My Favourite Textbooks for Studying Physics and Astrophysics

In this video, I show 5 textbooks that I've found particularly useful for studying physics and astrophysics at university. If you're a student who's currently studying or thinking of studying physics, then these textbooks will help you get ahead of the game.

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[nandikdas]

Thank you brother! Just starting my college life and these will surely pave my way !! ❤

[douglasstrother]

"Methods of Theoretical Physics. Parts 1 & 2" 1953 ~ Morse & Feshbach
is the Heavy Artillery of Mathematical Physics!
Well-written and covers a mountain of information in a well-organized manner.
I used this as a reference rather than a textbook; if you need something beyond the scope of the usual topics covered in a Math Methods course, go here.

[douglasstrother]

"Electromagnetic Fields and Waves" by Lorrain & Corson (2nd Edition) contains two problems relating Electrodynamics and Cosmology. Problem 4-22 starts with: "In 1959 Lyttelton and Bondi [Proc. Roy. Soc. (London) A, vol. 232, p.313] suggested that the expansion of the Universe could be explained on the basis of Newtonian Mechanics if matter contained a [tiny] net electric charge."

A follow-on problem, Problem 10-11, mentions that correction terms to curlB and divE due to the creation of this charge should be on the order of R^-2 where R is on the order of the radius of the Universe, so that the new terms would be negligible at all length scales but cosmological situations. This hypothesis is consistent with the linear velocity-distance observations.

Rather thought-provoking questions from an Undergraduate E&M textbook!

[Kenneth-Correa]

Every Feynman lectures to inspire a general view of the world

[puzzLEGO]

came from r/youtubers, blown away by the quality of this video!
there's literally nothing I can add or suggest, if you keep uploading this content you'll grow in no time

[douglasstrother]

The oldest textbook that I have as the original owner is "Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory and Statistical Thermodynamics" (2nd edition) by Sears & Salinger from Fall 1982.
(We've both held up pretty well!)

[smartsogir]

Hello dear,
I'm not a physics student but i had completed engineering in electronics.
I had discovered my imagination skills in astrophysics and quantum mechanics before 5 to 6 years, I'm learning many concepts from past few years by myself and finally on the point where I want to right a hypothesis/theoretical paper. I knw the concepts but when I start reading the research paper i found that my mathematical concepts are really weak. And before some days I found the book for mathematical methods but till the date I didn't buy it. Now I knew the astrophysics students also reading it means I can also start from it. Thank you!

[pc_phage]

I had the 1966 edition for my 1967 freshman year at University of Massachusetts Boston. It was in a converted office building at the time.

[kellyhighmore]

Thank you this video was truly helpful

[UnconventionalReasoning]

Lewis has probably graduated, so this is more for others: it is more effective to understand physics by spending more time studying the material in each chapter than doing a bunch of problems. Doing problems gives a false sense of understanding, and often hurts the learning process by making different questions seem disjointed when they're really connected.

[FernandoGarcia-izni]

What astrophysics books in Spanish do you recommend? As far as possible, they are deep and give me a great glimpse of what astrophysics is. Although I have not even finished my secondary studies, I was lucky enough to read aliens by Avi loeb and I would like to know, learn and discover more about the subject.

[douglasstrother]

I used the steam-powered edition of Halliday & Resnick as an Undergrad.

[charlesspringer]

In my youth, Holiday and Resnick was a two volume hardback or one really thcnk book.

[pc_phage]

Mathematical Methods by K. Riley also has a solution manual.

[addy]

Why is it nobody recommends mathematical methods in physics by Mary L boas... I believe it is the best mathematical physics book out there..Its perfect for undergrad...Thanks for the other recommendations though.

[CrazyShores]

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[saqlain]

My thermodynamics was weak in class 11 ;( does that book have basics?

[Naman...]

Thank u so much but can u give some advice which book should i follow for astrophysics from starting

[hoangdrake]

I wanna ask you about whether these books are suitable for high school students

[varunv]

Is it possible to study undergraduate Physics alone without going to any university?

Don't professors give exam papers and homework questions from questions found already in textbooks?

Are lectures the same as reading textbooks?