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Mechanics by Arnold Sommerfeld- review
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[QUOTE="vanhees71, post: 4970468, member: 260864"] Sommerfeld was one of the greatest theoretical-physics teachers of all time. Just look at the Nobel-prize winners' list and check, who is a pupil of Sommerfeld's. The six-volume set "Lectures on theoretical physics" immediately shows, how this comes about. It's simply very good. He gives precisely all the mathmatical steps in a derivation with utmost clarity. Nevertheless, it's not a simple read. In my opinion the best volume of the entire great set is Vol. 6 on partial differential equations of mathematical physics. Of course, these books are pretty old (written in the 1940ies and 50ies) and thus not always up to date (e.g., he uses the "##\mathrm{i} c t## metric" for relativity or no Dirac ##\delta## distribution to define Green's functions although in fact he has invented this idea as early as around 1910). You should definitely have a look at Sommerfeld's textbooks but make sure to also have a look at more recent textbooks on the same subject. Of course, as far classical physics is concerned, there's not too much to be desired. [/QUOTE]
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