We’ll Take Fluffy
Title: “The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics”
Authors: Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky
Rank: 44
Blurb: “A book for anyone who has ever regretted not taking physics in college.”
Review: “NOT a ‘popular’ physics book with a bunch of fluffy, non substantial speculation about membranes, strings, fractals, superpositioned states and multiple universes! Has real, tough, solid content with a LOT of advanced formulas, including tensors and many partial derivatives… There also is an appendix on Central Forces and Planetary Orbits and ‘math interludes’ on Trig, Vectors, Integrals and PDE’s.”
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Footnote: Now that you mention it, we’ve never regretted not taking physics in college.
The Theoretical Minimum [Amazon]
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Flunking linear algebra persuaded me I’d never cut it in math/science. Of course, the 8:30 class time didn’t help.
My punishment was a career that largely consisted of explaining law to scientists and science to lawyers.