Originally posted by Soothfast
Physics books treat differentials as "very very teeny tiny infinitesimal little quantities," which I suppose is how Leibniz treated them centuries ago but it's lacking in rigor. I also do not like the use of "differentials" in mainstream calculus books, where they're juggled around as linear approximations of a sort, and suddenly something like dy/dx is t ...[text shortened]... y your box is full? It doesn't matter, my e-mail address is soothfast@zoho.com
After an initial period where we will see Newtonian Mechanics, Lagrangian Mechanics, Hamiltonian Mechanics, a little bit of Electrodynamics and Thermodynamics we'll use Griffiths book to learn Quantum Mechanics.
The goal is to go through the book linearly while solving (almost) all the exercises. I've already posted a link to a pdf file of the book in this thread so that people don't have to buy the book.
This will take some time on us all and we'll have to work hard, but it'll be rewarding on a lot of levels.
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