I'm an electrical engineer and I must say that griffiths book for electrodynamics is simply the best in explaining generally abstract concepts of electricity and magnetism. Infinite likes for the book!
I had to use Engineering Electromagnetics -- William H. Hayt, JR., John A. Buck . Derivations of formulas are poor (or not given). Basically says "Here's Faraday's Law, It's empirical." with almost no explaination of the physical mechanisms behind magnetic induction. Derivations constantly reference formulas (by number only) from other chapters, sometimes with circular references (See 3.17 -> See 9.2 -> See 3.17). The chapters on electrostatics are okay, the chapter on Magnetic Vector Potentials is awful. Completely non-intuitive explanations of transmission line theory and EM radiation. This book is for engineering students who specialize in memorizing formulas (short term) and use "cookbook" methods to get through a course. If you are an intuitive learner, and want a solid understanding of EM theory, buy and read Griffith's textbook before taking your EM theory class.
@@jessstuart7495 How about Electricity and Magnetism by Edward M.Purcell before taking advanced/further EM ? For Engineering EM, how about John Kraus's book and Elements of EM by Matthew Sadiku ? As for Sadiku, I like his book of Fundamentals of Electric Circuits (coauthored with Charles Alexander). That's the book I choose to relearn electric circuits. I used Hayt's books when was a student.
@@jessstuart7495 My friends at EE used either : - Fields and Waves Electromagnetics by David Cheng or - Electromagnetics Fields and Waves by Carl T. Jonk. What do you think of these two books ? If I have time, I want to relearn EM, although my priority is on Electric Circuits.
Lex Soft Purcell EM is fantastic. In my opinion better than Griffith for a first introduction as it offers more qualitative insights and the math is not as daunting. Purcell is a little less advanced than Griffith in terms of depth/math but covers more topics (like circuits). It’s better if you have some vector calculus under your belt if you plan to read either griffiths or Purcell.
A thermodynamics book I HIGHLY recommend is "An Introduction to Thermal Physics" by Schroeder. It feels more like you're going on a journey through the logic and physics of thermo and stat mech as opposed to having all the information thrown at you. The writing is very clear and engaging, and the problems are fascinating and focus on concept as well as math.
Raya just said he recommends it. This implies that he read this particular book and enjoyed this particular book. This doesn't in any way imply that they're saying that it's the best book on stat mech.
Griffiths, Cohen for Quantum, Goldstein for Theorical mechanics, D'Inverno for General Relativity, Stull for Meteorology, Huang for Statistical physics. Landau could be okay also. There are more but I don't remember them now.
I'm not really fond of Griffiths QM, although his EM book Is spectacular. I think his QM book is too handwavy and not mathematically rigorous for my liking, on that account, I prefer Townsend's QM. Still not a bad book though.
Hey! I've been studying down the road at VCU and I totally agree about Griffiths E&M. I had to find it on my own and it saved me. Also, as an introduction to Quantum we used Quantum Physics by Cameron Reed, which I think is a bit light in terms of difficulty but great for someone coming from Modern Physics and wanting to explore quantum. Really liking the videos, cheers!
In S. Korea, most of the Classical Dynamics textbook would be Marion or Fowles; some higher level universities use Goldstein. (In fact, these universities use whatever they want as a supplementary textbook, such as Landau, Feynman's lecture on physics, and more) P.S. Using Griffith is a universal rule in physics for an undergrad who learns Classical Electrodynamics for the first time. It's an established statement.
Marion for classical mechanics, Zangwill for electrodynamics, Carter for thermodynamics, Shankar for quantum mechanics (All of the above are recommended for undergrad. level). Though Zangwill maybe a little hard core in its mathematics for undergrad level, but I love the way he combine the meaning of mathematics and physics, for me, it is one of the best textbook for electrodynamics (except for the notation convention for special relativity). For Griffiths books in the video, I thought they omit too much mathematical detail to have me understand the physics content in it (for me, everything should start from postulate and carefully derived by mathematics).
UNDERGRAD: -Classical Mechanics: Goldstein -Electromagnetism: Griffiths -Quantum Mechanics: Cohen-Tannoudji -Termodynamics: I used Zemansky, don't recommend it though -Statistical Mechanics: I don't have a good option here GRAD: -Classical Electrodynamics: Jackson -Quantum Mechanics: Sakurai / Shankar -Statistical Mechanics: Huang / Pathria
@@f_ckaroundnfindout3915 I know... I used Goldstein and Landau... Taylor and Marion are other good options, but considering most Physics grad courses don't see Classical Mechanics (CM) again is also a good idea to use some of the advanced in CM2.
@Aditya Das That depends, if we're talking about master's / doctorate's level F. Rief is not so great, it can be a nice complement, though. Pathria's is a bit more suited for that level in my opinion.
CM: Goldstein EM: Griffiths QM: Shankar or Sakurai & Napolitano Thermo & SM: Kardar or Pathria Math. Methods: just do a minor / double major in physics If you don't want to spend money on textbooks, I felt that the freely available lecture notes by David Tong are some of the best for almost every field.
A shortcoming of Griffith's E&M, if you can call it that, is the clever construction of the problems. Literally all of them can be solved without putting down the book and taking pencil to paper. This is also a very good confidence builder.
I cry when I see others colleges books comparing them to the classes that I have. For example, for my first classical mechanics class we use Goldstein and Landau, and for electrodynamics Jackson, yeah, for undergrad. By the way, I agree with Taylor for understanding Classical Mechanics but I would add "An Introduction to Mechanics" by Kleppner and Kolenkow. For electrodynamics I would also add Purcell as a companion to Griffiths if you haven't already use it on a previous electromagnetism course. Lastly, for Mathematical methods I liked more Mary Boas Exercises.
My Thermodynamics professor used the Herbert Callen textbook through the semester... I find it to be a good book, although it has a harsh language to deal with. This textbook also has a small section about Statistical Mechanics that might be helpful
Greiner's series on theoretical physics is worth giving a try. Especially Vol.9 on statistical mechanics offers a broad perspective on thermodynamics (Pt.I), statistical mechanics (Pt.II) and some quantum statistics as well (Pt.III) with solved exercises. One should be familiar with elementary thermodynamics (Boyle-Mariotte, Gay-Lussac, ideal gas, pV-diagrams, Diesel- and Petrol-engines), which is all covered by Greiner on at least 100 pages, in order to understand what these thermodynamical potentials (internal energy, free energy, enthalpy, free enthalpy etc.) are all about. Once this is tackled, one can move on to the theory of Ensembles, which is very well shown on examples like the ideal/ultrarelativistic gas, spin1/2-system (keyword: 2DEG in semiconductor junctions) and real crystals with impurities. Once this is done, quantum statistics is just all about taking everything learned so far and keeping in mind, that the world is made of systems of bosons and fermions, which behave completely different due to Pauli's exclusion principle. This offers a great basis to move on to many-body physics, quantum field theory or the combination of both (aka condensed matter theory). Greiner accomplishes to "serve" the theory without having prior knowledge (e.g. from a experimental physics class) in a traditional (physics), but yet insightful and concise writing style, in which the mathematical rigorosity is not coming too short. Yet, you shouldn't expect this to be a treatise on mathematical physics. IMHO I don't recomend Landau's series to undergrads. 1. Physics=/=Maths: Unlike in mathematics, solving physical problems is all about understanding the physical nature. So before trying Landau, you should have "enough" (for me, at least 6 Semesters is reasonable) of physical knowledge (theory and experiment). As a first-timer on theoretical physics, Landau lacks to explain essential building blocks of the theory, which for him at that time was just "trivial" stuff. 2. Level of Problems/No solutions for the problems. Unless you're a genius (or you have too much time to waste for a single problem), the problems are far beyond everything requested of an undergrad student. Once my Prof. on quantum field theory and elementary particle phenomology said on Landau's books: "If you're able to do all of Landaus problems, then you're too good for all of this.", implying, that even a tenured professor is very likely not to be able to tackle all problems with ease, or otherwise put: If you're able to solve them, then why are you wasting your potential still sitting in an undergrad class? 3. Age: Landau concepted all of his books in the late 40s to 50s. Thats not a big deal if you're learning for ClassMech or E/M, but as it advances to QM and QED, more modern approaches (Sakurai, Cohen-Tannoudji) will give a better understanding of the theory since the experiments have evolved since then.
I used Kittel's thermal physics for statmech, never read it though. For quantum, my professor used a relatively new textbook, 2012 quantum mechanics a paradigms approach by mcintyre. It is interestingly different from griffith's as it begins off introducing spin and dirac notation, instead of the traditional approach of griffiths/sakurai that first introduces the wave function and Schrodinger equation. There is quite a bit of physics education research being done on this topic in teaching quantum btw.
For Stat mech/ Thermodynamics, My personal favourite is Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by F. Reif (along with David Tong's lecture notes)
For thermodynamics i recommend Heat and Thermodynamics by Zemansky and it's quite good Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics by H.B. Callen
The azmothial and polar angle thing annoyed me so much last semester. I took my first Multivariable Calculus Course the semester before and had learned the mathematicians convention, then in EMII used the physicists convention and expected us to do the same.
A brilliant book for vector calc is div,grad,curl and all that, by hm schey, it explains the basic integral calc and the divergence and Stokes theorems (not to mention proves them; albeit not very rigorously) with much clarity, and most importantly, intuitively.
I used Townsend for quantum mechanics. I thought it was pretty good. I had Townsend as my professor though, so maybe he was just good at using it to teach.
I'd recommend either Reif's or Huang's textbook for Statistical Mechanics. Reif provides and in depth discussion on the fundamentals and has an exvellent collection of problems, while Huang has a good treatment of more advanced stuff like Ising systems.
Yeah dude that was very usefull, i would like you to do more videos like this one, and why not some more vlogs as a major student in your university :D
Heard conflicting opinions on Griffith's QM book. Some say that after you read this book, you'll have a feeling you understand QM, but in reality you don't. They recommend starting with Shankar's book. It's harder, but it's still worth tackling the subject with it, instead of using Griffith's book.
For the classical mechanics, why not David Morin's introduction to classical mechanics? I used these two textbooks and found that all the problems in Morin's book have the full explanation, unlike Taylor's which only have the answer (with little process) to some of the problems. Personally speaking, I think problems Taylor's book are not interesting to me because some of those in the Taylor's book is simply plug-and-chuck, especially in the chapter of inertial force and central force. (I still remember that in the thrust section of the central force chapter, Taylor made nearly all these problems to "plug the number to the equation we have"). And I think there are many thought-provoking problems in the Morin's book (like those involving infinate symmatry etc.) It is true that Taylor covered more content than Morin's book in the optional part (and it is thicker), but some of the content, like those involving Young's Modules, in my opinion, are more of engineering than physics. And in some contents, Taylor does not go as deep as Morin, such as the explanation of Euler's angle, procession etc. Therefore, I think that Morin's book is a more "physics" textbook.
Mathematical methods by Mary Boas is reallyyyy fucking good. It’s like an 800 page book but very detailed and straightforward. Also has a bunch of exercises.
For stat mech what i used for self studies was the one from pathria, fair warning it’s not trivial like thermodynamics by schroeder. But the one by Ralph Baierlein is also nice in terms of Undergraduate level
The proof is trivial. The proof is left as an exercise for the reader. The derivement of this theorem is not covered in the text. The proof is rather simple, if computationally long, and is left up to the reader to pursue.
I want to know which elementary Physics book you (and your department) used when you were at 1st year. Halliday-Resnick is a classic one, but maybe you prefered Douglas Giancoli's or Hugh Young (formerly by Francis W. Sears). Also Calculus book and Linear Algebra.
Boyce is also good for ordinary differential equations. I like the way he explains it. I'm having difficulties grasping the basics of thermodynamics and I don't think I'm the only one. Do you have a good recommendation other than the one you mentioned?
I think a good reference book for statistical mechanics is "Statistical Mechanics" by Pathria and Bale. A good exercise book is "Statistical Mechanics" by Kubo, but the quantum statistical mechanics chapters are a bit short and not really deep.
Halliday-Resnick 10th Edition for ungergrad all day long. You can't go wrong. Griffith is used after you have a foundation. If you want a challenge, then the Purcell 3rd Edition is used in honors physics at some Colleges and even some upperdivision classes.
@@radwizard Which one of HR's Physics : - Fundamentals of Physics coauthored with Jearl Walker or - Physics coauthored with Krane I like the former, especially in the chapter Thermodynamic, although the later book looks good too. I agree Purcell's book is not for elementary level.
Is there a single book for whole of under graduation? Like covering every topic to the exact level needed. Or Is there a book covering every topic, at least, a little?
For your first question: I believe the cost of publishing a book that large would be reason enough not to make an in depth and fully comprehensive physics text. For your second question: yes. The first year undergraduate physics textbook will briefly cover the major branches of classical and modern physics in a reasonable depth
im a physics major just starting Classical Mechanics and Intermediate E&M. I'm starting to feel like im not fully prepped compared to the kids around me. What kind of resources should I be using to make sure I'm learning the skills I need to keep moving through my physics classes?
There is a thing with Sears-Salinger. It makes no mention on asymptotic approximations and I've found really hard to find a decent source on the theme. Any body could give me a hand, please?
While Griffiths EM book is great I didn't find the QM book to be that great. It leaves too many key results as exericises and while I do see the value in arriving at said key results yourself it is not always helpful to someone learning QM for the first time. Griffiths QM does seem to be one of the few accessible books to undergrads as other books I have looked at tend to be a bit more advanced such as Sakurai or Shankar. Also, for Statistical and Thermal Physics Blundell's book seems to be good but my class used Kittel and Kroemer which I found to be horrible as it will name things but not actually explain what any of them are.
open stax has a lot of good books on math and physics at least from pre-algebra-calculus 3, from hightschool physics to university physics vol 3 there only second edition but they give more in depth the math at least gives you the example they let you try it, prepare yourself after the example the the exercise after you read it,
I feel like those books you recommend are too elementary. At Caltech, we use Classical Mechanics by Goldstein, Electrodynamics by Jackson, Modern Quantum Mechanics by Sakurai, Thermal Physics by Kittel. Those books are rigourous and help you understand the problems deeply.
Diaming787 I’ve seen people rank Taylor higher than Thornton, but also heard great things about the Thornton book. I’ve just never gotten into it myself!
In undergrad we used Thornton and Marion, and I had a lot of trouble with it. Here in grad school when I was studying for my classical mechanics prelim, I borrowed someone's Taylor and I liked it a lot better.
I’m sorry, but the link in the descriptions isn’t working for me… could someone post a link to the solution’s to Grriffiths’s introduction to electrodynamics, would be really appreciated.
I am a simple man, I see Griffiths, I press like
Hahaha
I love Griffiths series
free online pdfs ftw
Yesss!
These freakin scammers of FLIXZONE. Damn.
I'm an electrical engineer and I must say that griffiths book for electrodynamics is simply the best in explaining generally abstract concepts of electricity and magnetism. Infinite likes for the book!
I had to use Engineering Electromagnetics -- William H. Hayt, JR., John A. Buck . Derivations of formulas are poor (or not given). Basically says "Here's Faraday's Law, It's empirical." with almost no explaination of the physical mechanisms behind magnetic induction. Derivations constantly reference formulas (by number only) from other chapters, sometimes with circular references (See 3.17 -> See 9.2 -> See 3.17). The chapters on electrostatics are okay, the chapter on Magnetic Vector Potentials is awful. Completely non-intuitive explanations of transmission line theory and EM radiation. This book is for engineering students who specialize in memorizing formulas (short term) and use "cookbook" methods to get through a course.
If you are an intuitive learner, and want a solid understanding of EM theory, buy and read Griffith's textbook before taking your EM theory class.
@@jessstuart7495 How about Electricity and Magnetism by Edward M.Purcell before taking advanced/further EM ?
For Engineering EM, how about John Kraus's book and Elements of EM by Matthew Sadiku ?
As for Sadiku, I like his book of Fundamentals of Electric Circuits (coauthored with Charles Alexander). That's the book I choose to relearn electric circuits. I used Hayt's books when was a student.
@@jessstuart7495 My friends at EE used either :
- Fields and Waves Electromagnetics by David Cheng or
- Electromagnetics Fields and Waves by Carl T. Jonk.
What do you think of these two books ? If I have time, I want to relearn EM, although my priority is on Electric Circuits.
@@lexsoft3969 ,
I'm sorry, I haven't read/reviewed these books, so I can't really offer an opinion on them.
Lex Soft Purcell EM is fantastic. In my opinion better than Griffith for a first introduction as it offers more qualitative insights and the math is not as daunting. Purcell is a little less advanced than Griffith in terms of depth/math but covers more topics (like circuits). It’s better if you have some vector calculus under your belt if you plan to read either griffiths or Purcell.
A thermodynamics book I HIGHLY recommend is "An Introduction to Thermal Physics" by Schroeder. It feels more like you're going on a journey through the logic and physics of thermo and stat mech as opposed to having all the information thrown at you. The writing is very clear and engaging, and the problems are fascinating and focus on concept as well as math.
I agree loved the book
Hell ya I loved it
wait a minute, is this the same schroeder as the QFT by peskin and schroeder?
@@ChrisChoi123 Yes
I used this in undergrad thermodynamics - it's excellent
For Statistical Mechanics I recommend: Concepts in Thermal Physics by Blundell and Blundell
Raya just said he recommends it. This implies that he read this particular book and enjoyed this particular book. This doesn't in any way imply that they're saying that it's the best book on stat mech.
F. Rief is better for stat mech
Yes
Fun fact: Blundell was my SR lecturer this year
Griffiths, Cohen for Quantum, Goldstein for Theorical mechanics, D'Inverno for General Relativity, Stull for Meteorology, Huang for Statistical physics. Landau could be okay also. There are more but I don't remember them now.
El Baron Samedi ( huang) I think he is a professor at MIT and teaches string theory
I don't think so (he is dead...). I'm talking about Kerson Huang.
Cohen for Quantum? Nice joke.
@@davidlima2982 What's wrong with Cohen-Tannoudji' s book?
@@davidlima2982 Same question as z ray: wtf is wrong with Cohen-Tannoudji? It's an unrivalled book!
JUST IN CASE I can’t solve it myself? As if I can solve anything myself in physics.
Haha ikr
I'm not really fond of Griffiths QM, although his EM book Is spectacular. I think his QM book is too handwavy and not mathematically rigorous for my liking, on that account, I prefer Townsend's QM. Still not a bad book though.
This is kind of a trip to watch in 2020. Definitely was made before you videos had as much personality as they do now.
Hey! I've been studying down the road at VCU and I totally agree about Griffiths E&M. I had to find it on my own and it saved me. Also, as an introduction to Quantum we used Quantum Physics by Cameron Reed, which I think is a bit light in terms of difficulty but great for someone coming from Modern Physics and wanting to explore quantum. Really liking the videos, cheers!
David Hood small world! I actually went to vcu for a bit. I haven’t heard of reeds book, I’ll have to check it out!
Virginia Commonwealth uni?
In S. Korea, most of the Classical Dynamics textbook would be Marion or Fowles; some higher level universities use Goldstein. (In fact, these universities use whatever they want as a supplementary textbook, such as Landau, Feynman's lecture on physics, and more)
P.S. Using Griffith is a universal rule in physics for an undergrad who learns Classical Electrodynamics for the first time. It's an established statement.
Marion for classical mechanics, Zangwill for electrodynamics, Carter for thermodynamics, Shankar for quantum mechanics (All of the above are recommended for undergrad. level). Though Zangwill maybe a little hard core in its mathematics for undergrad level, but I love the way he combine the meaning of mathematics and physics, for me, it is one of the best textbook for electrodynamics (except for the notation convention for special relativity). For Griffiths books in the video, I thought they omit too much mathematical detail to have me understand the physics content in it (for me, everything should start from postulate and carefully derived by mathematics).
I'd recommend Morin for Classical Mechanics; Binney and Skinner for QM.
For statistical mechanics and thermodynamics , Friedrich Reif is a great book. It builds everything from scratch that helps you understand better.
Why no one is talking about quantum mechanics concepts and applications by nourdine zetilli
It is a nice book. I prefer it over Griffith's which I did not find it that good to be honest. His book on electrodynamics is great though.
N zetilli is very good book and easier to understand.
This book is a gem
Halliday-Resnick for calc-based elementary classical mechanics
Duncan W -- I used that as a freshman 30 some years ago at the University of Arizona.
It's a bad book for dummies
I'd say it's a tad too elementary
E&M: Griffiths early undergrad, Jackson late undergrad
Statistical & Thermo: Schroeder is okay
Quantum: Griffiths, but definitely avoid Merzbacher
Zettili is more abstract & is good for competitive exams. For building base, it is griffiths.
UNDERGRAD:
-Classical Mechanics: Goldstein
-Electromagnetism: Griffiths
-Quantum Mechanics: Cohen-Tannoudji
-Termodynamics: I used Zemansky, don't recommend it though
-Statistical Mechanics: I don't have a good option here
GRAD:
-Classical Electrodynamics: Jackson
-Quantum Mechanics: Sakurai / Shankar
-Statistical Mechanics: Huang / Pathria
Goldstein is too rigorous for an undergrad.
@@f_ckaroundnfindout3915 I know... I used Goldstein and Landau...
Taylor and Marion are other good options, but considering most Physics grad courses don't see Classical Mechanics (CM) again is also a good idea to use some of the advanced in CM2.
@Aditya Das That depends, if we're talking about master's / doctorate's level F. Rief is not so great, it can be a nice complement, though. Pathria's is a bit more suited for that level in my opinion.
Wait Griffiths had solutions online this whole time? I just did intro E&M and QM...
CM: Goldstein
EM: Griffiths
QM: Shankar or Sakurai & Napolitano
Thermo & SM: Kardar or Pathria
Math. Methods: just do a minor / double major in physics
If you don't want to spend money on textbooks, I felt that the freely available lecture notes by David Tong are some of the best for almost every field.
*in physics -> in math
Omg thank you for mentioning Sakurai🙏 Such a great book!
Classical mechanics: Douglas Gregory
Quantum mechanics: Feynman lecture
For basics
For Quantum Mechanics I personally used A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics, by John Townsend. It was amazing.
yes
A shortcoming of Griffith's E&M, if you can call it that, is the clever construction of the problems. Literally all of them can be solved without putting down the book and taking pencil to paper. This is also a very good confidence builder.
For a first book on statistical mechanics, I really like "Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics by Keith Stowe".
Don’t forget Caroll and Ostlie for Astrophysics!
Awesome book, one of my favorite textbooks!
"I think I held that book upside down"
I think this was IRONIC considering it's a Quantum mechanics book 😂
I cry when I see others colleges books comparing them to the classes that I have. For example, for my first classical mechanics class we use Goldstein and Landau, and for electrodynamics Jackson, yeah, for undergrad.
By the way, I agree with Taylor for understanding Classical Mechanics but I would add "An Introduction to Mechanics" by Kleppner and Kolenkow.
For electrodynamics I would also add Purcell as a companion to Griffiths if you haven't already use it on a previous electromagnetism course.
Lastly, for Mathematical methods I liked more Mary Boas Exercises.
How's Concepts in Thermal Physics by Blundell?
Awesome! One of the best books in my opinion.
best Thermodynamics book.
My Thermodynamics professor used the Herbert Callen textbook through the semester... I find it to be a good book, although it has a harsh language to deal with. This textbook also has a small section about Statistical Mechanics that might be helpful
Certainly the best
I really like the Callen book because he's providing physical explanations and doesn't just throw a load of mathematics at the reader.
R.K.Patharia,Kerson Huang for Statistical thermodynamics.
Nouridine Zetilli, David Mclyntre,Griffiths for Quantum mechanics.
For statistical mechanics we use Pathria, Kubo, and Yung
For QM we use Zetilli and Sakurai
I love zetilli. One of the best books for QM
Concepts in Thermal Physics: Blundell & Blundell
Wow that's nostalgic.. I first watched this video when I was in 11th grade and now I'm a 2nd year undergrad physics major.
Greiner's series on theoretical physics is worth giving a try. Especially Vol.9 on statistical mechanics offers a broad perspective on thermodynamics (Pt.I), statistical mechanics (Pt.II) and some quantum statistics as well (Pt.III) with solved exercises. One should be familiar with elementary thermodynamics (Boyle-Mariotte, Gay-Lussac, ideal gas, pV-diagrams, Diesel- and Petrol-engines), which is all covered by Greiner on at least 100 pages, in order to understand what these thermodynamical potentials (internal energy, free energy, enthalpy, free enthalpy etc.) are all about. Once this is tackled, one can move on to the theory of Ensembles, which is very well shown on examples like the ideal/ultrarelativistic gas, spin1/2-system (keyword: 2DEG in semiconductor junctions) and real crystals with impurities. Once this is done, quantum statistics is just all about taking everything learned so far and keeping in mind, that the world is made of systems of bosons and fermions, which behave completely different due to Pauli's exclusion principle. This offers a great basis to move on to many-body physics, quantum field theory or the combination of both (aka condensed matter theory). Greiner accomplishes to "serve" the theory without having prior knowledge (e.g. from a experimental physics class) in a traditional (physics), but yet insightful and concise writing style, in which the mathematical rigorosity is not coming too short. Yet, you shouldn't expect this to be a treatise on mathematical physics.
IMHO I don't recomend Landau's series to undergrads.
1. Physics=/=Maths: Unlike in mathematics, solving physical problems is all about understanding the physical nature. So before trying Landau, you should have "enough" (for me, at least 6 Semesters is reasonable) of physical knowledge (theory and experiment). As a first-timer on theoretical physics, Landau lacks to explain essential building blocks of the theory, which for him at that time was just "trivial" stuff.
2. Level of Problems/No solutions for the problems. Unless you're a genius (or you have too much time to waste for a single problem), the problems are far beyond everything requested of an undergrad student. Once my Prof. on quantum field theory and elementary particle phenomology said on Landau's books: "If you're able to do all of Landaus problems, then you're too good for all of this.", implying, that even a tenured professor is very likely not to be able to tackle all problems with ease, or otherwise put: If you're able to solve them, then why are you wasting your potential still sitting in an undergrad class?
3. Age: Landau concepted all of his books in the late 40s to 50s. Thats not a big deal if you're learning for ClassMech or E/M, but as it advances to QM and QED, more modern approaches (Sakurai, Cohen-Tannoudji) will give a better understanding of the theory since the experiments have evolved since then.
Statistical Mech: Fredrick Reif, B.B. Laud, Kerson Huang, Pathria.
Classical Dynamics by Thornton
Quantum mechanics by David Miller
Statistical by Pathria
General Relativity by Hobson
I want to ask you this. If I have Thorton & no help from anyone will I be ok ?
This was exactly what I needed, thanks!
I liked Schroeder's Thermal/Stat. mech. Book. Good exaples, plenty of clear derivations. Over all a good thermal/stat mech book!
I used Kittel's thermal physics for statmech, never read it though. For quantum, my professor used a relatively new textbook, 2012 quantum mechanics a paradigms approach by mcintyre. It is interestingly different from griffith's as it begins off introducing spin and dirac notation, instead of the traditional approach of griffiths/sakurai that first introduces the wave function and Schrodinger equation. There is quite a bit of physics education research being done on this topic in teaching quantum btw.
About you question, for statistical physics the best book I found is: Thermal Physics by Kittel and Kroemer.
I liked Sears & Salinger for lower-division thermo/stat mech, and Thermal Physics by Reif for upper-division.
For statmech, I really liked Pathria, which we used in our class.
For Stat mech/ Thermodynamics, My personal favourite is Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by F. Reif (along with David Tong's lecture notes)
For mathematics I suggest Kreyzig’s Advanced Engineering Mathematics and Greenberg’s Introduction to Applied Mathematics.
Do you mean Michael Greenberg for the later book ? There is another book by him that has the same title as Kreyzig's book.
Lex Soft -- Yes.
For thermodynamics i recommend Heat and Thermodynamics by Zemansky and it's quite good Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics by H.B. Callen
Callen is the source of all mistakes ppl have on thermodynamics up to date
The azmothial and polar angle thing annoyed me so much last semester. I took my first Multivariable Calculus Course the semester before and had learned the mathematicians convention, then in EMII used the physicists convention and expected us to do the same.
Dave Mustaine The laplacian in spherical coordinates is what always got me because of that!
the balance a block on a sphere thing was on the national physics contest lmaoooo. or maybe it was AMC but one of them, saw it online and went to this
Classical dynamics of particles and systems by Marion and Thornton should be recommended for classical mechanics.
My favorite book ever was Sakurai for QM. Great book for beginners
0:45 i really agree on the videos on multi variable calculus
some of them were done by 3Blue1Brown
@@seungjunrhee yep!
A brilliant book for vector calc is div,grad,curl and all that, by hm schey, it explains the basic integral calc and the divergence and Stokes theorems (not to mention proves them; albeit not very rigorously) with much clarity, and most importantly, intuitively.
Four quantum mechanics I've always liked zettili. But I suggest the second edition because the first one has a lot of errata in it.
I used Townsend for quantum mechanics. I thought it was pretty good. I had Townsend as my professor though, so maybe he was just good at using it to teach.
I'd recommend either Reif's or Huang's textbook for Statistical Mechanics. Reif provides and in depth discussion on the fundamentals and has an exvellent collection of problems, while Huang has a good treatment of more advanced stuff like Ising systems.
Electrodynamics : Fontanesi Caldirola, or Mencuccini, or Mazzoldi, then Jackson
Shankar's book on Quantum Mechanics is so good that I ,a Mathematics major, who has never had any exposure to physics can easily understand it.
Really???👍👍
Its very thick and I don’t like reading
Can you recommend a good thin book
Classical Mechanics I studied with Grant R Fowles
Classical Thermodynamics I used Callen
Quantum Mechanics i highly suggest McIntyre
Yeah dude that was very usefull, i would like you to do more videos like this one, and why not some more vlogs as a major student in your university :D
WoW, I was expecting the Jackson recommendation and didn't hear the name falling even only once...
I agree with griffiths books for electrodynamics and quantum but I think kleppners mechanic book is the best for classic mechanic.
Geometry, Topology and Physics,-Taylor & Francis
I think kleppner and kolenow is better for mechanics. It goes deepere into the concepts and also has nice problems in the exercise.
i've just started my undergrad and i'm using kleppner & kolenkow
any tips for using the book?
Heard conflicting opinions on Griffith's QM book. Some say that after you read this book, you'll have a feeling you understand QM, but in reality you don't. They recommend starting with Shankar's book. It's harder, but it's still worth tackling the subject with it, instead of using Griffith's book.
Griffiths the GOAT for electromagnetism and quantum mechanics
For the classical mechanics, why not David Morin's introduction to classical mechanics? I used these two textbooks and found that all the problems in Morin's book have the full explanation, unlike Taylor's which only have the answer (with little process) to some of the problems. Personally speaking, I think problems Taylor's book are not interesting to me because some of those in the Taylor's book is simply plug-and-chuck, especially in the chapter of inertial force and central force. (I still remember that in the thrust section of the central force chapter, Taylor made nearly all these problems to "plug the number to the equation we have"). And I think there are many thought-provoking problems in the Morin's book (like those involving infinate symmatry etc.) It is true that Taylor covered more content than Morin's book in the optional part (and it is thicker), but some of the content, like those involving Young's Modules, in my opinion, are more of engineering than physics. And in some contents, Taylor does not go as deep as Morin, such as the explanation of Euler's angle, procession etc. Therefore, I think that Morin's book is a more "physics" textbook.
A Survey of Thermodynamics by Martin Bailyn. Conversational, historical, highly interesting, and written much like Griffiths.
Mathematical methods by Mary Boas is reallyyyy fucking good. It’s like an 800 page book but very detailed and straightforward. Also has a bunch of exercises.
For stat mech what i used for self studies was the one from pathria, fair warning it’s not trivial like thermodynamics by schroeder. But the one by Ralph Baierlein is also nice in terms of Undergraduate level
For Stat Mech there are two good books1.Fundamentals of Statistical and thermal physics by Reif 2. Statistical Mechanics by Patrick (Elsiever)
The proof is trivial.
The proof is left as an exercise for the reader.
The derivement of this theorem is not covered in the text.
The proof is rather simple, if computationally long, and is left up to the reader to pursue.
Pathria is a good book for Statistical mechanics.
I want to know which elementary Physics book you (and your department) used when you were at 1st year.
Halliday-Resnick is a classic one, but maybe you prefered Douglas Giancoli's or Hugh Young (formerly by Francis W. Sears).
Also Calculus book and Linear Algebra.
"change in entropy is the arrow of time"-- Halliday/Resnick/Walker
Boyce is also good for ordinary differential equations. I like the way he explains it.
I'm having difficulties grasping the basics of thermodynamics and I don't think I'm the only one. Do you have a good recommendation other than the one you mentioned?
I would prefer Cohen's book on QM instead of Griffiths', but it's really unaffordable haha
Blundell for thermal physics
I think a good reference book for statistical mechanics is "Statistical Mechanics" by Pathria and Bale. A good exercise book is "Statistical Mechanics" by Kubo, but the quantum statistical mechanics chapters are a bit short and not really deep.
One of my favorite books is Semiconductor Physics by K V Shalimova. Give it a try when you have time. =)
Blundell's book on thermodynamics should be the Griffiths of thermodynamics
for thermal physics i highly recommend s garg and bansal
Hey have you found a new statmech book you'd recommend now?
Is Griffiths a reliable book for undergrad electricity and magnetism semester?
It's the best one!
Halliday-Resnick 10th Edition for ungergrad all day long. You can't go wrong. Griffith is used after you have a foundation. If you want a challenge, then the Purcell 3rd Edition is used in honors physics at some Colleges and even some upperdivision classes.
@@radwizard Which one of HR's Physics :
- Fundamentals of Physics coauthored with Jearl Walker or
- Physics coauthored with Krane
I like the former, especially in the chapter Thermodynamic, although the later book looks good too.
I agree Purcell's book is not for elementary level.
I used Griffiths to prepare for a high school exam in India 😢. Life sucks here.
Aah yes! Finally someone mentioned John Taylor...😌
And On The 8th Day God Said Let There Be Griffiths... Teach The Mortals My Son.
Is there a single book for whole of under graduation? Like covering every topic to the exact level needed.
Or
Is there a book covering every topic, at least, a little?
For your first question: I believe the cost of publishing a book that large would be reason enough not to make an in depth and fully comprehensive physics text.
For your second question: yes. The first year undergraduate physics textbook will briefly cover the major branches of classical and modern physics in a reasonable depth
lemon Danish that fell on the floor , Thanks, man. Really helpful.
University physics may be
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Thanks.
Yeah started reading it. Completed 7 chapters in it.
Resnick halliday
im a physics major just starting Classical Mechanics and Intermediate E&M. I'm starting to feel like im not fully prepped compared to the kids around me. What kind of resources should I be using to make sure I'm learning the skills I need to keep moving through my physics classes?
I really appreciate you thank you sooo much
lol "buy" i just search for free pdfs online
Everyone does, he just can't say that
We are PDF gang!
lol .. welcome to an already huge community. Please feel insignificant
Thermal Concepts in Physics is brilliant for undergrads
What are your thoughts on analytical mechanicas by Fowles? Is it a good option for my first course of classical mechanics?
I thought it was awful, but I used whatever edition was available in the early '80s, so maybe it has gotten better since then. I much preferred Symon.
a bit late to the party but what textbook would use for waves and optics
i use this one for my optics class, and its free!!! optics.byu.edu/textbook.aspx
There is a thing with Sears-Salinger. It makes no mention on asymptotic approximations and I've found really hard to find a decent source on the theme. Any body could give me a hand, please?
Statistical Mechanics... Kerson Huang
While Griffiths EM book is great I didn't find the QM book to be that great. It leaves too many key results as exericises and while I do see the value in arriving at said key results yourself it is not always helpful to someone learning QM for the first time. Griffiths QM does seem to be one of the few accessible books to undergrads as other books I have looked at tend to be a bit more advanced such as Sakurai or Shankar.
Also, for Statistical and Thermal Physics Blundell's book seems to be good but my class used Kittel and Kroemer which I found to be horrible as it will name things but not actually explain what any of them are.
Mohammad I couldn’t agree more with what you said about griffiths quantum. Shankar is graduate level if I’m not mistaken.
I've heard online that it can be used for some undergrad and grad. The first chapter on linear algebra in Shankar is pretty good.
open stax has a lot of good books on math and physics at least from pre-algebra-calculus 3, from hightschool physics to university physics vol 3 there only second edition but they give more in depth the math at least gives you the example they let you try it, prepare yourself after the example the the exercise after you read it,
Arfken for Mathematical Physics.
I use Nuclear reactions for Astrophysics by Ian j. thompson
I feel like those books you recommend are too elementary.
At Caltech, we use Classical Mechanics by Goldstein, Electrodynamics by Jackson, Modern Quantum Mechanics by Sakurai, Thermal Physics by Kittel.
Those books are rigourous and help you understand the problems deeply.
I know that our graduate course in e&m uses Jackson and our graduate quantum uses Sakurai.
What do you think about Classical Dynamics by Marion Thornton?
Diaming787 I’ve seen people rank Taylor higher than Thornton, but also heard great things about the Thornton book. I’ve just never gotten into it myself!
It's a trash book, with a thousand typos. First chapter is kind of nice.
In undergrad we used Thornton and Marion, and I had a lot of trouble with it. Here in grad school when I was studying for my classical mechanics prelim, I borrowed someone's Taylor and I liked it a lot better.
Donez Horton-Bailey same
I’m sorry, but the link in the descriptions isn’t working for me… could someone post a link to the solution’s to Grriffiths’s introduction to electrodynamics, would be really appreciated.
What about Feynman lectures on physics? Isn't learning from the best the best option?