Head First Physics

Acknowledgments

The editors:

Thanks go to Catherine Nolan and Brett McLaughlin, who were editors on this project at various points, and coped admirably with the US-UK time difference. Thanks also to Mike Loukides for starting the whole thing off as far as Head First Physics was concerned.

Catherine Nolan

Brett McLaughlin

The O’Reilly team:

Thanks go to Lou Barr for turning my “wouldn’t it be dreamy if...” thoughts into reality with any artwork that’s more complicated than a line drawing. And also to Brittany Smith, who pulled off the impossible in the final stages of production. Plus Laurie Petrycki, Caitrin McCullough, Sanders Kleinfeld, Julie Hawks, Karen Shaner and Keith McNamara.

The reviewers:

Thanks to everyone on the opposite page. In particular, I’d like to mention Donald Wilke for his extremely detailed physics-specific comments and John Allister for a physics educator point of view that spanned the whole book. A lot of improvements post tech review were down to the comments of physics guinea-pigs Marion Lang, Catriona Lang and Alice Pitt-Pitts, who did a sterling job of pointing out where things could be clearer.

The distributed.physics project:

Note

Like distributed computing, but with a physics book.

Between them, these heros and heroines got through a draft of the entire book in a single day...

Alice Pitt-Pitts, Andrew Lynn, Brian Widdas, Catriona Lang, Emma Simmons, Gareth Poulton, Graham Wood, Hazel Rostron-Wood, Jason Williams, John Vinall, Marion Lang, Peter Scandrett, Robin Lang, Roger Thetford, Stephen Swain, Tim Bannister, Tim Dickinson and Will Burt.

Note

As well as to say: “thanks,” this is an experiment to test the theory that everyone mentioned in a book will buy a copy.

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