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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:36:33 -0800 (PST)
From: curtis osterhoudt<flutzpah@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Phys-l] General recommendations for physics books?
To: Forum for Physics Educators<phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
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Dear all,
I'd love to hear what books, websites, videos, or sets of notes (probably at
the college-to-beginning-graduate level) you might recommend for various
courses. Most books have arguments against them for everything they cover [e.g.,
a very well-reviewed text (on Amazon) on general astronomy seems so out of date
to me that it might as well have been from the 1700s, but it got a lot of the
basics right], but which ones would you have in your arsenal for main- and
supplementary-texts?
This is a remarkably broad topic. Many professors prefer to teach from a set
of notes, and use texts only for illustrative purposes or for historical notes.
I'd even love to hear about those.
* Algebra- or calculus-based introductory courses?
* Classical mechanics?
* Thermo/stat-mech?
* QM?
* Relativity and nuclear physics?
* E&M?
* Optics? Acoustics?
* Biophysics?
* Electronics?
* Fluid mechanics? Mathematical physics? Computational physics?
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