Book Definition and 999 Threads

I'm looking for a book on foundation of quantum mechanics. I started reading the book "do we really understand quantum mechanics" of franck laloë , and it seems to be very chatty and long. Do you have any recommendations? Thank you

I'm supposed to make a project on "Green Chemistry".so if you guys have any suggestions for a good book?

The book is Calculus: Basic Concepts for High School on the first page you are given the following sequence: 1, -1, 1/3, -1/3, 1/5, -1/5, 1/7, -1/7, ... several pages later the rule is given: in the second rule, for the first term in the sequence, the coefficient of one of the terms is 1/0...

I really like the book for how much it covers. There's not a single topic that's missed that is relevant to nuclear reactor design/analysis. Often other books can miss a topic or two. It's just that the style is not to the point and often time is wasted talking about things that are irrelevant...

I have failed a course on group theory for physicists in my university, and i need a good book to learn group theory from because anthony zee's book is simply too hard to read. His book is verbose, glosses over many concepts, and is not very rigorous. Then the exercises in the book are very...

Sort of like the one by Morris Kline titled "Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach". However this one barely scratches the surface as far as ODE and multivariable calculus go. In short I'm looking for a sequel.

Hello I am looking for an introductory linear algebra book. I attend university next year so I want to prepare and I want to become an engineer. I have a good background in the prerequisites, except I don't know anything about matrices or determinants. I am looking for the more application side...

The way I want to solve it is the way that I always want to solve separable linear diffEqs: after some trivial algebra and an easy integral I end up with t = (-1/2) ln (20-2x) +C Easy enough, solve for x(t) yields x(t) = 10 - (1/2)e^(-2t) + C Solve for C when x(0) = 3 yields C = -13/2 But...

Can someone please tell me what basic physics textbook that teach organ pipe? Thanks

I am looking for a (practice)book that has problems on definite and indefinite integration from easy to intermediate. also which book covers the prerequisites of calculus for books like Griffiths.(similar to the topics in chap 1 of Griffiths but more in-depth)

Hello! I was wondering if there'd be any problems using another QM book (like Shankar, Ballentine etc) in a course where the standard literature is Griffiths Introduction to Quantum Mechanics? By that I mean is there ever any disadvantages to going to a more advanced textbook (assuming you...

I came to know of a old russian book "Physics : A general course" by Savelyev. I have heard that the book was popular in USSR. Strangely, I could not find any review or mention of this book in the internet (searched through Google, Yandex, DuckDuckGo). PhysicsForum - One post of one thread...

sites or books for SHM high school and undergrad level. i want to understand SHM from the ground up and I am finding difficulty with my current sources

As a boy (probably about 1959/60) I read a book on astronomy which among other things briefly discussed Pluto . The author noted that it had been discovered as a result of discrepancies in the orbital motions of Uranus and Neptune, but was far too small to be the cause of these. Among other...

I can guess this question, by seeing that the surface area of the curved part must be in the form pi r l. Don't know how to get to this formula though. Answer is A

Homework Statement:: n/a Relevant Equations:: n/a I have been going through the baby version of the Morin Intro to Classical Mech book, "Problems and solutions in introductory mechanics." Each question, even some/quite a lot of multiple choice, is making me think upwards of 5 minutes and...

My 50 year old science book says, black is absence of all color. Do any books still say, black is absence of all color? I looked online for 30 minutes no where say, black is absence of all color. NOW everything says, Black is the darkest color. Why the change in books? If black is not a...

Summary:: Is there a primarily non-technical book covering all aspects of the Standard Model of particle physics? The Standard Model comes up a lot in YouTube videos. There must be a decent amount of public interest. I think there would be a market for a semi-technical but accessible for the...

Greetings, I have a question to the following section of the book https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319163741: I understand that the equation is separable, since I can just write $$ \int_{x_0}^{x} \frac {1}{V(x', \xi, \eta)}dx' =\int_{0}^{t}dt' .$$ However, without knowing the exact shape...

Hi. I just finished the single variable part of Stewart's calculus book which helped me to master AP calculus. Now I am planning to move on to non-rigorous multivariable calculus. However, I have found reading his book a bit painful since the book mainly focuses on problem-solving techniques...

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The answers show that the static friction between the book and the wall points in the same direction as the vertical component of the applied force. That is, Fsin(θ) + ForceFriction -Mg=0. But why does the friction point in the same direction as the vertical component of F? More generally, if...

Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes - could be a good read for quarantine!

I'm interested in a book which treats scattering in quantum mechanics aimed at the research-level. I'm particularly interested in a text which focuses on mathematical details such as the analytic structure of the S matrix, the relation between the S matrix and various green's/two-point...

How about his two books: Photons & Atoms and Atom-Photon Interaction? Are they basic?

Posting for my son (who does not have an account here): He's a sophomore math major in college and is looking for a good book on Lie algebra and Lie Groups that he can study over the summer. He wants mathematical rigor, but he is thinking of grad school in theoretical physics, so he also wants...

The dictators at physics.stackexchange want to close my post that I post here. I hope someone can help me with this question, I want to compute this by hand, without Computer algebra software, mainly because I don't know which syntax to use for Mathematica (if you know the syntax, can you give...

Summary:: Random processes, autocovariance, ergodicity, Gauss-Markov etc Hi I am a person who resolutely prefers depth over breadth, and currently I am trying to learn more about random signals and Kalman filtering. However, the books I have found so far will mention and superficially...

Hi, Is there any solution manual for Tu's "Introduction to manifolds", available in the net?

Hello, I am in my last year of undergrad and wanted a good book of diverse exercises to serve both as a memory refresher on my physics and as a fun pass time for this summer. Altho my goal is something that can span most of undergrad physics, I am not looking for anything easy and would enjoy...

What books are recommended for a course in condensed matter physics at a graduate level?

I'm just curious about this, and have for a while been interested in a good non-fiction about about science that I could read. Thanks.

My problem is on page 194 of the solution, where he writes: ##\frac{1}{2}\delta^{ab}\frac{1}{2}\delta^{ab}=2##. I assume there are three colours and thus ##a,b \in \{ 0,1,2 \}##. So I get: ##\delta^{ab}\delta^{ab} =...

I read every opportunity I get, and I'm usually studying from multiple textbooks at once. As a result I have a large collection of books spanning multiple subjects. Adding books to this collection is an (expensive) addiction for me. My favorites are The Feynman Lectures, my WW1 personal memoir...

Hello folks, I am currently finishing up a class on linear algebra, covering vector spaces, bases and dimension, geometry of n-dimensional space, linear transformations and systems of linear equations. I am only getting accustomed to proof writing for the first time in this course. However, I...

I want to buy the access code for university physics 14th edition.I know there are 3 volumes for this books.Is there one access code for 3 books or just one for each volume?

Summary:: A great book on space/the universe. I'm currently reading a book called"Space 10 Things You Should Know, 14 Billion Years For People Short On Time." It's a great book and it really explains some questions I had!

No-Nonsense Quantum Field Theory: A Student-Friendly Introduction by Schwichtenberg, Will let you know how it is when I read it. More details here

This is from Horatio Nastase "Intro to Quantum Field Theory" book (Cambridge University Press, 2019) , chapter 59. The reader is supposed to massage equation (3) into equation (4) with the help of the given polylogarithm formulas (1) and (2). I do not see at all how that's possible...

In this topic >> https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/stress-tensor-for-non-Newtonian-fluid.860240/ Mr. Chestermiller replies that "For a purely viscous non-Newtonian fluid (not viscoelastic), you use exactly the same form of equation as for a Newtonian fluid (see Bird, Stewart, and...

Hi, I'm looking for a book that explains more deeply (and a little bit more formal) the functional calculus than the typical introductions that I find in QFT books (like Peskin or Hatfield). Is there any good book for physicists to learn the mathematics behind functional calculus? Thanks

Hi there, I am an undergrad 1st year student in Physics. I wanted to self study the classical mechanics so that i can get hold of some very important concepts before it begins to rush in our class. Can you suggest me a basic Classical Mechanics book of undergrad level that will help to learn...

I read these lines from the book Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein- "Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses." what I interpret from is that knowledge is obtained by observing...

Can someone please explain what the author does here in 15.59? I do not understand both steps. Neither the rewriting of the derivative, nor the integral. thank you

Hi, I am an undergraduate student in the 3rd sem, we have Lagrangian Mechanics in our course but I am unable to follow it properly. Can you please suggest me a book that will introduce me to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics and slowly teach me how to do problems. I am beginner, so please...

Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PYMLZWJ/?tag=pfamazon01-20 Its available free if you have Kindle Unlimited. Many books do not get right that Einstein knew QM very well indeed and greatly admired Dirac, of whom he said: 'Dirac, to whom, in my opinion, we owe the most perfect...

Good evening, I have consulted several precalculus books, intermediate algebra but none of these lists irrational inequalities, trigonometric inequalities and more. In which book I can find them? Thank you :)

Does someone know of an official or unofficial errata for the above book of Weinberg?

I'm looking for a book about the theory of measurement in quantum mechanics. A book that goes deep into understanding different kinds and ways. thank you

I am trying to find some nice explanatory books about cosmological perturbation theory. I looked at Longair, Peacock, and Liddle. Even their level is nice, it seems to me that they are explaining things in a bit complicated way. Is there a nice textbook, articles, lecture notes that you guys...