Good Books for Physics: ZapperZ's List

[Nusc]

How convienient. Did you know ahead of time before you purchased the book?

 

[jtbell]

Analytical Mechanics - Cassiday & Fowles

Classical Mechanics - Goldstein

How much do they differ in difficulty?

They're on completely different levels. The first one is for undergraduates. I used it in my second year, right after general physics (Halliday & Resnick). Goldstein is a graduate-level book. Actually, it's now Goldstein, Poole & Safko. And Goldstein died last February, alas, at the age of 82.

 

[Nusc]

Who's the third author Krane or Walker? hehe

 

[jtbell]

When I took General Physics, it was just Halliday & Resnick, and the cover was a bright orange so we called it the "pumpkin book." That was a looong time ago...

 

[Nusc]

It must be Walker.

 

[arimits]

hi... could anyone of you please suggest a book on biophysics... thankyou...

 

[Gokul43201]

It must be Walker.

Why must it ? My (1966) 2e copy has no third author.

 

[Nusc]

Oh I was talking about the 5e.

 

[Nusc]

In detail, would anyone speculate how much these books differ in difficulty?

Analytical Mechanics - Cassiday & Fowles

Mechanics (Course of Theoretical Physics) Lifshi_tz & Landau

 

[serali]

Classical mechanics of particles and rigid bodies / Kiran Chandra Gupta
I think this book is very good for UG level. Especially if you don't want to skip any details. Marion's book is mostly based on this.

I am looking for an introductory Geometry & topology book. I couldn't see any in the list...

 

[jtbell]

In detail, would anyone speculate how much these books differ in difficulty?

Analytical Mechanics - Cassiday & Fowles

Mechanics (Course of Theoretical Physics) Lifshi_tz & Landau

As I noted earlier, Cassiday & Fowles is an intermediate undergraduate-level book. Lifsh_itz & Landau is graduate level like Goldstein, and it's probably more difficult than Goldstein.

All of L&L's books had a fearsome reputation among my fellow students when I was in graduate school.