Cf. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/new-free-book-on-amperes-experimental-researches.840650/ here. A. K. T. Assis has written some free books on the history of electricity and magnetism. See all Assis's books here.
What are the most frequently cited __________ textbooks in the physics literature?
Where __________ is:
thermodynamics
quantum mechanics
classical mechanics
electromagnetism
etc.
?
I'm looking for lists based on citation statistics. Surely there are citations data out there on this.
Some good ones I found, which all advocate Weber's electrodynamics:
Wesley's https://archive.org/details/SelectedTopicsInAdvancedFundamentalPhysics
Assis's Weber's Electrodynamics
Assis's Relational Mechanics or his 2014 update, Relational Mechanics and Implementation of Mach's Principle with...
Historically, I can only think of http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Pierre_Maurice_Marie_Duhem.aspx#1, whose first thesis in physics was rejected, but his second thesis in mathematics was accepted.
But,
Are there other famous physicists who wrote a PhD thesis that was subsequently...
Has anyone here heard of such a thing as being immediately rejected from a grad school just because admissions didn't receive all the letters of recommendation? This just happened to me. They didn't even notify me; prior to this they lost my unofficial transcript, but they actually did notify me...
Yes, but how can geometry cause forces? Isn't force a change in momentum? Doesn't force imply movement? If a force isn't doing work, how is it a force?
Yes, but what causes the constraint force, if not inertial effects?