We may have you to read a physics book each semester – once in 2^nd quarter and once in 4^th quarter – and report back on what you got out of the experience.

More mathematical than most of the others on the list, this book is about how physics applies to batting, rotation in a pitched baseball, and so on. Lots of equations and not for the faint of heart.

One of my favorite (non-fiction) books of all time because it talks about how basic physics ideas apply to sporting events.

Feynman is one of my favorite physicists of all time, and this book is a really neat group of stories and antidotal  experiences from his life. Feynman was one of the scientists developing the atomic bomb, was on the NASA commission to study the Challenger space shuttle disaster, and more.

A neat book that talks about basic ideas of physics and how the tie in to the momentum in collisions, forces in field goal kicks, and more. It also has a neat essay that discusses English-metric use of “pounds” or force or mass.

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Lederman was the commander-in-chief of FermiLab for a while and has an entertaining writing style. He looks at the history of science and how it ties together in our quest to understand the universe.

Not actually a physics book, it’s about how mathematics is important and how people can mis-represent or mis-interpret math to draw incorrect conclusions. (One example is the guy who carries a bomb on a plane because he knows that the odds of two bombs on the same plane are essentially zero..)

Read at your own risk.