I get the same feeling when I'm reading those types of books but I get the sense that they're necessary in order to score well on tests and be accepted into universities. I'm not a fan of this learning style which is why I'm trying to enhance my learning with other material.
I've done quite...
That's exactly what I find myself doing all the time and there's very little leading me to focus on the subjects I want to learn since high school is far too basic to teach what I want to learn. Once I start with something, I'm usually fairly good at sticking with it. But starting something is...
Luckily, I've found that a university near me has North America's third largest academic library and I'm pretty excited to go there one day in the next couple of weeks. A quick catalogue search showed that they do in fact own French's book. I have also found a PDF and, after skimming through, it...
Well, I completely agree with that and understand that but the fact that I'm still new to it all draws me towards the newest editions for now. I've never learned things using old material but I'm sure I'll love it once I do.
I must say, you're really encouraging me to purchase French's book...
Well this is the link the the third edition of his book.
The link to the edition I have is here but there is no description. The text above should be pretty similar though.
I'd have to agree with that although it definitely is always tempting to use the newest editions.
I took a look at both of these and the reviews seem to be pretty good. Would you recommend these textbooks over the one written by Knight in terms of preparing for university?
Thanks for the clarification!
I think that would be a much better use of the money than the resources. I just have a tendency to want to have physical copies of textbooks instead of using the electronic versions freely available. I'll consider the options and I guess I'm the only one who can...
Well that's reassuring! And that is exactly what I feel my brain doing every single day which is why I decided to ask around.
By "papers", do you mean the notes that accompany the courses? I'm sorry, I wasn't sure what you meant by that.
As for the Feynman Lectures, that is unfortunately what...
I'm currently finishing my grade 11 year of high school and I have hopes of attending one of the prestigious schools in the US such as MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, etc. I would love to be able to study physics in university and, since my school's physics courses are lacking any significant...