Recent content by Muu9

And it's so close to 10^0.5, too.

See if you can find a used copy of "The Cosmic Perspective" or "Conceptual Physics". Bookfinder.com scrapes a bunch of sites to find the cheapest copies.

If you like Hewitt, why not use it? I think it's about as good as it gets for basic high school physics. For one level up, try "college physics" or "physics for scientists and engineers" by Randall Knight. It also has a lot of pictures.

I hear a lot of people recommend Zangwill over Jackson, but not vice versa. That being said, URochester's OPT 462 (an EM course for optics grad students) uses Jackson and Max Born: https://www.hajim.rochester.edu/optics/assets/pdf/gradhandbook.pdf

The timing would still be an issue

Discovery approaches are generally more taxing in terms of cognitive load due the student needing to focus on all aspects of the task rather than just those relevant to the lesson. https://scispace.com/pdf/a-comparison-of-cognitive-load-associated-with-discovery-506tao6xh7.pdf - this article...

I disagree - there's been interesting new developments in the field of psychology, namely Cognitive Load Theory, that support direct instruction.

I don't have an issue with chalk and talk - after all, pretty much every YouTube video is limited to that format, and there are some excellent YouTube videos out there (3blue1brown, Frederic Schuller's lectures). https://theamericanscholar.org/why-so-many-kids-struggle-to-learn/

Sorry, I don't get it

Did you do your bachelor's in engineering?

The book I linked also covers calculus in the complex plane.

What do you think you would get out of an MS in physics that you wouldn't get out of an MS in EE?

You mean this one?

A lot of complex analysis books are super rigorous and meant for mathematicians rather than physics students. A good applied text is the one by Zill - the first chapter starts with complex numbers so you can do it before calculus, but it will eventually start using calculus and assume you...

Spivak is closer to an analysis text than a calculus text. Thomas and Stewart are better options for a first course, maybe Apostol if you're super ambitious.