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So as the title suggests, I'm looking for some introductory books on Star Formation. I have a rudementary idea of the concept from a module I took last year which I found really interesting. I'm looking to apply for a research scholarship next academic year in which I would undertake a research...

We have so many great books available for Calculus, such as : Spivak's Calculus, Stewart Calculus, Thomas Calculus , Gilbert Strang's Calculus, Apostol's Calculus etc. These books are very nice but they teach you the concepts well and all the standard techniques that are available for solving...

hello, I am new here, nice to meet you here. I want to learn knowledge related to electronic components, can you recommend me some books or online website for me to study? thanks in advance

Hi all, I was wondering if I could get recommendations for texts/notes that delve deeper into the mathematics of QM as well as QM itself than what one finds in standard "Intro to QM" texts. Ideally it'd be presented in the style of Nielsen and Chuang's Quantum Computation book, but in greater...

Summary: Advice on books for software engineer logic puzzles for interviews and improve overall skills I am looking to getting into software engineering, and am having trouble with find the logic puzzle books or websites to prep for interviews. Now of course there lots of logic puzzle type...

I've been very interested in history a long time, read many books and watched many documentaries during the years. I've recently started to watch documentaries on parts of history I did not know very well (the Napoleonic era), and I thought it would be a nice idea to have a thread where those...

I'm master physics student looking for books in physical chemistry for stuff like born Oppenheimer Approximation and more. Most books give hand-waving proofs and I'm looking for a book which is more rigorous. Thanks

I have been lurking on PhysicsForums for more than a decade. I have been telling myself that I was going to learn physics for fifteen years, but I ended up studying computer science when I returned to school after having been an English teacher for several years. I am currently doing my master's...

My professor will be using Huang's Statistical Mechanics next semester and I have been reading a lot of polarizing reviews. Does anyone recommend a book to read parallel to Huang's to better understand the material and that discusses the same topics in similar fashion?

Summary: What books should I read to learn applied physics? If I want to study applied physics What books should I read ? What are the topics?

I was studying Particle Physics by Palash B. Pal. It is a good book, but after some chapters, I felt it is becoming incomprehensible, and I need some other book(s) to learn from a different perspective. I believe this a very common thing with students, and everyone knows that no single book is...

What are the best resources (books/lectures/articles) to learn Classical Electromagnetic Scattering (forward and inverse modelling)? I am an Electrical Engineer so I would prefer some resource which is from an applied perspective. My specific research topic is related to modeling and analyze 2D...

Hello all, I was wondering what are some good textbooks that are flimsy (not hard cover and printed on cheap paper so lightweight) that can be read on the train and the bus easily (the dimensions doesn't matter to me, all that is required is for it to be flimsy). I need such textbooks for...

I have recently started a book on QFT: A First Book of QFT by Amitabha Lahiri and Palash B. Pal. It is very well written until the chapter of renormalization, where, before correcting the ultraviolet and infrared divergences, the book itself diverges, and I couldn't make meaning out of what they...

What are the best books on QT Foundations out there? This seems to be a difficult question which has very different answers depending on who you happen to ask. There seem to be at least two different levels, e.g. intermediate texts and advanced texts, with a very wide gap in between, which is...

Hello, I have two questions into one. First I would like to know what books are considered the best to introduce the theory of quantum dots, so for example with the k.p method, tight-binding, empirical pseudopotentials, and other techniques, analytical derivations, optical properties, band...

Hi. I'm not sure, but if I may, I have some Mir books that are duplicates in my library. Anyone interested in having them for a good bargain ?

Hi, I'm looking for a book that deals with the mathematics and the physics of waves (sound waves, electromagnetic waves, maybe optics). Basically just "classical waves" (I'm not very interested right know in the applications to quantum mechanics). My math background is (courses that I took)...

I am working through physics for engineers and scientists 5th edition right now. I have met many people who strongly believe a certain textbook is better than others. Can someone please clarify the differences? I have access to Fundamentals of physics 10th edition and wondered if working...

Hello, I am interested in learning more about photosynthesis. My background is in physics, mostly condensed matter and atomic physics (graduate level). I have not taken a chemistry course since high school but I am looking for a book that starts from a physics point of view anyway. What are some...

I would like to read historical documents where the chemist that succeded in synthetizing a new molecule explains the process he used to obtain his results. Does that exists? Instead of reading about solving the shrodinger equation in a square potential I would like to read how someone actually...

I'm looking for leveled books of original most important scientists' titles, both for aprox.3 - 4 grade and / or beginners in science. I would appreciate any information available, either in English, or Spanish. Tjank you in advance. Montserrat

I am looking for a book for learning Python so as to compute matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, divergence, curl (i.e vector calculus). If you also have online recommendations please feel free to write them.

Back in the day, when Perl was my go to language, Programming Perl, the Camel Book, from O'Reilly was The Reference. It was the quick and concise way to get an answer. And you'd probably learn something you weren't necessarily looking for and get a chuckle along the way. Now that Python is my...

Hello The short story is that I'd like to go through university level maths and physics because: I like maths and physics Deepening knowledge of maths would be useful in my programming career Formal education The longer story is that while being a kid, I loved mathematics. Took extra...

Many years ago in school, we used Jearl Walker's Flying Circus of Physics as a study tool. The physics principles covered are elementary, things you see in first-year physics. And yet he manages to ask questions that really test your understanding of those principles and your confidence in...

Can someone please suggest some good books on electricity and Magnetism for graduation in physics? Thanks for helping:smile:

Hi everybody. I am looking for some math books (Algebra Form and Function...Trigonometry...) I found a lot but i don't know how to download it :cry:

Looking for suggestions on books (or other learning material) that will help me improve my skills using Python for scientific computing. I am comfortable with Python programming (syntax, conditional statements, loops, etc.), and use it for data analysis in my undergraduate experimental physics...

It's been a while since I studied physics. I did a few basic courses in physics as a freshman, but I never studied any physics since, but instead majored in math and ended up doing a math PhD. Nowadays, I work on self-driving cars at a large tech company, where my work is mostly in computer...

Can anyone please suggest which books or articles can be taken which would start from a preliminary one for a newcomer like me for understanding the Brans-Dicke theory . Thanks.

I would like to know which books are the main sources for the Quantum mechanics 1/2 courses, and the professors use them most during their courses? Thanks for you reply in advance.

please suggest me a good book on the high energy physics where group theory is discussed for the beginner.

my current skills in math are differential eq and linear algebra... and I am about to start reading Feynman lectures of physics and planning to read all John Baez's recommended books.. after reading Feynman's, what would be the next best thing to do? learn more math? or jump already to core...

I have had around 2 year gap after finishing high school. The last 2 years of high school (11th and 12th grade where calculus, coordinate geometry, straight lines, circles, vectors, functions, quadratics, polynomials, probability, permutation etc. are taught here) , I barely studied and some how...

Hi guys, Can anyone suggest me some of the must read books for a computer science student for learning new things and improving the programming skills! Thanks in advance [emoji3531]

I am looking for something similar to this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3319533355/?tag=pfamazon01-20 But this is for QCD, I want the same for QED.

Hi, Two questions. Are Weinberg's "Lectures on Quantum Mechanics" a bridge to his QFT books? I read that his QFT volumes are excellent books, but not for the beginner. So, if I want to begin QFT, can I choose his "Lectures on Quantum Mechanics" for a graduate level QM book, and make the...

Hi, Anyone here still buy paper technical books? Most of the material in them is available on the web, although nor in the organized format provided by the book. So it would seem for it to be worthwhile buying a book on topics one is mostly unfamiliar with, in that the value of the book is in...

Hello, I have found two books that show physics branches with python examples: This is for mechanics: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319195957 The other on oscillation and waves: https://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319723136 I see in these books that the University of Oslo is doing...

Homework Statement [/B] (Solved. through the work on this post i found the mistakes) Most basic stability problems is introduced simply as a box with a load placed on its side. And you do the typical momentum calculation around the opposite edge. Most books/pdfs stops there. I have however...

Hello, I am looking for for some good books on non-standard analysis. Hoping for something simple and not too complex. Any tips on good books appreciated.

I'm a weak student in chemistry, by 'weak' I mean I lack some base I think. May please suggest some good books on inorganic chemistry? I want to study p-block, d- and f-block elements along with their important compounds and their preparation. Book should be concise as for me as a weak student...

I'm struggling with the math used in my college's calc-based honors physics class, even though I've taken calculus 1. ---What are some good books/resources to learn the math used in introductory physics?--- Preferably, it'd be nice if the math was taught using examples in physics. Having that...

Does anybody know any good books to learn math?

Hello, I am interested in any introductory books to non-standard analysis. My highest level of mathematical education is Calculus II via community college. Any help appreciated.

Hi. What books would be good to complement the Greiner theoretical physics series? Greiner covers Newtonian mechanics, analytical mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics (at great length), relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum field theory...

Hi, I want to start learning physics as I have never studied it in my life but have now taken an interest towards it. I have quite literally zero knowledge on physics, so assume I haven’t taken middle school or high school courses on physics, as I haven’t. I’m 17 currently, but that shouldn’t...

Hello everyone, I'm studying physics as an undergraduate and I'm currently taking the course special relativity. But sadly I'm not too big a fan of the book we are using for the course. So I was wondering what are the best books you know of regarding special relativity for undergraduates.

Hi. I am looking for physics books of a particular type: concise, and very well regarded. Two examples I found are "Mechanics", by Laundau & Lifshitz; and "Elementary Statistical Physics" by Kittel. Both are around 200 pages and they cover a lot of material. Unfortunately, I don't have the...