Fun fact: I (along with others) helped edit the Schwartz book (QFT and Standard Model) which was converted from a set of lecture notes from a class that Schwartz taught (for which I was a TA at one point). Though I played no role in the writing (I only checked all the equations and gave minor feedback), I always feel proud when people speak highly of the book. I'm glad you enjoyed it Andrew.
@@isaacmandell-seaver7223 used as an acknowledgement during a discussion of a good or clever point made at one's expense by another person. Source:google
The life of a physicist is 5% magic, 15% latex notes, 15% illegal pdfs of textbooks, 15% bookhoarding and 50% concentrated power of pain(after renormalizing pain to be finite)
Hey man just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you, for sharing your journey in physics. Which inspired me to change my major from aerospace engineering to physics. stay the way you are and keep your stuff up, greetings from germany :)
Note that there's a nice Wikipedia page called Common Integrals In Quantum Field Theory. I also did a book preview video my books for 2021, last week. It will be a reading year for sure, giving how we're still staying at home.
*Andrew,* you should invent your own "fundamental transformation" to bypass those obfuscated diagrams and infinities. The _Dotson's duality principle_ would make a nice Nobel acceptance speech.
So glad you feeling better Andrew. Hi from South Africa by the way, I absolutely love your videos, they have been inspiring to me while I have been going through my undergrad in physics as well.
as a math/compsci student, hearing physicists talk about integration (in 4-\eps dimensions? taking \eps=0? WHAT) is the perfect mixture of bewildering and entertaining :D
Andrew, in my Advanced Statistical Physics course we are using the renormalization to study phase transitions. It amazes me that a concept so strange is present in two (seemingly) very different areas of physics. Can you make a video explaining the relationship between renormalization in statistical phyics and in QFT?
Your renormalization references are fine, it's an insane process anyway. Normally in math we get rid of the infinitely small, but with renormalization we get rid of the infinitely large. There is no actual mathematical rigor to it, but the calculated potentials match the measurements, so they work, and we get on with our day, then we have a beer. Renormalization is often the result of that ocean of energy below the proportion of h-bar omega. But since we can't interact with it anyway due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty, ww just sweep the whole mess under the rug, as if it was never there. Kadanoff's statistical dynamics book is decent, but you already have a decent intro in Pathria, Chapter 13 to the end. Unfortunately, Statistical Dynamics grad courses often end before they hit the end of Pathria. If nothing else, read through the last chapters ... this renormalization is useful to get an answer, but we always need to remember that it doesn't really represent what Mother Nature actually does, and in that abstraction of renormalization, we lose sight of the beauty of Nature. The statistical approach at least tries to look behind the curtain.
A book I would definitely recommend (Maybe not for research, especially coming from a layman rather than a researcher) is Path Integrals for Pedestrians. They present, among other things, a path integral derivation of Wigner functions along with a dirty little scheme for hopping between a quantum path integral and a classical path integral with geometric quantization. It was very interesting to watch it come together throughout the book.
So happy you are good man! BTW I have watched a lot of your videos recently. Your channel made me return to theoretical physics. And this video is just extremely helpful
Know you through your memes video but I don’t know you’re a nuclear physicist too! The books you recommended are really good and I even own the first one! That book is really popular among graduate physics students even here in Japan. Glad to hear that you recovered and take care!
My advisor made we study renormalization using the book: "Renormalization Methods. A Guide for Beginners" by W. D. McComb. Excelent book but focus more in statistical mechanics
Concerning renormalization, there are also the following books: Renormalization, an Introduction, by Salmhofer. Renormalization Methods, a Guide for Beginners, by McComb. See also the lecture notes about Renormalization in QFT by Sunil Mukhi.
Hey I want to join Ph.D program in Astronomy at NMSU. I have submitted my application. I really wanna meet you (if I got admit). See you in Aug 2021. Hopefully. 😊😊
When sending me to resources for a final project, the head of my department recommended Kleinert's Particles and Quantum Fields, which, if you had the physical copy, would be the thickest boi of the stack. Definitely a great resource, at least as far as my limited use of it
I always found Ramond's Field Theory book way more elegant and in-depth than Peskin & Schroeder, but it's true that its status as being the standard textbook and the fact it's so comprehensive is probably what still keeps it up. I gotta check Schwartz's book for sure, though.
I started with Peskin and Schroeder as a starting point for QFT in my undergrad but got stuck just after ϕ^4 theory . After quartic interactions, the learning curve is very steep. I quickly moved to other references. And I would never advise anyone else to start with this one.
I’m a cosmologist but still watching for fun. In my research I probably reference Galactic Dynamics by Binney and Tremaine and Galaxy formation and evolution by Mo, Bosch, and White the most. Galactic Dynamics is super dense and mathematically heavy, to the point it seems more like a post-graduate level book but I’m still trying to get the hang of it. I would describe Galactic dynamics as Jackson E&M applied to gravitational fields (since the math and techniques are very similar) coupled with statistical mechanics ideas in describing particles using macroscopic ideas found in star mech (basically thinking of a system like a collection of stars or even galaxies obeying the same statistical laws and relations that microscopic gas particles do). Diffusive properties + potential theory = dynamics. MBW is pretty much the Bible of extragalactic astrophysics, and is by far my favorite cosmology textbook but it is also extremely dense and mathematically heavy. Rather than dynamics it focuses on applying full GR equations to the universe, and analyzing what pops out again using statistical mechanics principles, actual statistical methods (quantifying clustering of galaxies or even galaxy clusters is effectively just their variance in 3D space), and fluid dynamics (pretty much everything in cosmology obeys a coupling of separate GR and fluid equations).
Taking my first course in E&M (the University physics edition) and experimental physics (yuck), these videos give me hope that the future will be better
Sending some love for Schwartz's book! Other very interesting mentions that I personally found, and still find, very useful are Weinberg's books (even if the notation is terrible), Zinn-Justin QFT and Critical Phenomena and, last but not least, Coleman's Aspects of Symmetry which contains various advanced QFT topics presented in a very Coleman way, which is a very good thing
Not in QFT (or Physics per se) but I think I need to know both the path integral and second order quantisation formalisms, just because the former is where calculations for free energy come from, and the latter I figure I need to understand Kadanoff renormalisations (so I can understand stochastic processes).
Whenever I see a complex-looking maths equation, it just fascinates me to want to learn enough about it to be able to decipher what it means. Like that integral in the video. Good to know you're better now.
I haven’t read the last one on renormalization but read the first three. Schwartz is very good unless you read the chapter about path integrals. After reading this chapter path integral remains just a fancy sign. Showing how it works in quantum mechanics and then “by analogy” adopting it to field theory is NOT enough. Very few books really dig into this. My personal favourite is Itzykson Zuber “QFT”, it really explains what is going on.
Can you make a video about books for outside reading (not textbooks)? I recently attended a Neutrino Workshop during my winter break (4 sessions) and my professor recommended to us several challenging and difficult books for outside reading (The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg, Black Holes, Quasars, and the Universe by Harry Shipman, Frozen Star by George Greenstein, and Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne). I'm particularly interested in astrophysics and particle/nuclear/atomic physics books. Or, if anyone wishes to reply to me with some recommendations, I will be sure to check them out! In case you were wondering, I'm a sophomore who is majoring in Astronomy and Astrophysics, just so you know the level that I'm at.
One question which is pretty straight forward Does a charge constituent CONTINUOUSLY OR REGULARLY emitting VIRTUAL photons or only when any other charge comes into its range..
I’d love to hear your thoughts Andrew about the book titled “ quantum field theory for the gifted amateur “ , looking forward for more of your videos. Peace ✌️
I Like Weinberg! I will be a condensed matter theorist. I am new to QFT since I took QFT I just last semester and I am taking the second one this semester. But, I like Weinberg!
@Andrew Are there different types of theoretical physicists other than the differences between the areas they study? Andrew, it seems your current research is very specific? Is this due to the nature of theoretical nuclear physics or your choice to research very specific topics? I understood that theoretical physicists derive new equations from previously known ones and based on new or old theories.
Hey Andrew! Could you possibly make a video about getting jobs in theoretical physics? I’ve heard it’s a lot harder than experimental, which is somewhat discouraging considering I really want to go into it. Thank so much!
I'm gonna recommend a book which is for me a little gem of a book: - Quantum field theory by Srednicki. Another superb book and more pedagogic: - Gauge theories in particle physics by Hey and Aitchison.
Hey, Andrew. I'm about to complete my bachelor's degree in physics, all the "research" (come on, I'm a bachelors student) I've done up until this point has been more data oriented, I didn't need to use or really understand any complex theory. Since the start I've wanted to become a theorist myself, but it's a very tough field requiring a lot of advanced math I haven't mastered. When is a good time to start getting into it, how do I do it? It seems to have such a high barrier of entry. I don't want to keep putting it off for too long and end up writing a phd thesis where I just do a bunch of manual labor to collect data or whatever (I recently attended a presentation about one student's thesis, his work was compiling and extracting a lot of astrophotometric data, he got really favorable comments from the committee). I respect this kind of work a lot but I don't find it exciting one bit. I think this is a good video topic, have you done one of these in the past?
But thats all quantum field theory, particle physics, and so on. If you want to learn theoretical nuclear physics i can recommend Kris Heyde "Basic Ideas and concepts in Nuclear Physics". A similar book is by Greiner: Nuclear Models. A really deep text ist Ring&Schuck The nuclear many body problem and last my favorite book by Richard F Casten: Nuclear Physics from a simple perspective - a really not so easy book but full of insight.
What about Misner Thorne Wheeler? I know it has nothing to do with your research, but it will definitely come in handy when you decide to slay Papa Flammy to finally break free.
@@AndrewDotsonvideosyou mean knowledge acquisition by gravitation? Keep it near your head and let it rest alternately on your left and right shoulder...
You can actually use second quantization in lattice QCD. It's called the Kogut-Susskind Hamiltonian approach. It's more intuitive than the Wilson version in my opinion.
I just ordered the Schwartz book before watching this so this is perfect, I have a course with the exact title of the book next semester so hopefully it helps me 😅 In the meantime I've really been enjoying Zee's book to get introduced to QFT, he makes it so fun to learn :) And the book on Renormalization honestly sounds great, I've been wondering about these things 🤔
Thankyou bro! I found that white colored quantum field theory textbook on Google Play! Which means one can read a sample for free before they buy, at least. I love Google Play besides the fact they dont always have every textbook I am looking for. But they had that one!
Agreed, Python is easier than most to pick up and learn. And its versatility thanks to the amount pf packages that are on offer is insane. So yeah Python. I've also used Matlab, which is quite useful and easy to use, but its not free like Python.
Also agree, python is the way to go. R seems to be on the rise, too, but I think using R will be a lot easier when you get python, so python is a great way to start.
Pls address in how these equations were created, how do they relate to Q.physics, what particle size do these formulaes address, hows math used and how to visualize what it relates to, it seems no one talks about what is the subject in quantum physics, particle? Wtf is that particle, how big, how do formulae relate , how were they derived, howdoes integration n calculus addressthis? Was calculus created for quantjm physics? How do they see such particles 100 yrs ago? How does einstein study this? What tools he use?
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10th! So glad you’re feeling better Andrew. ~Love Mom 💕
you must be the best mom ever lol
I still can't comment earlier than you, I tried three times. Shows your love for him! you are an amazing mom!
Andrew is that you ?
Hi mom
Why do you write love mom , like aren't you able to call him or isn't he able to find you or something
Fun fact: I (along with others) helped edit the Schwartz book (QFT and Standard Model) which was converted from a set of lecture notes from a class that Schwartz taught (for which I was a TA at one point). Though I played no role in the writing (I only checked all the equations and gave minor feedback), I always feel proud when people speak highly of the book. I'm glad you enjoyed it Andrew.
That's awesome!
You're here as well the pilani dude who went to IAS.
Physics 253 at Harvard?
@@NeokingTech yes. 253a to be precise.
I love that book. One of the very few sources that speaks about direct path integral representations for the effective action and the S-matrix.
"Writing the textbook is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader"
👍👍
I love how he said “if that doesn’t make sense to you...” and then re-explained something that still did not make sense to me.
How most of my professors were when I asked them questions
Schwartz is really good! It's the only QFT book I could find that starts without the expectation that you've seen anything in QFT before.
It ages well too. I find myself always going back to it.
Am I a physics researcher? Absolutely not. Will I still be taking notes on what books he uses? Absolutely
Touché
@@RipudamanRao tushy
@@isaacmandell-seaver7223 used as an acknowledgement during a discussion of a good or clever point made at one's expense by another person.
Source:google
@@RipudamanRao Yes. Twas a joke m’dude.
@@isaacmandell-seaver7223 😅 my bad
"small stack" books be thicker than a bowl of oatmeal
bruh lemme tell ya as a physics major that you're supposed to hound physics textbooks like hounding fcking support beams lmaoooo
The life of a physicist is 5% magic, 15% latex notes, 15% illegal pdfs of textbooks, 15% bookhoarding and 50% concentrated power of pain(after renormalizing pain to be finite)
@@mikhailmikhailov8781 as an engineering student I 100% agree with that statement
@@mikhailmikhailov8781 the bookhoarding argument is too true. Also for mathematicians. Just bought two textbooks myself lmao
books be thick as tree trunk for grad students and title will be introductory
*me not understanding a single thing he's said at any point in the video*
"Ah yes, these are good books, I should get them"
Same
Hey man just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you, for sharing your journey in physics. Which inspired me to change my major from aerospace engineering to physics. stay the way you are and keep your stuff up, greetings from germany :)
Thanks a lot!
Note that there's a nice Wikipedia page called Common Integrals In Quantum Field Theory.
I also did a book preview video my books for 2021, last week.
It will be a reading year for sure, giving how we're still staying at home.
3:05 I hope that Papa Flammy will derive these on his improvised session
Glad you're no longer dying :)
Thanks for the interesting, informative vid even though I probably won't need these books for another 2+ years
"It's got a nice appendix." Smooth.
*Andrew,* you should invent your own "fundamental transformation" to bypass those obfuscated diagrams and infinities. The _Dotson's duality principle_ would make a nice Nobel acceptance speech.
Hey man, it's so important to find the books and resources! Great work!
👍❤
Hey hi man, I am studying Physics in college and I really like your videos. Keep up the good work and stay healthy.
Hey I'm a undergrad student. Mostly I find the terminologies Greek-Latin for me. But I enjoy these videos to the fullest.
you meant to say, geek-latin
Nope. Greek-latin or Latin -greek you may say. "Incomprehensible"
So glad you feeling better Andrew. Hi from South Africa by the way, I absolutely love your videos, they have been inspiring to me while I have been going through my undergrad in physics as well.
Another title 10 most brutal weapons that are banned from wars
as a math/compsci student, hearing physicists talk about integration (in 4-\eps dimensions? taking \eps=0? WHAT) is the perfect mixture of bewildering and entertaining :D
So you can make a diverging interval converge. Can't wait till I go over that in class lol
Andrew, in my Advanced Statistical Physics course we are using the renormalization to study phase transitions.
It amazes me that a concept so strange is present in two (seemingly) very different areas of physics.
Can you make a video explaining the relationship between renormalization in statistical phyics and in QFT?
They are not so different when one considers that they are about computing expectation values of operators with continuous spectra.
I actually took a course on stat mech by Nigel Goldenfeld lol
I remember learning from a plasma chemistry book by Fridman for my PhD and later find it's the quite established dad of the podcaster Lex.
@@NikolajKuntner that's crazy. Didn't know that
@@vampyricon7026 Ahhhh so jealous! He recently gave a talk at our university on turbulence and it was great.
If Physics for Dummies isn't on here, I'm going to be really scared for my promising career as a nuclear physicist
Every quantum field theory bookshelf is incomplete without "The Great Weinberg series".
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Oh, the insights Weinberg lead us couldn't find anywhere. Why we do this how it gives the results, great.
Your renormalization references are fine, it's an insane process anyway. Normally in math we get rid of the infinitely small, but with renormalization we get rid of the infinitely large. There is no actual mathematical rigor to it, but the calculated potentials match the measurements, so they work, and we get on with our day, then we have a beer. Renormalization is often the result of that ocean of energy below the proportion of h-bar omega. But since we can't interact with it anyway due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty, ww just sweep the whole mess under the rug, as if it was never there. Kadanoff's statistical dynamics book is decent, but you already have a decent intro in Pathria, Chapter 13 to the end. Unfortunately, Statistical Dynamics grad courses often end before they hit the end of Pathria. If nothing else, read through the last chapters ... this renormalization is useful to get an answer, but we always need to remember that it doesn't really represent what Mother Nature actually does, and in that abstraction of renormalization, we lose sight of the beauty of Nature. The statistical approach at least tries to look behind the curtain.
A book I would definitely recommend (Maybe not for research, especially coming from a layman rather than a researcher) is Path Integrals for Pedestrians. They present, among other things, a path integral derivation of Wigner functions along with a dirty little scheme for hopping between a quantum path integral and a classical path integral with geometric quantization. It was very interesting to watch it come together throughout the book.
So happy you are good man! BTW I have watched a lot of your videos recently. Your channel made me return to theoretical physics. And this video is just extremely helpful
Know you through your memes video but I don’t know you’re a nuclear physicist too! The books you recommended are really good and I even own the first one! That book is really popular among graduate physics students even here in Japan. Glad to hear that you recovered and take care!
cool stuff! 6:30 would love to see some examples on what you mean by "removing infinities"
MY GUY ANDREW! Love seeing your videos pop up in my subscription feed, keep up the awesome work in your research! Please upload more too :))
My advisor made we study renormalization using the book: "Renormalization Methods. A Guide for Beginners" by W. D. McComb. Excelent book but focus more in statistical mechanics
I’ll begin my first undergrad physics semester in 2 days. I hope I will be there one day:)
Good to hear you're feeling better! The textbook videos are fantastic.
Concerning renormalization, there are also the following books:
Renormalization, an Introduction, by Salmhofer.
Renormalization Methods, a Guide for Beginners, by McComb.
See also the lecture notes about Renormalization in QFT by Sunil Mukhi.
Hey I want to join Ph.D program in Astronomy at NMSU.
I have submitted my application.
I really wanna meet you (if I got admit).
See you in Aug 2021. Hopefully. 😊😊
Best luck buddy 👍 btw where did you get your masters
All the best man
@@kk-qb3cj I have completed my Bachelor from Nepal. I have directly applied to PhD program after Bachelor degree.
Best of luck!
@@AndrewDotsonvideos Thanks man.
Dr Dotson so glad to have you back
Great things are headed your way Andrew! Keep it up!
Thanks!
He’s becoming a lumberjack
Glad You're Feeling better!
I found QFT - An Integrated Approach by Eduardo Fradkin also a good introduction to UGs.
Princeton university press-2021.
Yes, very clear, Integrated approach as the title says & also between the chapters.
Andrew good to see you back bro 😀👍👍👍👍
I like to read the books even though i dont know how to calculate most of it, but i still learn things from it😅
When sending me to resources for a final project, the head of my department recommended Kleinert's Particles and Quantum Fields, which, if you had the physical copy, would be the thickest boi of the stack. Definitely a great resource, at least as far as my limited use of it
Me: I will take a break from this physics assignment
YT: Wanna watch what textbooks do researchers use?
I always found Ramond's Field Theory book way more elegant and in-depth than Peskin & Schroeder, but it's true that its status as being the standard textbook and the fact it's so comprehensive is probably what still keeps it up. I gotta check Schwartz's book for sure, though.
Love the videos Andrew!
I started with Peskin and Schroeder as a starting point for QFT in my undergrad but got stuck just after ϕ^4 theory
. After quartic interactions, the learning curve is very steep. I quickly moved to other references. And I would never advise anyone else to start with this one.
Finally someone call me smart :)
Finally! I've been looking for some good books for ages. Thanks Andrew and keep that good work up! ^^
Derivation is left to the reader as an exercise
also make a video on books you used for learning physics.
Happy to know you are okay.
I’m a cosmologist but still watching for fun. In my research I probably reference Galactic Dynamics by Binney and Tremaine and Galaxy formation and evolution by Mo, Bosch, and White the most. Galactic Dynamics is super dense and mathematically heavy, to the point it seems more like a post-graduate level book but I’m still trying to get the hang of it. I would describe Galactic dynamics as Jackson E&M applied to gravitational fields (since the math and techniques are very similar) coupled with statistical mechanics ideas in describing particles using macroscopic ideas found in star mech (basically thinking of a system like a collection of stars or even galaxies obeying the same statistical laws and relations that microscopic gas particles do). Diffusive properties + potential theory = dynamics.
MBW is pretty much the Bible of extragalactic astrophysics, and is by far my favorite cosmology textbook but it is also extremely dense and mathematically heavy. Rather than dynamics it focuses on applying full GR equations to the universe, and analyzing what pops out again using statistical mechanics principles, actual statistical methods (quantifying clustering of galaxies or even galaxy clusters is effectively just their variance in 3D space), and fluid dynamics (pretty much everything in cosmology obeys a coupling of separate GR and fluid equations).
The big bang theory has been debunked .
Time to get working, “cosmologist”
Glad your feeling better! Missed the uploads!
Taking my first course in E&M (the University physics edition) and experimental physics (yuck), these videos give me hope that the future will be better
Sending some love for Schwartz's book! Other very interesting mentions that I personally found, and still find, very useful are Weinberg's books (even if the notation is terrible), Zinn-Justin QFT and Critical Phenomena and, last but not least, Coleman's Aspects of Symmetry which contains various advanced QFT topics presented in a very Coleman way, which is a very good thing
Not in QFT (or Physics per se) but I think I need to know both the path integral and second order quantisation formalisms, just because the former is where calculations for free energy come from, and the latter I figure I need to understand Kadanoff renormalisations (so I can understand stochastic processes).
So glad to see you again bro.
Whenever I see a complex-looking maths equation, it just fascinates me to want to learn enough about it to be able to decipher what it means. Like that integral in the video.
Good to know you're better now.
hey i saw my favourite book on the thumbnail! best explanation on spinor field I could find.
oh man i'm glad you're feeling better :D
I haven’t read the last one on renormalization but read the first three. Schwartz is very good unless you read the chapter about path integrals. After reading this chapter path integral remains just a fancy sign. Showing how it works in quantum mechanics and then “by analogy” adopting it to field theory is NOT enough.
Very few books really dig into this. My personal favourite is Itzykson Zuber “QFT”, it really explains what is going on.
Hi I do thank you very much, I will look for a more down to earth ie easier book but you have done a great job for me.
Can you make a video about books for outside reading (not textbooks)? I recently attended a Neutrino Workshop during my winter break (4 sessions) and my professor recommended to us several challenging and difficult books for outside reading (The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg, Black Holes, Quasars, and the Universe by Harry Shipman, Frozen Star by George Greenstein, and Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne). I'm particularly interested in astrophysics and particle/nuclear/atomic physics books. Or, if anyone wishes to reply to me with some recommendations, I will be sure to check them out! In case you were wondering, I'm a sophomore who is majoring in Astronomy and Astrophysics, just so you know the level that I'm at.
One question which is pretty straight forward
Does a charge constituent CONTINUOUSLY OR REGULARLY emitting VIRTUAL photons or only when any other charge comes into its range..
so, when will we see a preprint on the arxiv? I'm curious about these D-terms!
I’d love to hear your thoughts Andrew about the book titled “ quantum field theory for the gifted amateur “ , looking forward for more of your videos.
Peace ✌️
QCD: Renormalization for the Practitioner by Pasqual and Tarrach is a good book for renormalization. It is quite old but very useful imo
I Like Weinberg! I will be a condensed matter theorist. I am new to QFT since I took QFT I just last semester and I am taking the second one this semester. But, I like Weinberg!
When i first got introduced in QFT I read QFT in a nutshell which gives a nice introduction into the ideas of QFT.
@Andrew Are there different types of theoretical physicists other than the differences between the areas they study? Andrew, it seems your current research is very specific? Is this due to the nature of theoretical nuclear physics or your choice to research very specific topics? I understood that theoretical physicists derive new equations from previously known ones and based on new or old theories.
Hey Andrew! Could you possibly make a video about getting jobs in theoretical physics? I’ve heard it’s a lot harder than experimental, which is somewhat discouraging considering I really want to go into it. Thank so much!
After looking at dozens of books on QFT, I discovered the book by Schwartz. It truly is the definitive book to study QFT from.
I'm gonna recommend a book which is for me a little gem of a book:
- Quantum field theory by Srednicki.
Another superb book and more pedagogic:
- Gauge theories in particle physics by Hey and Aitchison.
Hey, Andrew.
I'm about to complete my bachelor's degree in physics, all the "research" (come on, I'm a bachelors student) I've done up until this point has been more data oriented, I didn't need to use or really understand any complex theory. Since the start I've wanted to become a theorist myself, but it's a very tough field requiring a lot of advanced math I haven't mastered. When is a good time to start getting into it, how do I do it? It seems to have such a high barrier of entry. I don't want to keep putting it off for too long and end up writing a phd thesis where I just do a bunch of manual labor to collect data or whatever (I recently attended a presentation about one student's thesis, his work was compiling and extracting a lot of astrophotometric data, he got really favorable comments from the committee). I respect this kind of work a lot but I don't find it exciting one bit.
I think this is a good video topic, have you done one of these in the past?
But thats all quantum field theory, particle physics, and so on. If you want to learn theoretical nuclear physics i can recommend Kris Heyde "Basic Ideas and concepts in Nuclear Physics". A similar book is by Greiner: Nuclear Models. A really deep text ist Ring&Schuck The nuclear many body problem and last my favorite book by Richard F Casten: Nuclear Physics from a simple perspective - a really not so easy book but full of insight.
What about Misner Thorne Wheeler? I know it has nothing to do with your research, but it will definitely come in handy when you decide to slay Papa Flammy to finally break free.
My advisor says you can learn a lot about gravity by just carrying that book around since it's so big
@@AndrewDotsonvideosyou mean knowledge acquisition by gravitation? Keep it near your head and let it rest alternately on your left and right shoulder...
You can actually use second quantization in lattice QCD. It's called the Kogut-Susskind Hamiltonian approach. It's more intuitive than the Wilson version in my opinion.
Oh interesting, I'm not familiar with that formalism but I'll have to check it out!
I just ordered the Schwartz book before watching this so this is perfect, I have a course with the exact title of the book next semester so hopefully it helps me 😅 In the meantime I've really been enjoying Zee's book to get introduced to QFT, he makes it so fun to learn :) And the book on Renormalization honestly sounds great, I've been wondering about these things 🤔
Good choice! I have Zee's book on group theory, though I haven't really gone through much of it yet.
Thankyou bro! I found that white colored quantum field theory textbook on Google Play! Which means one can read a sample for free before they buy, at least. I love Google Play besides the fact they dont always have every textbook I am looking for. But they had that one!
Man
I just wanted to ask for books in nuclear physics .
I got kenneth krane intro to nuclear physics
He just scared the undergraduate out of me
Is it essential to be good in programming to get into theoritical physics PhD? If yes then which language one should choice as a bigginer ?
Sorta, not really; python
@@grahamspellman2442 I completely agree with this answer, haha.
Agreed, Python is easier than most to pick up and learn. And its versatility thanks to the amount pf packages that are on offer is insane. So yeah Python. I've also used Matlab, which is quite useful and easy to use, but its not free like Python.
Also agree, python is the way to go. R seems to be on the rise, too, but I think using R will be a lot easier when you get python, so python is a great way to start.
@@Wolkenphoenix R is mostly for stats and pretty much useless for other purposes
1:06 2021 motto . Make things easy so tha you can ...look them up
Going through schwartz in qft right now!
Thank you
Intro to quantum field theory
A course in field theory
Quantum field theory and the standard model
Renormalization
Quarks & leptons
I'm an electronics engineer but your videos make me want to major in Physics
Sir i wanted to do project on Feynman diagram..for my MSc project work..can you suggest..some idea..
The feeling when you realise you forgot most of the stuff you have learned in a course you aced 😒😔
i'm still in class 10 what am i doing here
I had no clue you had covid. Glad you're better man.
What u wanna do after studies theoretical nuclear physics doesn’t really sound applicable and futureproof
It's not. It's an old theory with no future. I think he knows it and that's why the attempt at becoming internet celebrity.
i talked to u on osrs the other day xd. I'm glad u are feeling better.
Thanks a lot! See you on there next time
'Quarks and Leptons' the only one I read, too. And now, Halzen is a college of mine :D
That's really cool! Such a great book
What books do you recomand for QFT on curved space time?
No idea
@@AndrewDotsonvideos thats what my profesor says. At my PhD, cries in romanian educational system
Quantum Fields in curved space by Birrell and Davies is pretty standard, albeit perhaps a bit dated.
Pls address in how these equations were created, how do they relate to Q.physics, what particle size do these formulaes address, hows math used and how to visualize what it relates to, it seems no one talks about what is the subject in quantum physics, particle? Wtf is that particle, how big, how do formulae relate , how were they derived, howdoes integration n calculus addressthis? Was calculus created for quantjm physics? How do they see such particles 100 yrs ago? How does einstein study this? What tools he use?
How do you know who to trust if you have a BIG research hypothesis?
There is a very good book about renormlization, its written by Dr. Andrew Dotson i highly recommend it
Hey Andrew, thanks for the great video! Could you please do a video on the method of image charges? It's quite confusing for me :)