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Hey, /lit/.
Can you recommend me any good Classic/Quantum Physics books?

>> No.7052063

>>7052057
Start with the Greeks.

>> No.7052070

>>7052057
did you ask /sci/? They probably would know better than us tbh. ask in a general questions thread

>> No.7052089

>>7052070
Alright, thanks anyways

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>>7052063

>> No.7053846

>>7052057
Qed the men who made it is pretty good.

>> No.7053886

>>7052057
The structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

>> No.7053892

>>7052057
Landau's textbooks.

>> No.7053902

Don't know if it's the best, but I went over some university curriculums back in the day.

>> No.7053971

>>7052057
The Feynman Lectures on Physics!
It's written very intelligently for physics 1-3 intros but on my money, one of the most fun and comprehensive treatments of those subjects, and a real treat to read. Available free online at www.feynmanlectures.info or as a text at a local library perhaps?
About $120 to buy the set but I'm definitely saving up to do so!

>> No.7053995

>>7052057
Are you looking for a book talking about the oh so wacky world of quantum, and it's billion possibilities? Or do you actually want to learn the science?

How familiar are you with the subject of physics? This is important.

>> No.7054003

>>7053995
This tbh

>> No.7054086
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>>7052057
-a book on logic to swiftly understand semantics and syntax
-a book on group theory, to understand the poincare group and the representations of a group
-a book on [finite] linear algebra for quantum physics
-a book on differential geometry for relativities

relativity = diff. geo+group theory
quantum phy = linear algebra+group theory

>> No.7054140

>>7052057
Read through Halliday and Resnick or University Physics First then try:
Classical Physics John R. Taylor
Quantum Mechanics David J. Griffiths

There are a lot of other texts, but these two are accessible. Also you are going to need to know some math. You will need to understand everything learned in the standard Calc 1-4 courses and linear algebra. Then you need to learn to solve ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. Stewart is good enough for the calculus, Lay is good enough for the algebra you will need, Farlow for differential equations. You will probably need another book for partial differentials, Brown and Churchill book Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems is what I used. It is going to take some time before you will be able to tackle even the most basic problems in QM (once you get there you also find out that there are only a few problems in QM solvable analytically).

>> No.7054149

I just started reading the Feynman lectures. I skipped ahead to the section on math... I think I would have done better in math if my teachers had explained it like this...

>> No.7054159

>>7054140
also ignore >>7054086

You do not need to know group theory or any high end analysis shit unless you are going into Grad Studies. A visual and intuitive understanding is what you seek, save the abstract and analysis shit for actual theorists and the meme slingers.

>> No.7054161

ANythiong by Brian Greene

:^)

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stemfags... go fuck yerselfs