Classical What is the best undergraduate book on Classical Mechanics?

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John Taylor's "Classical Mechanics" is highly praised for its clarity and effectiveness in teaching the subject. A user reflects on their previous struggles with classical mechanics while using Fowles and Cassiday, noting that Taylor's book has significantly improved their understanding. After completing the first chapter, the user experienced a breakthrough in comprehension, expressing enthusiasm for the book's writing style and problem sets. The overall sentiment is that it is an excellent resource for undergraduate students studying classical mechanics, making it a recommended choice for those looking to grasp the concepts more effectively.

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I took a CM course when I was a sophomore in college using Fowles and Cassiday. Out of all of my physics courses, I struggled by far the most in there (And consequently, learned the least.)

So, it's a few years later now and I've decided to try and relearn CM using Taylors' book. I'm just finishing up the first chapter and it was like a bunch of light bulbs going off! I hope the rest of the book is this well written!
 
I read the whole book and work through all problems, it was a real juy and the book itself is excellent! Highly recommended! the best undegraduate book on the subject!
 
The book is fascinating. If your education includes a typical math degree curriculum, with Lebesgue integration, functional analysis, etc, it teaches QFT with only a passing acquaintance of ordinary QM you would get at HS. However, I would read Lenny Susskind's book on QM first. Purchased a copy straight away, but it will not arrive until the end of December; however, Scribd has a PDF I am now studying. The first part introduces distribution theory (and other related concepts), which...
I've gone through the Standard turbulence textbooks such as Pope's Turbulent Flows and Wilcox' Turbulent modelling for CFD which mostly Covers RANS and the closure models. I want to jump more into DNS but most of the work i've been able to come across is too "practical" and not much explanation of the theory behind it. I wonder if there is a book that takes a theoretical approach to Turbulence starting from the full Navier Stokes Equations and developing from there, instead of jumping from...

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