Relatività ristretta e teoria classica dei campi. Il minimo indispensabile per fare della (buona) fisica

I ate this up like candy. Which probably isn't the best way to approach it! What I mean is, I really enjoyed reading this. And I felt like I understood almost every step along the way. But I didn't stop and do the exercises. For real understanding, one simply must do the math. It is like the differe Leggi tutto

I like the idea of the theoretical minimum books; they are something more than popularizations, something less than textbooks, and promise to teach the math necessary for a real understanding of the science as it is needed. This is the third book; it follows directly on what was presented in the fir Leggi tutto

This is the third book in a series explaining physics to people who are not afraid of a few equations. The first, The Theoretical Minimum, covered so-called classical physics, and was absolutely brilliant. It deservedly became a best seller. The second, on quantum mechanics, was nowhere near as succ Leggi tutto

Last term, I took an Introduction to Theoretical Physics course whose syllabus ranged from classical mechanics to classical field theory, relativity and cosmology. The part that frustrated me the most was classical field theory because it was completely foreign to me, and its new notations didn't he Leggi tutto

This book saved my ass <333

Most texts on electromagnetism start out historically, i.e., teaching you the experimentally derived Coulomb's law, Ampere-Maxwell law, Gauss' law etc. Then they proceed to the Maxwell equations, and then they talk about how to solve the equations in different (manually solvable) situations. Then th Leggi tutto

With the third installment of The Theoretical Minimum, it seems that Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman have found their respective stride. This book covers Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory as the title suggests, and as the context of the series suggests it covers the subjects in an enga Leggi tutto