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Ask HN: Great resources for university calculus/physics?
Hello HN
Soon me and a lot of students will be starting collage/university, so I figured this would be a good time for this question. Personally my high school teachers were not really good, and I want to fully understand the math and physics courses I will be taking for my engineering degree.
So what are you recommendations, what books or resources helped you? I'm sure this will be a great help to current undergraduate students and to anyone wanting to get into engineering.
Thanks :D
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- Jugurtha 3y ago- "Differential and Integral Calculus", Piskunov. - "A Course of Higher Mathematics", Smirnov. This one could be a bit expensive, but if you find yourself in a country that has had good relations with the former Soviet Union, you might find it a a really affordable price because they had licenses to print these books, and generally speaking, the MIR Publishers, Moscow, books. - "Problems in Mathematical Analysis", Demidovich. - "Course of Theoretical Physics", Landau. - "Problems in General Physics", Irodov. You'll note that there are "course" books and "problem" books in there. All the best,
- Utkarsh_Mood 3y agoWould add "Aptitude Test Problems in Physics",S. S.Krotov. It is tougher than Irodov but definitely improves upon your skill in think about hard problems
- Utkarsh_Mood 3y ago*in thinking
- k310 3y agoReading material ahead of taking a course is a strategy I used to help shorten the learning curve; 1. So you want to learn physics ( https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics ) The books recommended all look expensive, so not for dabbling. 2. A quick search turned up a bunch of free resources that look helpful: LibreTexts ( https://libretexts.org https://libretexts.org ) OpenStax ( https://openstax.org/subjects https://openstax.org/subjects ) Rice University InfoBooks ( https://www.infobooks.org/free-pdf-books/physics/ https://www.infobooks.org/free-pdf-books/physics/ ) 50+ Physics Books College Phsyics ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/61 https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/61 ) -- University Physics Volume 1 ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/378 https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/378 )-- both part of Open Textbook Library/ University of Minnesota’ ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ ) Free Physics Textbooks at Open Culture ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ ) Introductory Physics I Elementary Mechanics ( https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Class/intro_physics_1/intro_physics_1.pdf https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Class/intro_physics_1/intr... ) Duke Free Math Texts ( http://www.freemathtexts.org http://www.freemathtexts.org ) Mathematics for Physics ( https://goldbart.gatech.edu/PostScript/MS_PG_book/bookmaster.pdf https://goldbart.gatech.edu/PostScript/MS_PG_book/bookmaster... ) 3. Even engineers need to communicate well. Editor's Manual ( https://editorsmanual.com https://editorsmanual.com ), including https://editorsmanual.com/articles/i-or-me/ https://editorsmanual.com/articles/i-or-me/ I or me. Elements of Style https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/StrunkWhite.pdf https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/... https://ia804502.us.archive.org/5/items/pdfy-2_qp8jQ61OI6NHwa/Strunk%20%26%20White%20-%20The%20Elements%20of%20Style%2C%204th%20Edition.pdf https://ia804502.us.archive.org/5/items/pdfy-2_qp8jQ61OI6NHw... (4th edition)