John Gale:
This book, like the other two excellent 'Theoretical Minimum' books in the trilogy is the antithesis of wordy-wordy attempts to popularise classical and quantum physics (along with relativity), leaving the reader with a group of qualitative descriptions and metaphors. Make no mistake - this is a boot-camp and workshop for understanding the basics with just-adequate mathematical rigor, presented with patient explanations for those who have let their maths rust a little.
The reader can emerge thinking like a physicist - a good classical preparation for the quantum book which follows.
Remarkably inexpensive and highly recommended.
Australia on Mar 22, 2023
Hilbeth P. Azikri de Deus:
Bom
Brazil on Mar 14, 2022
Bharat Vardhamane:
Best book on physics insights.
India on Jun 06, 2019
Emil Jensen:
Durante gli anni al liceo scientifico ho accarezzato l'idea di iscrivermi a fisica... poi la vita mi ha portato a fare ben altro. In anni recenti mi sono avvicinato di nuovo alla fisica con l'ottimo
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics (English Edition)
, un testo di tipo divulgativo, ma mai banale, perfetto per risintonizzarsi sulla materia.
Questo libro è il passo successivo. Un testo non universitario, ma neanche divulgativo, scritto per essere letto da chi pur non avendo studiato matematica e fisica a livello universitario, abbia comunque familiarità con integrali e derivate.
Scritto meravigliosamente, come solo un americano sa fare. Richiede un quaderno a quadretti, un compasso, una matita, tanti appunti e molta dedizione.
Poi ripaga dello sforzo.
Italy on Sep 07, 2018
J. M. Ross:
I was a biology major as an undergraduate and was required to take general physics with lab. Upon graduation I enrolled in a Masters program in physiology and was shocked at the math and physics details of some of the topics! It was necessary to relearn and integrate topics of chemistry, mathematics, and physics; a very humbling endeavor! I had to do this mostly on my own! With much persistence I successfully completed the Masters program. The Masters program cast me into an unexpected world of integrated topics where mathematics, chemistry, and physics were interacting with each other in ways that were not apparent, to me, as an undergraduate.
At this point I decided to pursue the Doctorate in the area of Molecular Biology and landed in a Chemistry Department in which my thesis advisor was a Physical Chemist during research on the solution conformations of protein molecules! The demands of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and their interrelationships reached a peak! I was panic-stricken but persisted by accepting the theories and their applications by mostly cobbling together the literature and relying on careful experimentation and data analysis! During...
United States on Aug 08, 2013
Laurent Stern:
The "Theorical Minimum" was the name of the exam that applicants had to pass in order to enter the theoretical physics department of the Kharkov Physicotechnical Institute headed by Lev Davidovich Landau. L. D. Landau, along with A.I. Kitaigorodskii, is also known to have written a serie of four great popular science books presenting general physics to young people, "Physics for everyone" (which happens to be the name of Leonard Susskind's blog too...). I'm wondering if "The Theoretical Minimum: what you need to know to start doing physics" couldn't be the first book of a follow-up to "Physics for everyone".
I've studied physics in university but I've stopped before starting working on a PhD. That was more than ten years ago and I needed to earn a living but I still loved science especially physics. One day I've discovered the Leonard Susskind's Theoretical Minimum courses on Youtube and Itunes and I was litterally astonished by them as they are exactly what I was looking for: not courses for advanced undergraduate students, not popular science presentations devoid of any technicity (theoretical physics without maths is an empty shell: theoretical physics...
United States on Feb 09, 2013
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This is a $25 paperback, but it is not wowie-zowie pop science. It's about working at physics. One has to work while reading. Some of the math I have done before, but I have seen some topics in physics in a new way. Some parts need rereading as it is not all simple material. Least action takes effort to understand, but it is worth it. I do look at other sources too.
In review, I started from the beginning and as I read I wrote the important equations in a notebook. This was very helpful.
Those who dislike it may have missed the subtitle, "What You Need to Know to Start DOING Physics" (emphasis mine). Reading this book is not a passive venture and it is not about how mysterious it all is, but about how to work with it.
I am about 3/4 through this book and I plan to buy more books in the series. Next up is Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory.
Canada on Sep 17, 2023