🧵 University Physics vs The Feynman Lectures
Anonymous at Wed, 1 May 2024 18:57:49 UTC No. 16155162
Which one is the best textbook to learn physics from as a beginner?
Anonymous at Wed, 1 May 2024 19:07:21 UTC No. 16155165
>>16155162
Pearson provides you with a good introduction that mostly focuses on mechanics and electromagnetism but pays very little attention to more advanced topics rather than briefly presenting them. They also omit methods used in physics that rely on mathematics more complex than the introductory courses you usually take in the first two years.
Feynman, you can find here:
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech
Anonymous at Wed, 1 May 2024 19:07:25 UTC No. 16155166
>>16155162
Savelyev
Anonymous at Wed, 1 May 2024 19:16:21 UTC No. 16155171
>>16155165
I ain’t poor, I’ll buy them on Amazon.
>>16155166
Never heard of that one, must be awful.
Anonymous at Wed, 1 May 2024 22:04:12 UTC No. 16155416
Feynman is gay shit, loads of filler nonsense and tangential "nerd joke". I'd prefer book with derivations and problems
Anonymous at Thu, 2 May 2024 12:04:41 UTC No. 16156341
Feynman, definitely
Anonymous at Thu, 2 May 2024 13:54:49 UTC No. 16156442
>>16155162
Feynman is only good after you've already learned the subject. I think University Physics is good. You don't need to spend too much time on it before you learn classical mechanics from Taylor, followed by quantum mechanics from Mcintyre and electromagnetism from Griffiths.
It's actually most important that you learn calculus and linear algebra. I liked Spivak's proof based calculus books but honestly you only really need Stewart's calculus for physics. On the other hand I highly recommend learning linear algebra with proofs from Axler or Friedberg, this will help you with quantum mechanics.
Anonymous at Thu, 2 May 2024 19:12:35 UTC No. 16156803
>>16155162
>as a beginner
Hewitt
Anonymous at Fri, 3 May 2024 00:15:04 UTC No. 16157099
FUP by Alonso & Finn
Anonymous at Fri, 3 May 2024 00:18:59 UTC No. 16157106
>>16156442
thanks for the advice friend! the Axler book looks amazing, it makes concepts like vector spaces seem so simple!!!
Anonymous at Fri, 3 May 2024 02:15:12 UTC No. 16157194
University physics. Anything by Feynman should be looked at with a lens of suspicion
Anonymous at Fri, 3 May 2024 05:34:42 UTC No. 16157374
>>16155162
Feynman is bad for an introduction for physics. He attempts to provide a conceptual understanding of physics, but without a skeletal idea of physics to begin with, you aren't able to follow him as he often omits essential details to actually use the methods. Read a physics introductory textbook, do the problems, and then read the Feynman lectures to fill in some gaps.
Anonymous at Fri, 3 May 2024 06:46:04 UTC No. 16157411
university physics. feynman gives too much too quick and often just gives useless derivations that are debatable like those conserning electrodynamics.