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Zwiebach solutions

Dear forum, have you the Zwiebach's book's solutions? thanks :valfano@inwind.it
 
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What about Quick Calculation 2.5? I believe its a cilinder...
 
donac said:
What about Quick Calculation 2.5? I believe its a cilinder...
No, I think it is [tex]T^2[/tex].
 
Whoops! Yes, George is right! I made the mistake of thinking in terms of the 2 identifications [tex]x\simx+2\pi R[/tex] and [tex]y\simy+2\pi R[/tex], that is
[tex](x,y)\sim(x+2\pi R,y),<br /> (x,y)\sim(x,y+2\pi R)[/tex],
which, as I came to realize, is discussed on page 31.
 
zwiebach

nitin said:
Hi yaqh and others

I have the solutions to almost all of the end-of-chapter problems. Given that a significant number of people have been seeking solutions, I'm willing to take the risk and supply the solutions to the exercises in Zwiebach's book to whoever is interested. The solutions are:
1) not copyrighted, as far as I can tell (so I think there's legally no problem to make it available to many)
2) are in PDF format
3) are more than 7 Mb large in toto (zipped)

To those interested, please post your emails on this thread. One thing though.. I would be very unhappy if you spread my email around, so please refrain from doing so.


Nitin


yes , I'm interested : valfano@inwind.it
thank
 
self-study

nitin said:
Hi yaqh and others

I have the solutions to almost all of the end-of-chapter problems. Given that a significant number of people have been seeking solutions, I'm willing to take the risk and supply the solutions to the exercises in Zwiebach's book to whoever is interested. The solutions are:
1) not copyrighted, as far as I can tell (so I think there's legally no problem to make it available to many)
2) are in PDF format
3) are more than 7 Mb large in toto (zipped)

To those interested, please post your emails on this thread. One thing though.. I would be very unhappy if you spread my email around, so please refrain from doing so.


Nitin


Hi, I too would appreciate solutions as I am doing a self-study over the summer: cam9man@hotmail.com
 
nitin said:
Thanks da_willem for the email address (solutions@cambridge.org). I sent them an email asking for access, and they kindly replied with the following info, which I provide here for those interested:

Go to: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521831431&ss=res

Click on "solutions". You will be prompted for a username and password. Enter the following:

Username: lecturer
Password: cambr1dge (note: spelt with a 1, not an i)

The solutions available so far are from chapter 1 up to and including chapter 16. They are available as downloadable PDF files. The rest, according to the correspondent, will be posted as soon as received from Zwiebach. Enjoy.

I had incredible luck today. I went to a second-hand book shop and I obtained Green et al.'s "Supertring Theory - Volume 1: Introduction" (CUP) and the 2-volume "Superstrings - The first 15 years of superstring theory" (World Scientific), edited by John Schwarz, all for just AUD$ 50 ! I think a (frustrated?) physicist recently dumped his books there.. lol


Hi Nitin or anybody who has zwiebach solutions,

I'm sorry for bugging you, I'm sure you've gotten a thousand of these emails but I would really appreciate a copy of solutions to Zwiebach's "A First Course in String Theory". My email is peter.winslow@gmail.com.

A million thank you's
 
It would be really nice if someone would send a copy of the solutions to indigojokker@yahoo.com

much thanks
 
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I have a question for someone at third year undergrad level.

Would it be worth trying to teach myself from this book before having learned GR/QFT, or am I better off getting a head start in GR and then attempting this book?

As far as I know the MIT students learn this course before having done GR. What do you think of this approach? Can prior knowledge of strings enhance future understanding of GR/QFT?
 
Hi there,

I almost cried when I found your post at physics forum! I'm a grad student from UC Berkeley currently trying to teach myself string theory. I'd appreciate if you can send me the solution to Zwiebach's text.

My email is:
joechien0218@yahoo.com

By the way, as far as I know not many schools in the US offer standard string theory course apart from MIT. UC Berkeley for the first time is doing this in the Fall 2007 by offering PHY 232A taught by Prof Horova, a supposedly one of the main contributor in string theory!

Anyway, thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Joe
 
I'm a biophysicist who studies vibrations in the ear. I'm doing some ST self study and would really appreciate solutions from anyone willing to send them.

Thanks! (doodlepi@gmail.com)
 
jdstokes said:
I have a question for someone at third year undergrad level.

Would it be worth trying to teach myself from this book before having learned GR/QFT, or am I better off getting a head start in GR and then attempting this book?

As far as I know the MIT students learn this course before having done GR. What do you think of this approach? Can prior knowledge of strings enhance future understanding of GR/QFT?

It's indeed written in such a way that GR is not a prerequisite. Actually, he does such a godo job that I personally think that it may be worthwhile to read his book (especially chapter 6) before doing GR (that's my own opinion, I am sure some people would disagree). As for QFT, his introduction is very brief so that might be a bit more challenging to absorb, but you may disagree. In any case, this is not an issue until chapter 9 I think and some people may find the background he gives sufficient to keep going (if not, other books can be used at that point to give some extra background). For the first 8 chapters, only some knowledge of special relativity, quantum mechanics and and lagrangian mechanics (variational principle, etc) are necessary. I would recommend going ahead with Zwiebach and trying to go as far as possible.
 
nitin said:
Hi yaqh and others

I have the solutions to almost all of the end-of-chapter problems. Given that a significant number of people have been seeking solutions, I'm willing to take the risk and supply the solutions to the exercises in Zwiebach's book to whoever is interested. The solutions are:
1) not copyrighted, as far as I can tell (so I think there's legally no problem to make it available to many)
2) are in PDF format
3) are more than 7 Mb large in toto (zipped)

To those interested, please post your emails on this thread. One thing though.. I would be very unhappy if you spread my email around, so please refrain from doing so.


Nitin
Hi Nitin
Could you please email me the solutions to Zwiebach's book at:
vivek[at]khimjee.com
Thanking you,
Vivek
 
nitin said:
Hi yaqh and others

I have the solutions to almost all of the end-of-chapter problems. Given that a significant number of people have been seeking solutions, I'm willing to take the risk and supply the solutions to the exercises in Zwiebach's book to whoever is interested. The solutions are:
1) not copyrighted, as far as I can tell (so I think there's legally no problem to make it available to many)
2) are in PDF format
3) are more than 7 Mb large in toto (zipped)

To those interested, please post your emails on this thread. One thing though.. I would be very unhappy if you spread my email around, so please refrain from doing so.


Nitin

Hi Nitin
I’m interested in getting the solutions to Zwiebach's book could you please email me the solutions to at
Xenomorph816@gmail.com
Thank you for helping me out
Xenomorph816
 
Hello,
I’m also interested in getting the solutions to Zwiebach's book. Could anyone please email me the solutions.
lilu42@gmx.net
Thanks a lot
 
we should reorganize this. It has some logic that people asking for solutions would first to ask to the people Last in the thread, and then when having a copy available to leave themselves their email, or to indicate that they are available via personal messaging in physics forums.

To begin with, I am making sure the four listed email addresses before this message do receive the file.
 
geoffc said:
I would be very grateful if someone could send me the solutions as well - Thanks in advance.

geoff.cope@gmail.com


:cry::cry::cry:
 
Thank you for pointing out that I am, in fact, a complete moron who doesn't take the time to read the previous posts. I e-mailed the person who posted before me requesting solutions, and as soon as I receive them will be happy to forward them to whoever asks. Sorry I made you cry.
 
No problem :-) :-) By the way, some other person has pointed to me that the file with the answers (or one of them) already can be found in some of the huge semi-underground repositories of scanned books in .djvu

I'd suggest to email not only the last person but the two or three last ones, just in case.
 
Has anyone had any luck finding solutions for Becker, Becker, Schwarz?
 
I have solution to zweibach's...
does anyone have solutions to becker becker shwarz'. I'd great appreciate if someone can email them to me.
jessica.martin2002 at yahoo.com
 
Solutions

Hello there! Could anybody please mail me a copy of the solutions to the Zwiebach-book? My email is leuat@irio.co.uk

Thanks in advance!
 
Hey guys, I'll love to have a copy of Zwiebach's solutions as well. Please send to "mailto:pitacrus@hotmail.com"[/URL]. Thanks in advance!
 
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Hi everyone! I too would like to request to have a solution to Zwiebach's Book and the solution to becker becker shwarz. My e-mail id is

lightspeedalice@yahoo.com
 
Hey guys, I'd appreciate it if someone could send me the solutions to Zwiebach's Book.

My email is: bob1182006@yahoo.com

Thanks in advance!