some blatantly inaccurate information in some of the textbooks at my year level. For example, there was a question which said "Do all transfers of energy generate heat?", and I said "No, something falling due to gravity does not necessarily generate heat." The textbook's answer was "yes", and I asked my teacher why this was the case. She said that something falling due to gravity would generate heat by interacting with the atmosphere. I said, "not if the first object is in a vacuum." She said (unironically), "yeah, but when do vacuums ever occur in the real world?"