Advanced University Physics

Rating:
Summary: A strong bridge to cross upon
Review: I work in an industrial chemical research laboratory. I have little formal education, most of what I "know" I have taught myself. I know a little physics, and I've taught myself a little calculus. So why this physics book? Sometimes the introductory is too hard trying to be simple, and sometime the hard is really just the simple with more mathematics, also, the Feynman Lectures do not cover it all!
If you learn because you are curious and ask a lot of questions and are very stubborn and patient to make up for not being very smart, then you are like me, you will find, with efforts, this book to be a wonderful way to bridge the introductory.
I have a couple patents, and in each case I have used a little physics intuition and a collection of wonderful books. When I get an idea I look ahead to get a general feeling for the problem that I wish to solve. This book I have used to look ahead. Next, I go back to the basic college level text books and even more basic if necessary, and then move forward narrowing the questions and looking to solved problems and math text books to get the required background to forward an idea. I have a large collection of books and a poor memory ... this book is one book I use a lot. Do not tell my employer that I do most of my thinking off their clock and that time is not money, rather the momentum-energy four-vector (page 71).
For problems solved, collections of physics problems, I use other books, for understanding I use this book and Feynman's lectures.

Rating:
Summary: A strong bridge to cross upon
Review: I work in an industrial chemical research laboratory. I have little formal education, most of what I "know" I have taught myself. I know a little physics, and I've taught myself a little calculus. So why this physics book? Sometimes the introductory is too hard trying to be simple, and sometime the hard is really just the simple with more mathematics, also, the Feynman Lectures do not cover it all!
If you learn because you are curious and ask a lot of questions and are very stubborn and patient to make up for not being very smart, then you are like me, you will find, with efforts, this book to be a wonderful way to bridge the introductory.
I have a couple patents, and in each case I have used a little physics intuition and a collection of wonderful books. When I get an idea I look ahead to get a general feeling for the problem that I wish to solve. This book I have used to look ahead. Next, I go back to the basic college level text books and even more basic if necessary, and then move forward narrowing the questions and looking to solved problems and math text books to get the required background to forward an idea. I have a large collection of books and a poor memory ... this book is one book I use a lot. Do not tell my employer that I do most of my thinking off their clock and that time is not money, rather the momentum-energy four-vector (page 71).
For problems solved, collections of physics problems, I use other books, for understanding I use this book and Feynman's lectures.