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Title: New textbooks
Post by: PmbPhy on 24/05/2020 19:55:38
There are two great new textbooks out that I decided to buy. They are

Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics by Kip S. Thorne and Roger D. Blandford,   (2017)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691159025/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and

Relativistic Classical Mechanics and Electrodynamics by Martin Land and Lawrence P. Horwitz (2020)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1681737086/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The prices aren't that bad either. Each seems great for learning relativity.
Title: Re: New test books
Post by: Bored chemist on 24/05/2020 20:04:19
Did you also buy a dictionary, by any chance?
"New test books"
Title: Re: New textbooks
Post by: PmbPhy on 24/05/2020 22:59:39
Did you also buy a dictionary, by any chance?
"New test books"
It's responses like this that make  me block your posts.. I thought that this time you might have something constructive to say but I see I was wrong, you're merely sarcastic, which is the lowest form of humor.
Title: Re: New textbooks
Post by: Bored chemist on 24/05/2020 23:52:30
I thought that this time you might have something constructive to say
Science usually considers it to be constructive to correct an error.
It seems you don't...
Title: Re: New textbooks
Post by: PmbPhy on 25/05/2020 23:21:30
These textbooks are available online. See

Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics by Kip S. Thorne and Roger D. Blandford,  (2017)
https://b-ok.cc/book/3638821/d31774

and

Relativistic Classical Mechanics and Electrodynamics by Martin Land and Lawrence P. Horwitz (2020)
https://b-ok.cc/book/5521840/1e1f6c
Title: Re: New textbooks
Post by: PmbPhy on 26/05/2020 22:20:06
My copy of Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics just came. Wow, it sure is a thick book. It's over 1500 pages long and about 5 cm thick! Nice book so far. It covers a lot of subjects, too.