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- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 16, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Open Library listing for Thinking Physics. OL 21382430M.
- ↑ Touch This! Conceptual Physics for Everyone (Paperback).
- ↑ Conceptual Physics, by Paul G. Hewitt, first edition, 1987. Pages 47, 60, 164
