Textbook Definition and 998 Threads

Every day on PF, I see people asking for recommendations for textbook on various things. They often get very good recommendations from what I've seen. But I want to turn the question around. Which book do you consider so horrible and so ill-written that you think nobody should read the book?

Can someone please recommend me a good textbook for Differential Equations that has lots of practice problems and less theoretical problems? Please tell me the name of the textbook, edition, and author. Thanks.

From Matter & Interactions Volume 3: Am I correct that there is something wrong with the statement of the velocity vector here? The components are missing in the statement of the problem, yes?

Can anyone please recommend me a good textbook for the course "Complex Variables with Applications" that has lots of practice problems and less theoretical problems? Please tell me the name of the textbook, edition, and the author. Thanks.

Can anyone please recommend me a good textbook for Linear Algebra? I want a good textbook for Linear Algebra with lots of practice problems and less theoretical problems. Please tell me the name of the textbook, edition, and author. Thanks.

I am about to take a teacher certification test for HS Chemistry. I would love to get suggestions from you on the friendliest textbook available out there for self studying, since I will study entirely on my own. The scope would be about two-semester introductory college level, I would also...

Homework Statement (Problem about a collision) (...). What then is their velocity in (a) unit-vector notation and as (b) magnitude and (c) angle. I will not post the problem due to copyright issues and that it is absolutely pointless now. The Attempt at a Solution I was able to solve (a) and...

Hello! I am an undergraduate student majoring in the chemistry and microbiology. Summer vacation is truly a great time to teach myself some some subjects besides conducting the scientific research, and I am decided to self-study the calculus over this summer (I took the introductory calculus...

There is definitely something wrong with my textbook. Could you tell if ANY of the answers are actually correct? I'm trying to compare with my answers, but it's just plain impossible to decipher if I'm going crazy or not...

I am reviewing to go back to grad school, and I need suggestions on a mechanics book to review. Having a readily available solutions manual is a huge plus since I am self studying. Recommendations? Thanks, Chris Maness

Does the answer from the textbook even make the slightest sense? How can there be three carbons?

I currently have Classical Mechanics by Douglas Gregory. I found that there are a lot of errors in his text mostly in Chapter 6 (Energy Conservation). Before I read some parts of Classical Mechanics by John Taylor but felt that he is too verbose that is why I have tried to scan other text. Any...

How do I copy and paste equations from the textbook pdf to word? I just want to make my own notes. And make them as fast as possible.

Hi everyone. I have a copy of Ordinary Differential Equations by Vladimir Arnold. I'm hoping to learn more about differential equations, building up to differential equations on manifolds. I've heard that this is a great book, but I've also heard Arnold sometimes leaves out important details...

Hi, I'm interested in how light and how electricity works so I'm interested in a beginners (undergraduate level) physics book that has the following: Giving intuition by showing each experimental setup - visually (with ppictures) and mathematically - which contributed to the understanding...

What are your thoughts on this excerpt from my chem prof's textbook? I have a few problems with the beginning of the text and a huge problem with the bolded statement. I understand the intentions of my teacher - structure - is highly important in chemistry. Not so much emphasized in general...

Homework Statement A pilot of mass m flies a jet plane on a "loop-the-loop" course by flying in a vertical circle of radius R at a constant speed v. The force that the cockpit seat exerts on the pilot at the top of the loop is (A) mg. (B) mg\left(\frac{v^{2}}{R+1}\right). (C)...

Hi, Background: I'm a junior self-studying Calculus, and I want to study from a rigorous textbook. I've seen many threads comparing and contrasting the textbooks of Apostol and Spivak. I have access to the online versions of both author's textbooks, but I find it difficult to concentrate...

http://d.kankan3d.com/file/data/bcs/2014/0508/w65h1446064_1399517186_873.jpg 1.How to deal with the delta functions in eq.2.3.153 to obtain the eq.2.3.154 by integrating over q'? 2.How to caculate the integral from eq.2.3.154 to eq.2.3.156, especially the theta function?

Hi guys I need a good introductory Textbook with full solutions on Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity I am an upper level undergraduate. Please pick ones that have solution thanks.

I've been thinking about this for around 7 months now, which is way too much; Munkres seems like the "typical" introduction to topology book (kind of like how Griffiths is the "typical" E&M text), and various people (from the reviews over at Amazon) make it seem like it is an undergraduate level...

Not sure if this is the best location to ask this lol, I find myself at a quandary, I'm an avid reader and I'm looking for more textbooks to add to my collection. Preference on the technical side. I prefer seeing the related metrics etc. Textbooks I already have. "First three minutes" by...

I am starting to review to go back to grad school. One topic I didn't feel like I did so hot in as an undergrad is QM. I want to go through a textbook myself. I was thinking about "Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Edition" by Ravi Shankar. Are other books that might be good for me or...

Homework Statement Supposed to find Ro for a CS MOSFET amp given V'A=10V/μm, L=0.4μm, and ID=100μA. Homework Equations Ro=ro=V'A*L/ID The Attempt at a Solution I say that ro=10μ*0.4μ/100μ= 10*10^-6*0.4*10^-6/100*10^-6 = 4*10^-8 Book says "10x0.4/.1=40kΩ" .. what exactly...

What's the difference between "Principles of physics" and "Physics for scientists and engineers" ? Both have the same authors and same publisher. Is it akin to Halliday's "Fundamentals of physics" vs "Physics" ?

Textbook problem -- Applied Mechanics textbook ideas? Due to in-availability of my textbook, I took a mechanics book by Egor Popov "Engineering Mechanics of Solids". The problem is, it doesn't have any answers for even numbered questions. One has to buy a solution manual to see them, which is...

Hi all. First year physics student here. I'm doing very very well in my course at my Uni (A++ after first midterm) I study by doing an insane amount of problems from 2 books. Both are about the same difficulty to me (Halliday, and the other is Young) is there a book anyone knows of that might be...

I don't like Jech's textbook on set theory because he gives these definitions written in this bizarre language and he doesn't restate the definition in colloquial English. That mathematicians feel its unnecessary to give colloquial examples of their definition or examples, in my opinion, is a...

Electric flux textbook discrepancy ?? my textbook says "q enclosed for the Guastian surface in a1 would be the positive charge enclosed by a1: the negative charge does contribute to the electric field at a1 but it is not enclosed by surface a1 and so is not included in q enclosed". ...…..;…...

Hi everyone, My subject basically revolves around diodes circuits and how to analyze them (AC, DC). What textbook do you recommend? (If there's one with many solved problems, that would be great.)

I am currently taking Physics II and need a good textbook to complement my course. We are using a free one, Spiral Physics, which is relatively worthless. It explains very basic concepts, but gives very few (if any) real-world examples and at least half the answers in the back for Physics II...

Homework Statement 4. Write the Maclaurin series for 1/√(1 + x) in ∑ form using the binomial coefficient notation. Then find a formula for the binomial coefficients in terms of n as we did in Example 2 above.Homework Equations { \left( 1+x \right) }^{ P }=\sum _{ n=0 }^{ \infty }{ \left(...

Hello I am interested in self-teaching basic combustion concepts. Is there a good textbook available that introduces combustion at an undergraduate level for someone with high school chemistry knowledge? Thanks very much

well i know that i should not be asking this.but seriously i am forced to do this as i have mentioned in 1 of my previous threads that i have no other way but to just cram in and digest the whole material.actually i am having my finals the end of this month i know the concepts the only thing i...

Hi I need a good book for circuit analysis (preferably, it should be available on my cell phone via, for instance, Kindle or Aldiko.. Or PDF). My curriculum includes AC and DC circuits with: Resistors Capacitors Inductors BJTs Diodes FETs (JFET and MOSFET) Opamps I have to be able...

I was reading an example problem in my fluid mechanics textbook that talks about the difference between liquids and gases. I am not sure why this is the case, if someone can explain that'd be great. So the problem is about two coaxial cylinders that rotate. There is a fluid in the gap between...

Greetings, I have never formally studied optics, and am looking to do so. I have looked around a little bit, and I have the impression that there are not really any "go-to" textbooks on the subject that everyone uses. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good (classical) optics...

**Please can an administrator move this to the "Maths and Physics Learning Materials" section- I can't post there for some reason. Thank you!** Hello, I am interested in learning some more technical Quantum Mechanics, and was wondering how accessible the Peskin and Schroeder textbook is as...

Hello, I am looking for a basic introductory textbook on electronics. Since it's introductory, nothing too rigorous required. Topics: Basic AC/DC introduction Current, Charge, Voltage Resistors Series/Parallel circuits Ohm's Law Capacitors Semiconductor devices (diodes, doping...

In the theory of degenerate perturbation in Sakurai’s textbook, Modern Quantum Mechanics Chapter 5, the perturbed Hamiltonian is H|l\rangle=(H_0 +\lambda V) |l\rangle =E|l\rangle which is written as 0=(E-H_0-\lambda V) |l\rangle (the formula (5.2.2)). By projecting P_1 from the left (P_1=1-P_0...

Hello so lovely people! I present my self: Ali, 12 years old from Niger, I decided to start learning physics on my own.Some people first recommended me to read a book titled "Conceptual physics" to get the sense of what we are doing physics, I have read it and it is excellent! Now I try to go...

HI - what is the best textbook, website or another resource to learn about ordinal numbers (Alph -0, Alph-1, etc) and their properties? I don't even know if there is a specific subfield of set theory that they fall under. Thanks!

Hello, The attached file gives survey statistics on the most used textbooks for core graduate physics courses (on the bottom of pages 3-7). For example, the data show that 76 out of 80 surveyed American physics departments use Jackson's book for their Electromagnetism course. I'm wondering...

Vector algebra and analytical geometry textbook I have a very comprehensive textbook written in portuguese about vector algebra and analytical geometry, but the author didn't include a bibliography at the book's end. What textbooks, in english, contains these syllabus (I'm pasting the list of...

Are there any well-written algebra 2 trig book that gives understandable contents for beginners?

I'm taking a class on Geometry next semester an I'm in need of a good book. It will be both euclidean and non-euclidean geometry and is a proof based course. Sorry, I know that's rather vague but that's all I know about the class. Thank you!

For example Griffiths' Electrodynamics, and Quantum Mechanics seems popular. and the prices are expensive. I'm curious about how much money the author make by selling these books.

Hello I am taking grade 12 advanced functions which is not that great; examples and questions aren't that good. I was wondering if there any other textbook similar to the Advanced Function by Mcgraw Hill Ryerson in terms of difficulty. I heard there is AP advanced function and AP calculus...

Hello! What calculus textbook do you recommend for microbiology major or other biology majors? I heard good things about Stewart, Spivak, Larson, and other legendary calculus textbooks, but I do not know which one is suited for the microbiology major. I really like to have one that is...

Is there a gentle textbook of complex analysis? Something equivalent to Larson's Calculus (or Stewart's). I have Schaum's Outline of Complex Variables (Spiegel-Lipschutz), and it's not bad.