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Question for a Taoist. I've come across a reference to a text called 'the Kuan Tsu'. I thought Kuan Tsu was a person. Is there also a text by this name? I've searched but can't find it.

hi. i have worked through the mechanics and waves/optics portions of halliday/resnick/walker "fundamentals of physics" 6/e (an introductory physics text), and i want to continue on self-studying mechanics. could you suggest a formal mechanics text (or maybe it would be called a classical...

could anyone suggest a good quantum field theory text? i mean a text for a beginner who is familiar with basic quantum mechanics...also, since i am going to study it by myself( i am not taking a physics course ), a text that is simple in language and informal would be great.(i mean, like...

Hi. I am new to this discussion group, so forgive me if this is not the appropriate forum for this question. A friend of mine and I are going through the first volume of Weinberg's QFT trilogy. My question regards the first problem at the end of chapter two. I think I completely understand the...

Hi, I'm taking grade 12 physics atm and having a bit of a problem. The textbook we are using is also very old... published during 1980 so its very hard for me to try and learn by myself. My teacher is not helping much because in class many students end up helping the teacher solve the...

I found what appears to be a decent online text for an intro to differential geometry and general relativity. See - http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stefan_Waner/RealWorld/pdfs/DiffGeom.pdf Pete

If you cover printed text with a piece of transparent polyethylene film you can still easily read it. As you gradually lift up the film, the text becomes increasingly blurred and may even disappear. Why that? I guess it has something to do with the structure of the film's surface, but I'm not...

Analysis by Its History E. Hairer & G. Wanner Published by Springer, as part of their Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series. ISBN 0-387-94551-2 http://www.springer-ny.com Introduction: For many first year Mathematics undergraduates an introduction to Analysis is often...