Chemistry
Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter & Change by Silbergberg <---- General
Organic Chemistry by Wade
that's it for chemistry that I can recommend. Other usual topics are inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry but I'm not sure on which textbooks I'd recommend
Biology...
Arnold's text looks really good, is it comprehensive? I'm looking at Tenenbaum and Pollard but I'm a little hesitant since it was written in the 60's.
What do you think of Arnold's "Lectures on Partial Differential Equations" ??
An undergrad level PDE text that's considered a standard is...
Thanks for the suggestions, that V.I. Arnold book looks really interesting. Does it start you from scratch or does it assume you know all the basics?
I guess it's kinda like this:
Larson/Edwards' Calculus is to Spivak's Calculus as Polking/Boggass/Arnold's ODEs is to ________________'s...
I'm looking for some good ODE/PDE textbooks that focus a little more on theory but that are still comprehensive in their respective subjects.
I have taken ODEs and applied PDEs at my university but even though I got good grades, I feel like my knowledge is lacking.
The books we used were...
It's doable...
Last semester, I took Calc 3 (got an A), Linear Algebra (A-), Physics 1 (with lab) (A in both), Chemistry 1 (B+) (with A in lab), and Biology (with lab) (A in both)
This semester I took Mathematical Analysis (B), Physics 2 (with lab) (A in both), ODEs (A), Chem 2 (A-)(with B...
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Any books that might help if I'm considering Mathematical Physics?
I'm a physics major right now but the Physics Department is rather underfunded.
Im taking ODEs this semester using Polking's book.. its a decent book, but very example oriented which I'm...
It's ok, we used it in class last semester (never really read it).
Oddly enough I absolutely hated it, but I reread it and worked most of the problems over the winter break. I also got the complete solutions guide from Dr. Strang himself so the book was pretty useful to me. It was a really...
I recently made a https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=489019" about self studies in Physics. However, the topic mostly focused on physics books.
Here, I want to focus on math books. In particular, math books needed for undergraduate level physics (and maybe first year graduate...
Thanks for all those suggestions!
In replacing Halliday, with Kleppner for Mechanics and with Purcell for Electricity and Magnetism. What about the Waves and Thermo sections??
Are there any more particularly useful undergraduate level texts aside from the ones I've listed, maybe one that introduces QFT or statistical mechanics at the undergrad level, etc??
Or how about some graduate level texts that would be especially useful, not just in preparation for a Physics...
Essential List of Textbooks to Teach Myself Physics??
Not a *complete* list since there are tons of supplements.
However, I want to make a list of *essential* books I'd need to teach myself physics to the point where I may be able to pass the Physics GRE and have a reasonable head start in a...
Found it!
It's Michio Kaku's equation and it describes strings in 10 dimensions
It was on Discover magazine
http://discovermagazine.com/2005/aug/cover/article_view?b_start:int=3"