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No mention of the most famous Russian book among Indian high Schoolers: [Problems in General Physics by I E Irodov](https://www.amazon.com/Problems-General-Phys

No mention of the most famous Russian book among Indian high Schoolers: [Problems in General Physics by I E Irodov](https://www.amazon.com/Problems-General-Physics-I-Irodov/dp/8183552153 https://www.amazon.com/Problems-General-Physics-I-Irodov/dp/...)?

kobiguru 8y ago
I have spent so much time with this book growing up. It was THE Book to solve to get the bragging rights that you know your physics.
- rahulun 8y ago
  Ah I still ‘see’ the tiny fonts when I think about the book..
- yantrams 8y ago
  For REAL bragging rights, you had to solve Krotov :)
  - raybon 8y ago
    Bukhantsov was the real deal. Higher than Krotov
    - yantrams 8y ago
      Never heard of it. Will check it out. Thank you! PS: One of the highest points during my college prep days was when I managed to solve this kinematics problem from Krotov where the condition for a ball bouncing in a well to get out depends on the ratio of some parameters to be co prime. Good times.
signa11 8y ago
don't forget i.a. maron for calculus :)
rraghur 8y ago
Heh! Irodov problems were dope... Spend multiple days putting over the same problem and the exhilaration when you finally crack it! Still brings back memories
krat0sprakhar 8y ago
Haha, this brings back memories! Spent so much time slouching over this book and taking a crack at the problems. Thanks for comment and triggering a trip down the memory lane :)
pankajk1 8y ago
There was a Mir Publishers bookshop close to my college in Patna and I would make regular visits in hope of landing gems like IE Irodov. Alas, most other Science books were so so and nowhere near their American counterparts (Halliday Resnick for Physics, Morrison Boyd for Chemistry comes to mind).
- billfruit 8y ago
  The Soviets did have the Landau book for physics, though I do not know if it was made available in India. I should put a word for an Indian publishing house named Narosa which put out cheap editions of text books(mostly western) like the Feynman Lectures, Fermi's Thermodynamics, etc.
  - yantrams 8y ago
    Landsberg's series on Elementary Physics[0] would be a more appropriate counterpart to Resnick & Halliday etc, targeted towards those preparing for university exams. Narosa has a great collection indeed. 0 - https://archive.org/details/LandsbergElementaryTextbookOnPhysicsVol1Mir1988 https://archive.org/details/LandsbergElementaryTextbookOnPhy...
  - vram22 8y ago
    Yes, I've bought computer books from Narosa and they were good. I think they had tie-ups with western publishing houses like Springer-Verlag, etc.

kobiguru 8y ago

I have spent so much time with this book growing up. It was THE Book to solve to get the bragging rights that you know your physics.

rahulun 8y ago
Ah I still ‘see’ the tiny fonts when I think about the book..
yantrams 8y ago
For REAL bragging rights, you had to solve Krotov :)
- raybon 8y ago
  Bukhantsov was the real deal. Higher than Krotov
  - yantrams 8y ago
    Never heard of it. Will check it out. Thank you! PS: One of the highest points during my college prep days was when I managed to solve this kinematics problem from Krotov where the condition for a ball bouncing in a well to get out depends on the ratio of some parameters to be co prime. Good times.

signa11 8y ago

don't forget i.a. maron for calculus :)

rraghur 8y ago

Heh! Irodov problems were dope... Spend multiple days putting over the same problem and the exhilaration when you finally crack it! Still brings back memories

krat0sprakhar 8y ago

Haha, this brings back memories! Spent so much time slouching over this book and taking a crack at the problems. Thanks for comment and triggering a trip down the memory lane :)

pankajk1 8y ago

There was a Mir Publishers bookshop close to my college in Patna and I would make regular visits in hope of landing gems like IE Irodov. Alas, most other Science books were so so and nowhere near their American counterparts (Halliday Resnick for Physics, Morrison Boyd for Chemistry comes to mind).

billfruit 8y ago
The Soviets did have the Landau book for physics, though I do not know if it was made available in India. I should put a word for an Indian publishing house named Narosa which put out cheap editions of text books(mostly western) like the Feynman Lectures, Fermi's Thermodynamics, etc.
- yantrams 8y ago
  Landsberg's series on Elementary Physics[0] would be a more appropriate counterpart to Resnick & Halliday etc, targeted towards those preparing for university exams. Narosa has a great collection indeed. 0 - https://archive.org/details/LandsbergElementaryTextbookOnPhysicsVol1Mir1988 https://archive.org/details/LandsbergElementaryTextbookOnPhy...
- vram22 8y ago
  Yes, I've bought computer books from Narosa and they were good. I think they had tie-ups with western publishing houses like Springer-Verlag, etc.