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Hello. I'm not very good at reading, but I want to get better. I like science a lot, so, I want to maybe get some science books to enlarge my knowledge base and improve my reading capabilities. I'm looking for some recommendations for good science books. Some books I'm interested in: General...

1. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131118927/?tag=pfamazon01-20 ISBN: 978-0131118928 This is the book that my class syllabus suggests based off ISBN number, however it is $119.00 to buy off Amazon. 2. Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1107179866/?tag=pfamazon01-20 ISBN...

Does anyone have any good books, or other references, that they would recommend for studying for the thermodynamics & statistical mechanics portion of graduate qualifying exams? I didn't have any undergrad Stat Mech and my grad prof/class was really not good, to the point that I didn't really...

Does anyone know about some good modern physics books for an undergrad student? Not a textbook but just a simple paperback to give me an introduction to some typical topics discussed in a modern physics course. Thank you!

Okay, I have a good friend and he is into the idea of becoming a Mathematical Physicist; however, there's several issues at hand. He's in his mid 20's and attends a really cheap community college. Apparently his high school was horrible at teaching students good material; in other words, he...

Hello, all. I am looking for some good books to start becoming invested in mathematical logic, the foundations of the field of mathematics, and also basically in general the philosophical heart of this wide subject which has interested me greatly. Now I have already read Shoenfield and Halmos...

Hey everyone! (new to the forum) I am currently trying to self study more advanced mathematics. I have taken up to multivariable calculus and have taken a class for an introduction to mathematical proofs/logic (sets, relations, functions, cardinality). I want to get a head start on the...

Hi I am an undergraduate EE student into my 3-4th year. I feel like my fundamentals are not so good at times and I want to improve. I want some recommendations on what books to read to really help improve my fundamentals. I really don't like the textbooks we are reading. They are just too broad...

I am a medical student , but i am highly interested in physics and math and in medical school we are studying many interesting phenomenons , now we are not supposed to know more than the superficial bit of information they present us with , but i got really stuck with some matters and i really...

I have great interest in electricals, and in working with circuits, multimeters and the like. Can anyone recommend good books in electricals that covers topics to the depth and can be used as a self study book? I want to learn theory and basics first before going into practical knowledge.

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum. I am homeschooled, I left normal education after my first year of UK secondary school, I absolutely hated it and was bullied so my parents and I decided that I would leave and get homeschooled. Currently, I am pursuing a degree in computer science...

This is an example given in my textbook: "On a frictionless horizontal surface, you push with a force ##\vec{F}## on a book of mass ##m_1## that in turn pushes on a book with a mass ##m_2##. What force does the second book exert on the first?" First they calculate the acceleration of book 2...

I would like to attend this forum just to ask some things regarding theory of chaos... I found a lot of books, but still no one of them provided good information to understand chaos... I hope it will not be bothering to all of you...(?)

Hello. Based on very good reviews on this site I have chosen the books Kleppner Kolenkow Mechanics and Purcell Electricity and Magnetism to study the physics coursework for my first year in university. So here's my question: Does Kleppner Kolenkow cover all the prerequisites I am going to need...

Does anyone have any good recommendations for some introductory books on nuclear fusion that I can read from my phone?

Hello. What is a good book to learn Quantum Computing? I've being looking for the most common ones and reading some reviews at Amazon, and created this list: A Short Introduction to Quantum Information and Quantum Computation, Le Bellac, 2006 An Introduction to Quantum Computing Algorithms...

I have the opportunity to receive a book of up to a $20 value that must be related to mathematics, actuarial science, or education, so I was trying to find a good mathematics of physics or mathematics of chemistry book. Some of the ones I found are: -Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics...

Hello, can someone suggest me some introductory, or basic books on scientific computing(computational physics or computational biology) ? I m planning to study masters in it and I want to grasp the basics of it before i commit.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131103628/?tag=pfamazon01-20 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0133976890/?tag=pfamazon01-20 These two books are recommended by my school's C programming course and i can't decide which to buy. I have a big test in about a month in which i will have 2 hours to write 3...

What were some of your favorites tv shows, movies, and books what we all loved as a child that got ruined as an adult by learning physics?? Some of my favorites were Stargate, Star Trek the Next Gen, and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. But all throws dreams were killed off by physics as I got...

I am studying maths out of hobby. I feel sometimes that I can not move ahead because I get stuck with tough problems. Even after I move ahead, when i come back after quite some time, i get stuck with the same problems. Sometimes it is frustrating. And my interest and attention levels are going...

Mostly PhysicsForums is about . . . well, physics and its sub-specialities, plus math and so forth. However we have a fair number of threads concerning the role of scientists, science, and critical thinking in a democracy where expertise is unevenly spread, unevenly valued, and often questioned...

I don't know if there's anyone here from China, but I'll make this question the same way. I'd like to know if the Chinese books of Mathematics and Physics at undergraduate and graduate level are good (that is, if these books contain many challenging problems)?

I want to refresh my skool-achieved knowledge about Chemistry, and then I want to move in direction of Chemistry of Computer Systems, Chemistry of Brain, Chemistry of Neurons, Chemistry of DNA, etc. Any good advises about literature? For now I have this book in digital form - "Introductory...

Can someone recommend me some beginner/intermediate level books about gravitational waves and some articles about their discovery. I need to write scientific paper about them for my graduation but i don't have resources where to find about them so i would really appreciate help :)

I have a background in Calculus (Simmons and Lang), Linear Algebra (Lang), and Differential Equations (Simmons). I want to read a book in Mathematical Methods but I find that the treatment is just too superficial. Examples are, Mathematical Methods by Boas, Hassani, and Hobson. I want to know...

Are there books that are solely devoted to solving integrals and different methods in solving them ? I like solving integrals and I want to learn different techniques to solve integrals.

I want to learn more about the hardware and OS-level details about how threads and processes work. Can anyone here direct me to some good reads?

Hi! I am new to this forum. If there is a topic similar to this plase ignore me for not seeing it. In the last months, I have a feeling of wishing of learning physics. Therefore, I did some research that how to learn. I looked at a lot of sites but couldn't findy any specific books that are for...

I could have put this in "textbooks" but I am going for a more informal discussion. When I got my first copy of "Baby Rudin" I loathed it, as did just about every one of my classmates. I still think it is possibly a dated approach, and yet nowadays I return to it like an old friend. I...

I'm looking to just do some great reading on my own and want some suggestions. I could only use one prefix.

Can anybody tell me some of the best book for quantum mechanics which starts from basics to advance level

Which more recent books do you wish had been available when you were an undergrad student, grad student, or postdoc?

Hello! I would really appreciate it if somebody could recommend to me any books on geometric phases especially on Berry's phase. Thanks!

Hello! I'm looking for books (or webpages, anything is welcome) with exercises dealing with methods applied to the harmonic oscillator, especially creation and annihilation operators, coherent states, squeezed states, minimum uncertainty states, Fock states, displacement operators... I have...

Hello for All! Please recommend English-language books on mathematical modeling. Interested in a general theory. In Russian I know these books, but I would like to get acquainted with English. Thank you.

(In the United States anyway). When you sell books online, what methods do you use? How much do you pay? Do you use media mail? Flat rate boxes? I am selling some textbooks I'm no longer using, and I'm kind of clueless about this sort of thing. I've been going to a UPS store that does...

I'm a Physics and Russian Langauge major at school and was wondering if anyone has had any good run-ins with any undergrad level textbooks in Russian. The venerable Landau and Lifshitz on mechanics has been wonderful. Also, if anyone knows where I can find Matveev's "Mechanics and Theory of...

WiKi indicate Millimetre Wave Antennas for Gigabit Wireless Communications: A Practical Guide to Design and Analysis in a System Context Huang, Kao‐Cheng ; Edwards, David J. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd But our library do not have this book. Has anyone know other book on this...

Hello! I am an undergraduate currently enrolled in a course on theoretical physics. One big part of the course is on the classical field theory of electromagnetism(on its covariant formulation using Lagrangians mostly). So, I would like to ask which are some good books on the subject. Thanks in...

I'm a 2nd year Physics student! I want to learn electricity from it's absolute basics! Like AC current, how it is formed, where is formed etc. Please suggest me books which will tell me about the theory in details along with required mathematics too!

i studied mathmatics2 ( mechanices, calculus,algebra) three years ago . I want to refresh my memory to start with new field . What are the best books in maths in my case ?

Is there a book about how to do research in Physics or Physicist's experience? especially in Astrophysics, if not, general physics is also very good. thanks.

Hello! I am going to enroll in a Solid State physics course and I want to know what good books are out there on the subject at an undergrad level. Any suggestions are appreciated! Thanks!

Can anyone recommend a good book on weld design? I'm not looking for a general textbook on welding. I want something that specifically targets the design of joints and weld choices. Something like the welding chapter of Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design, just much more in depth.

I am a mechanical engineering student who got a master offer in space science recently. This master course is more like astrophysics. So if I want to systematically study astrophysics, where should I start and which books should I start reading first of all? Thanks!

Hi! I'm an undergraduate student studying mechanical engineering with some numerical knowledge of astrophysics. If I want to start learning quantum physics by myself, which books should I start reading? Thanks!

Hello all! I am looking at books related to proofs, I have been looking around and it appears that either, "How it Prove It" or "Book of Proof" seem to be the top recommendations. Has anybody had any experience with these text and/or could provide some insight. Currently I am working through...

Hello, I would appreciate it if someone would suggest some Quantum Field Theory books that an advanced undergraduate could read. Thank you!

Hello, I want to learn QFT but I feel that my understanding of Special Relativity is not good enough. Could you please recommend to me any good relativity books to fill my gaps? My gaps are mostly conceptual. Thanks in advance!