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This book is fantastic! It's Spivak so it doesn't sacrifice prose for precision, and it does more than teach physics from a mathematical point of view. It also
by danharaj 9y ago
This book is fantastic! It's Spivak so it doesn't sacrifice prose for precision, and it does more than teach physics from a mathematical point of view. It also illustrates the massive gap between theoretical physics and experimental physics-- why physics is so hard. An early example in the book is trying to calculate the way a chain hanging off an edge falls: Several pages of investigation reveal how devilishly hard it is to apply the theory to a particular problem-- even demonstrating that a popular physics book gets the problem wrong and the best guide for how to analyze it correctly is experiment.
I hope there's a sequel!