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What are the best physics books for self-study?

A few I ordered the other day (still in post):

Fundamentals of Physics, Halliday, Resnick & Walker
Flying Circus of Physics, Jearl Walker
Thinking Physics, Lewis Carroll Epstein
Relativity Visualized, Lewis Carroll Epstein
Back-of-the-Envelope Physics, Clifford Swartz
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, John Gibbon

Would like more recommendations, please. I'll probably buy Feynman's lectures (I already have them downloaded but would prefer a physical copy) so don't bother with that, I know it's good.

>> No.4799368

Get some real undergraduate level books instead of the . Feynmann's books are pretty good, but the rest you have here are all layman's books lol...

Btw, Landau and Lifshitz is hard to beat for classical mechanics and statistical mechanics. Not sure what the best GR and QM textbooks would be... I wouldn't really recommend the ones I used.

>> No.4799374

>>4799368

fundamentals of physics is an undergraduate textbook.

>> No.4799388

I used griffiths to learn QM but I did it in the context of a class. Griffiths for QM for self-study is a bad idea, most of the material is in the problems. Maybe Landau or Feynman?

Right now I'm teaching myself GR with Schutz. He's pretty good at explaining stuff, but I'm only on chapter 3 lol.

>> No.4799389

>>4799362
I'm a mathfag but "Relativity Visualized" sounds fundamentally stupid.

>> No.4799392

>>4799389

wow, u sound really smart (not)

>> No.4799416

>>4799392
Have fun drawing 4-space. I'll stick with my differential geometry.

>> No.4799420

>>4799416
>not just visualizing n-dimensional space and simplifying it to the case of n=4
>2012

>> No.4799421
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4799421

>>4799416
>4-manifolds
>hard to draw

http://www.adamtoons.de/physics/gravitation.swf

>> No.4799425

>>4799421
Good job dumbass, you just gave us a link to a 2D manifold embedded in 3-space, and you have to ANIMATE it to get the time coordinate! A far, far, farrrr cry from a goddamn 4-manifold...

>> No.4799433

>>4799425
It's the same metric, lel, all of the geodesics are still preserved on the slice

It's not that difficult to add more null geodesic slices and get a full 4D depiction