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On the topic of free introductory physics books, Landau's Course of Theoretical Physics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics https://en.
by htns 12y ago
On the topic of free introductory physics books, Landau's Course of Theoretical Physics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics) is available on archive.org, since the earliest editions are out of copyright by now: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22L.D.+Landau+%26+E.M.+Lifshitz%22 https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22L.D.+Landa...
- randommoonwalk 12y agoI don't think they're introductory books - the Lagrangian is introduced on the second page! Perhaps for a mathematically sophisticated reader?
- pedrosorio 12y agoDepends on your definitions of "introductory" and "mathematically sophisticated reader". In the university I attended, the first physics course (Mechanics & Optics) introduced the concept of Lagrangian fairly early.
- spott 12y agoThese don't fall under "introductory" in any sense of the word. These are hard graduate level books.
- htns 12y agoThey are introductory in the sense that they are more about the horizontal bar of the T than about going in depth in a particular topic. But I guess I have to admit it was a poor choice of words.
- amit_m 12y agoIndeed, anyone who can seriously grok all the material in the entire series will gain a very deep and wide understanding of theoretical physics that very few people possess.