Re: Best Undergrad Physics Textbooks for an Undergrad


On recommendation by srp, I got Halliday and Resnick Physics II
which focuses on electromagnetism. It's important to get
the older Third Edition and not the latest Fifth Edition because
they remove about 100 pages in the latter eliminating many
derivations which dumb it down quite a bit. I was able to scout
the older edition at a 2nd hand bookshop.

Other great undergrad book is Griffith's "Introduction to
Elementary Physics" which make you familiar with the Dirac
equation, Gauge Theories, Symmetries, QCD, etc. I was
overwhelmed by its hard math and decided to spend the rest of the
year on purely mathematical books, so would appreciate
any books on such category (vector calculus, matrix, tensors, etc.).

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