Re: [Phys-l] General recommendations for physics books?

[curtis osterhoudt <flutzpah@yahoo.com>]

Thank you, Kyle. I'm glad to see that there's a section for things like 
Environmental Physics and error analysis, too!



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From: Kyle Forinash <kforinas@ius.edu>
To: phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
Sent: Wed, February 2, 2011 10:07:05 AM
Subject: [Phys-l]  General recommendations for physics books?

Hi

I made such a list a few years ago based on suggestions from this List 
and other sources:

http://homepages.ius.edu/kforinas/ClassRefs/TextbookList.htm

kyle
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> Dear all,
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>     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 a very well-reviewed text (on Amazon) on general astronomy seems so out of 
date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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