Recent content by Frimus

I'm definitely done with buying math and physics books for kindle. In most cases, it's a useless scumbag. I don't understand why Amazon didn't stop doing this a long time ago.

I would not classify this book in any way as 'mathematical methods for physicists', let alone for beginners. BTW is there someone here who carefully read it all the way through and understood everything in it? I have got the impression that even his so called popular books are readable only by...

David Tong (free lecture notes) Analytical Mechanics by Hand and Finch Classical Mechanics by Gregory (AM basics) Analytical Mechanics for Relativity and Quantum Mechanics by Johns

Introduction to General Relativity by Bambi. Excerpt from a book description: "Following the approach of Lev Landau and Evgenii Lifshitz, this book introduces the theory of special and general relativity with the Lagrangian formalism and the principle of least action." I found the book quite...

As for symmetry in modern physics I recommend Jakob Schwichtenberg Physics from Symmetry

"To say the Bible was written by men and may contain inaccuracies completely contradicts the word of the Bible." [from 100 Greatest Quotes from fundamentalist christians]

'Probability: For the Enthusiastic Beginner' by David Morin with a lot of interesting examples and exercises. Author's name is a guarantee of quality.

Another book dealing (to some extent) with DM is "Principles of Astrophysics" by Charles Keeton.

Look at a monograph "Special relativity in general frames" by Éric Gourgoulhon. It is a 800pgs gem, however I am afraid it's not a second, but at least the 4th text on SR.

Give a try to "Elementary Real Analysis" by Thomson and Bruckners. It is rigorous and includes a multivariable calculus too. You will realize that in spite that you can get it free from classicalrealanalysis.com, it is by no means *cheap* and hand waving book. It is intended for undergraduates...

Modern times are characterized by a shortening of the path from good intent to total madness.

It looks like there are no thoughts on the topic :-) Anyway, there are a lot of PF threads dealing with your question. Just pay some effort and look for them. As for me, I have got both Schutz and Hobson. IMHO they are a valuable introduction to the GR. From what you said I honestly recommend...

It always depends on personal preferences, but I think you will not be disappointed with Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne.

Recently I found a real gem for astronomy enthusiasts and junior undergraduate students. It has a plenty of pictures, diagrams, links to other resources and visualizations. You can access this excellent up-to-date Astronomy textbook (cca 1200 pages) for free in web view or PDF. I have included...

I encountered a strange mistake in Kleppner and Kolenkow textbook “An Introduction to Mechanics” (2nd Edition, Kindle version). This occurred in a “Note 1.1. Approximation Methods” in chapter 1. An example uses a change of the period of a pendulum due to a little change to its length. They...