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Good and helpful list. Finding Feynman in the early seventies pretty much transformed everything for me. His assertion that he can teach nothing, only create the impression that a thing is knowable, made perfect sense in retrospect. Having done that as a teacher, the student then teaches themselves. This feels exactly right to me. Feynman even got my basic maths sorted, differentiating(!) my divs from my grads and curls. Something my maths lecturers hadn't managed. And special lecture (19) on the Principle of Least Action has never stopped enriching my insights into just about any field including my current one of neuro-constructivism.
Classical Mechanics by Taylor is gem of a book- it covers Newtonian, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian (I use for newtonian the kleppner kolenkov intro to mechanics)
Good list. I would have both Griffiths books in the main list. They are excellent. I sat in on a friend's first time teaching from the E&M and it was good stuff. The problems in the book tend to have nice symmetries, if you spot them, and I was able to all of them without pencil and paper. I strongly disagree with MTW and subjecting young souls to the convoluted language of John Wheeler. Ouch! Though one of the two bits of instrumentation described in the book was invented by a friend of mine. I rather like the book by Ohanian, "Gravitation and Spacetime". There are many newer I'm sure but if I recall, he takes an approach as if Einstein never existed, with a linear approach and a series of modifications to fit experiments and gets the same result. You don't have to be steeped in projective geometry and differential geometry like Einstein and his cohort were (major topics when they were young) in order to come up with the whole curved spacetime. I good differential geometry book to go with the GR is Kreyszig. But I would urge any young physicist to study Clifford Algebras and Geometric Calculus. The two books by Macdonald are the place to start, 'Linear and Geometric Algebra' and 'Vector and Geometric Calculus'. I think he has some lectures online as well. The books are short and sweet. I believe a bunch of Quantum and GR are being formulated with this math today.
I kinda agree with you about MTW… I really hesitated including it in the list, but ultimately decided to keep it due to its reputation, thoroughness, and every time I have had a GR question I couldn’t find in other books, I was able to get my answer in MTW. Maybe it was coincidence… I haven’t read every GR book. It is a really difficult and technical book though.
I'm actually in the process on making a video on just that, as a number of people have asked me the same question. Should be out this week or the next.
Well, E&M is a gauge theory, so gauge invariance and the specific gauge theory of E&M will be discussed in any E&M book. But I suspect you want a book that talks about gauge theories, as a general mathematical concept (Lie Algebras, observables being gauge transformations, etc.). None of these books cover that. Btw I'm not sure I agree that modern physics is largely centered around gauge theories. Particle physics is. And people looking for a "theory of everything" often assume gauge theories are how to get there (although that hasn't panned out). But if you do any other type of physics, especially experimental, it doesn't really come up.
Good and helpful list. Finding Feynman in the early seventies pretty much transformed everything for me. His assertion that he can teach nothing, only create the impression that a thing is knowable, made perfect sense in retrospect. Having done that as a teacher, the student then teaches themselves. This feels exactly right to me. Feynman even got my basic maths sorted, differentiating(!) my divs from my grads and curls. Something my maths lecturers hadn't managed. And special lecture (19) on the Principle of Least Action has never stopped enriching my insights into just about any field including my current one of neuro-constructivism.
in the field of Education its called as "Constructivist approach", Feynman came with earliar I guess
Classical Mechanics by Taylor is gem of a book- it covers Newtonian, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian (I use for newtonian the kleppner kolenkov intro to mechanics)
I guess I will start with the Relativity book! Looks like it could be at my level! 😅😅
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Good list. I would have both Griffiths books in the main list. They are excellent. I sat in on a friend's first time teaching from the E&M and it was good stuff. The problems in the book tend to have nice symmetries, if you spot them, and I was able to all of them without pencil and paper.
I strongly disagree with MTW and subjecting young souls to the convoluted language of John Wheeler. Ouch! Though one of the two bits of instrumentation described in the book was invented by a friend of mine. I rather like the book by Ohanian, "Gravitation and Spacetime". There are many newer I'm sure but if I recall, he takes an approach as if Einstein never existed, with a linear approach and a series of modifications to fit experiments and gets the same result. You don't have to be steeped in projective geometry and differential geometry like Einstein and his cohort were (major topics when they were young) in order to come up with the whole curved spacetime.
I good differential geometry book to go with the GR is Kreyszig. But I would urge any young physicist to study Clifford Algebras and Geometric Calculus. The two books by Macdonald are the place to start, 'Linear and Geometric Algebra' and 'Vector and Geometric Calculus'. I think he has some lectures online as well. The books are short and sweet. I believe a bunch of Quantum and GR are being formulated with this math today.
I kinda agree with you about MTW… I really hesitated including it in the list, but ultimately decided to keep it due to its reputation, thoroughness, and every time I have had a GR question I couldn’t find in other books, I was able to get my answer in MTW. Maybe it was coincidence… I haven’t read every GR book. It is a really difficult and technical book though.
Wow I didn't know Albert Einstein had rhis book
Yeah it's a great book. Easy to read and short.
hello, what book did you follow to do the stellar physics course? Thanks for your content!😁
I'm actually in the process on making a video on just that, as a number of people have asked me the same question. Should be out this week or the next.
Should I start with Griffiths or I can study Jackson directly?
I would definitely start with Griffiths. Jackson is advanced, and used more for grad level and above. It's notoriously difficult.
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Which one(s) of those books go into gauge theory? Because that's what a lot of modern physics seems to talk about.
Well, E&M is a gauge theory, so gauge invariance and the specific gauge theory of E&M will be discussed in any E&M book. But I suspect you want a book that talks about gauge theories, as a general mathematical concept (Lie Algebras, observables being gauge transformations, etc.). None of these books cover that.
Btw I'm not sure I agree that modern physics is largely centered around gauge theories. Particle physics is. And people looking for a "theory of everything" often assume gauge theories are how to get there (although that hasn't panned out). But if you do any other type of physics, especially experimental, it doesn't really come up.
@@physicsalmanac I see, thanks for your reply.
I don't know why you didn't classified in different categories, the list seems random 😕
How about a video on the best mathematical books?
You mean physics related math? Or math in general?
@@physicsalmanacphysics related math😊
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