What Physics Textbooks Should You Buy?

The books recommended in this video are:

Griffiths Quantum Mechanics

Griffiths Electrodynamics

Taylor Classical Mechanics

An "Okay" book for Thermo/Statmech is
Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory and Statistical Thermodynamics By sears-salinger

Links:

song intro:

[DarioBalmaceda]

I am a simple man, I see Griffiths, I press like

[paolojosemarizafra]

I'm an electrical engineer and I must say that griffiths book for electrodynamics is simply the best in explaining generally abstract concepts of electricity and magnetism. Infinite likes for the book!

[rayamancheva]

For Statistical Mechanics I recommend: Concepts in Thermal Physics by Blundell and Blundell

[justinchampagne]

A thermodynamics book I HIGHLY recommend is "An Introduction to Thermal Physics" by Schroeder. It feels more like you're going on a journey through the logic and physics of thermo and stat mech as opposed to having all the information thrown at you. The writing is very clear and engaging, and the problems are fascinating and focus on concept as well as math.

[willhenrygates]

JUST IN CASE I can’t solve it myself? As if I can solve anything myself in physics.

[geofisue]

Griffiths, Cohen for Quantum, Goldstein for Theorical mechanics, D'Inverno for General Relativity, Stull for Meteorology, Huang for Statistical physics. Landau could be okay also. There are more but I don't remember them now.

[crgnprv]

This is kind of a trip to watch in 2020. Definitely was made before you videos had as much personality as they do now.

[DHood]

Hey! I've been studying down the road at VCU and I totally agree about Griffiths E&M. I had to find it on my own and it saved me. Also, as an introduction to Quantum we used Quantum Physics by Cameron Reed, which I think is a bit light in terms of difficulty but great for someone coming from Modern Physics and wanting to explore quantum. Really liking the videos, cheers!

[System.Error.]

In S. Korea, most of the Classical Dynamics textbook would be Marion or Fowles; some higher level universities use Goldstein. (In fact, these universities use whatever they want as a supplementary textbook, such as Landau, Feynman's lecture on physics, and more)
P.S. Using Griffith is a universal rule in physics for an undergrad who learns Classical Electrodynamics for the first time. It's an established statement.

[KenWangpiano]

I'm not really fond of Griffiths QM, although his EM book Is spectacular. I think his QM book is too handwavy and not mathematically rigorous for my liking, on that account, I prefer Townsend's QM. Still not a bad book though.

[manofculture]

UNDERGRAD:

-Classical Mechanics: Goldstein
-Electromagnetism: Griffiths
-Quantum Mechanics: Cohen-Tannoudji
-Termodynamics: I used Zemansky, don't recommend it though
-Statistical Mechanics: I don't have a good option here

GRAD:

-Classical Electrodynamics: Jackson
-Quantum Mechanics: Sakurai / Shankar
-Statistical Mechanics: Huang / Pathria

[cea]

CM: Goldstein
EM: Griffiths
QM: Shankar or Sakurai & Napolitano
Thermo & SM: Kardar or Pathria
Math. Methods: just do a minor / double major in physics

If you don't want to spend money on textbooks, I felt that the freely available lecture notes by David Tong are some of the best for almost every field.

[duncanw]

Halliday-Resnick for calc-based elementary classical mechanics

[chengzejiang]

Marion for classical mechanics, Zangwill for electrodynamics, Carter for thermodynamics, Shankar for quantum mechanics (All of the above are recommended for undergrad. level). Though Zangwill maybe a little hard core in its mathematics for undergrad level, but I love the way he combine the meaning of mathematics and physics, for me, it is one of the best textbook for electrodynamics (except for the notation convention for special relativity). For Griffiths books in the video, I thought they omit too much mathematical detail to have me understand the physics content in it (for me, everything should start from postulate and carefully derived by mathematics).

[anupamjain]

For statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, Friedrich Reif is a great book. It builds everything from scratch that helps you understand better.

[kajalumrethwala]

Why no one is talking about quantum mechanics concepts and applications by nourdine zetilli

[EvilStalkerBE]

I'd recommend Morin for Classical Mechanics; Binney and Skinner for QM.

[a.f.mashrafi]

Wow that's nostalgic.. I first watched this video when I was in 11th grade and now I'm a 2nd year undergrad physics major.

[charlesspringer]

A shortcoming of Griffith's E&M, if you can call it that, is the clever construction of the problems. Literally all of them can be solved without putting down the book and taking pencil to paper. This is also a very good confidence builder.

[AdityaKumar-ijok]

0:45 i really agree on the videos on multi variable calculus