The Manga Guide to Relativity

I really liked this book. It's an illustrated story about the student body president who volunteers to learn about relativity from the cute physics teacher, in order to save the rest of the class from punishment from the cruel principal.Since I've read this book, I've read a few other books on relativity, and this is by far the best book. I highly recommend it to everyone, since relativity is an ill understood topic that everyone should really know about.I thought the manga format of this story was wonderful, as it quickly takes us into space, and quickly back to Earth. This illustrates some otherwise difficult concepts that are hard to visualize without jumping out into space, and then coming quickly back to Earth to apply them. Even though it's manga, it has a lot of pages of technical details, so this book has some good content, and isn't just a quick read.Pros:+Great artwork+Great story+The best introduction to relativity that there is!Cons:-The technical details in the fine-print pages take a long time to read-Spends almost all of the time on specific relativity, and skims over general relativity

This is an amazing book. It is interesting and I find myself learning more by following an interesting story than listening to an 800 year old man explain the subject matter while reading from a book. This book was suggested by one of my teachers and I enjoyed it so much that I bought the whole series. I highly recommend this.

My 9 year old girl bought this book by herself. She has read some other manga guide books before and she loves them. This book is challenge for her so she asks me to read with her. Now I love it too.

I expected that via the medium of manga, the subject of relativity could be more clearly explained or covered in a different manner from the usual mode of textbooks. However, there were a few blocks of pure text that more or less duplicated the work of textbooks.On the other hand, perhaps I was expecting too much. I wanted to experience an epiphany of understanding but it never really happened for me. This may be due to the fact that relativity was not an entirely new subject to me. For someone new to the subject, it may be an insightful adventure.I am still looking forward to the other books in the series of "The Manga Guide to...".

These education books are very nice and are easy to relate with the information in these books. These are great.

fun intro for the grandkids.

Great

fun.

I am a student that has just finished his A levels and will be entering university to study Physics later this month.As a physics student who has a great interest in manga (I read loads!) I decided this would be a great way to teach myself bits of relativity before my course.I've read several physics books reading this one which had material on relativity, although they were rather scattered, my knowledge of relativity had come form several books such as George Gamow, Brian Greene, etc. They all had good analogies and methods of explaining the concepts to me, although the book itself wasn't focused around relativity itself.So I certainly found this manga guide to be good material for readers to understand relativity from one single book rather than going through several.The ways the concepts are explained are extremely helpful since they are all done through diagrams and drawings which can fire ones imagination to imagine the actual effects of relativity taking place (i.e length contraction, mass increase, slowing down of time, etc).In the end of each chapter there are a few pages dedicated to the theory and mathematics behind it.The mathematics and theory behind it is rather simple, where proofs are shown and how these basic equations are used to give the right results.If you don't completely understand the equations and proofs, that isn't a huge issue, you can always move on and read the rest, after all the important part is understanding the concepts itself otherwise everything else will just seem super confusing! Working out the maths and theory later isn't a problem.Of course I need to write something about the manga itself!Well I won't dwell into the background story of the manga, its rather basic, about a student who has to learn Relativity for the summer vacation.Anyway, the art work is well done, a typical manga style art work but certainly good enough to go through with fun.There is a touch of comedy throughout the manga which makes it more enjoyable.The reason I gave this book a 4 star is because I wasn't too satisfied with its explanation of General Relativity.Most of the book is dedicated to explaining Special R, where only one chapter (the final chapter) is for General R.The way it is explained isn't as good as the rest of the book, where I think they could of explained the warping of space-time with more diagrams and to demonstrate how light is actually effected by the curvature of space-time (gravity) through these diagrams. Very little is emphasised on Geodesic lines (the line which provides the shortest distance between two points), since it is extremely important to understand how curved space alters the path taken by light or things around us.I guess more could of been written about General R to make it more helpful for the readers, I found it easier to understand as I've already come across these concepts in different books before.In general this is a good book to read as a introduction and I'm sure you'll understand the concepts by the end of it (maybe struggle through General R).I would recommend a book to help the understanding of General R, although these books don't focus entirely on General R only, which meant I had to gather bits and bobs from every book to solidify my understanding.Anyways, its certainly a fun book and you should enjoy it (:

Nice book, my 13 years old boy has liked it very much.

Fun way to explore complex subject.

Encuadernación: El exterior tiene un tacto gomoso, agradable al tacto y fácil de limpiar. La encuadernación es muy buena, puesto que el libro se puede abrir totalmente sin peligro de que salten hojas o quiebre la encuadernación.Idioma: Inglés. Asequible. En las historietas usa un inglés de la calle, fresco pero inteligible. En las explicaciones usa un inglés correcto y claro, todo muy bien explicado.Cómic: Dibujos muy, muy buenos, y la historia que sustenta las explicaciones es muy, muy buena.Contenido-Temario: La introducción histórica, o dicho de otro modo, los hechos experimentales que obligaron a crear la relatividad, está muy bien explicada. De hecho, en los libros de física no es normal que esté tan bien explicado, o incluso ni lo hacen. Luego pasa a la contracción de la longitud y dilatación del tiempo, justificandolo matemáticamente, de forma muy simple, sin aspavientos. Se necesita poca matemática, incluso cuando explica las transformaciones de Lorentz. No comete los errores de otros libros que manipulan algunas cosas para que la relatividad llame la atención. Sólo he visto dos fórmulas cuyo texto descriptivo es algo ambiguo, lo demás todo perfecto. Esquemas para comprender las fórmulas mucho mejores y más claros que en libros de texto más "serios". El último capítulo se dedica a la teoría general de la Relatividad, y da más información, y más clara que la mayoría de libros de texto de primero de carrera, y se coge el sentido de la Relatividad General mejor que en algunos libros especializados.Muy buen libro para introducirse en la Relatividad, o simplemente tener un esquema mental de qué trata la Relatividad. Muy buen libro para pensar en los problemas no usuales que se plantean en la Relatividad. No es un tebeo, no se lee en una hora, se necesita echar tiempo para sacarle todo el jugo posible. A veces es conveniente tener lápiz y papel al meterse a fondo en el libro.

Leitura divertida, e ao mesmo tempo muito enriquecedora. Estou no momento relendo o manga, em breve comprarei um sobre eletricidade ou calculo.