Popular: 1. One Two Three Infinity - George Gamow 2. Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland - George Gamow 3. Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom - George Gamow The Mr. Tompkins books are now combined into one volume called “Mr. Tompkins in Paperback”. 4. The Restless Universe - Max Born 5. The Character of Physical Law - Richard Feynman 6. QED: The strange Theory of Light and Matter - Richard Feynman 7. The Quark and the Jaguar - Murray Gell-Mann 8. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe - Simon Singh 9. The Quantum Universe - Tony Hey and Patrick Walters 10. Einstein’s Mirror - Tony Hey and Patrick Walters 11. Hidden Unity in Nature’s Laws - John C. Taylor 12. The Forces of Nature - Paul (P.C.W.) Davies 13. The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene 14. The First Three Minutes - Steven Weinberg 15. The Structure of the Universe - Jayant Narlikar 16. The Key to the Universe - Nigel Calder 17. Foundations of Physics - Robert B. Lindsay and Henry Margenau 18. The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra Text Books: 1. Mechanics (Berkeley Physics Course Vol 1) - Charles Kittel, Walter Knight et al. 2. Electricity and Magnetism (Berkeley Physics Course Vol 2) - Edward M. Purcell 3. Waves (Berkeley Physics Course Vol 3) - Frank S. Crawford 4. Quantum Physics (Berkeley Physics Course Vol 4) - Eyvind Wichman 5. Statistical Physics (Berkeley Physics Course Vol 5) - Frederick Reif 6. Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics - Douglas Giancoli 7. Electromagnetism: Principles and Applications - Paul Lorrain and Dale Corson 8. Classical Electricity and Magnetism - Wolfgang Panofsky and Melba Philips 9. Fundamentals of Optics - Francis A. Jenkins and Harvey E. White 10. Optics - Eugene Hecht 11. Fundamentals of Physics (vols 1-2) - R. Shankar Books 11 are the accompanying books for the following two Yale undergraduate Physics courses by Prof. Shankar: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KOKnWaLiL8w.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NK-BxowMIfg.html 12. Thermodynamics - Enrico Fermi 13. Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles - Robert Eisberg and Robert Resnick 14. Atomic Physics - Max Born 15. Theoretical Physics - Georg Joos 16. Principles of Mechanics - J.L. Synge and B.A. Griffith 17. Classical Mechanics - Tom Kibble and Frank Berkshire 18. A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics - John L. Townsend 19. Quantum Mechanics - Leonard Schiff 20. Spacetime Physics - Edwin Taylor and John Wheeler 21. Introduction to Special Relativity - Wolfgang Rindler 22. Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology - Robert J. A. Lambourne And of course 23. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (vols 1-3) - Richard P. Feynman Although "Mathematical Methods for Physics" type books are not included in this video special mention must be made for: 24. Mathematical Methods for Science Students - G. Stephenson 25. Advanced Mathematical Methods for Engineering and Science Students - G. Stephenson and P. M. Radmore 26. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences - Mary L. Boas 27. Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering - K.F. Riley, M.P. Hobson, S.J. Bence 28. Applied Mathematics for Engineers and Physicists - Louis A. Pipes 29. Mathematical Methods: For Students of Physics and Related Fields - Sadri Hassani 30. Mathematical Physics: A Modern Introduction to Its Foundations - Sadri Hassani And finally, a beauty (for the mathematically inclined) from Prof. Balakrishnan: 31. Mathematical Physics: Applications and Problems - V. Balakrishnan If you do not know how good he is, here are some of his advanced undergraduate/graduate level lectures at IIT, Chennai: Classical Physics (including Statistical Mechanics): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q6Gw08pwhws.html Quantum Physics: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TcmGYe39XG0.html
'PHYSICS' by Resnick,Halliday and Krane is a book that really walks you through most of the Physics.From Newton's Laws to the Second Law of Thermodynamics in Volume 1 and from Electrostatics to Particle Physics and Cosmology in the last chapter. I am through with the first volume and half of the second volume.I am a high school student and it is my favorite book,as it kinda left no confusion at all,in the topics that I covered.Reading that book feels like discovering Physics yourself,and that is really fun.
@@soumyaprakash3569 David Morin is only for Classical Mechanics,plus it has topics like Lagrangian Mechanics and Central Forces,and JEE students honestly don't have time for that.😅 I have read certain topics.That book is really awesome,but I find HRK more clear and kinda does the motivation part(that is,how would we come up with the concept ourselves)much better.Also one of the reasons I liked Morin was that its language matches with that I use in my notes.😂While reading the chapter on Newton's Laws,I had a feeling that I wrote that book.But then,of course,it far surpassed what I can do right now,since I am just a high school student and David Morin is a Harvard professor.Btw,did you know,he has a book on Waves coming up?The draft is available online.
When I was a kid I was introduced to science from Scientific American of all things. I started reading that when I was still in grade school. At one point I was going to be a mechanical engineer (my dad was a machinist and that influenced). I fell into the physics rabbit hole after reading Scientific American, and I wanted to become a physicist. Then I read an article on Conway's Game of Life and the programming bug bit. I took physics in Uni up to 250 (which is 2nd year - not sure how the schedule numbers work in all universities), but I majored in CSE. I still have a deep love for physics though, and your videos are a perfect way to rendezvous with that old love.
I agree that science is not dogma. Still science doesn't know what people, consciousness nor ideas are. Therefore, Brian Greene's claim that we're bags of particles is dogma. Nor is there any proof that consciousness doesn't collapse the wave function.
I am an undergraduate electrical engg. But after 2 years of my degree I realized that my real interest is Quantum Physics and Astrophysics. Whenever I try to start self study, the heavy math comes in my way. It'll be very helpful for me if you recommend books that (if not in easy way) atleast explain fairly the quantum and astrophysical topics (related to math).
I'm really enjoyng "Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum" (Leonard Susskind) He focuses more on the concepts rather than the math in a way that is intuitive but profound at the same time. This was the approach I was looking for QM, especially in my first contact with it when I was in college.
Sadly, a huge part of the book is still given over to Penrose's stupid old ideas about consciousness coming from quantum floogling of the microtubules... He's a brilliant man, and most of his work is just fine. His consciousness silliness deserved a quiet burial.
@@TheDavidlloydjones definitely agree. You kinda have to know where he veers off when reading one of his books. He is brilliant, but sadly he always shoehorns his personal theological persuasions into his books at the end.
Pretty great book that sits proudly in my "buffet" lol, but still not for the ordinary man... I still have to read it a few more times to even grasp the whole content....
@@TheDavidlloydjones I'm not sure what your point is, but there has been foundings that many mechanisms in the brain general activity are quantum based...
I saw "How to Teach Quantum Physics to your Dog" at a book store the other day and thought "Well, I don't have a dog but... I want to know how." I just finished it and it was pretty fun!
Highly recommend the national geographic series called 'genius', I know its not a book but the first season is all about Einsteins life story, really well delivered and the acting is brilliant too imo
QED by Feynman is a delightful intro to quantum theory. It conveys the deep strangeness of the quantum world better than any book I've read, yet does so without maths. The main technical concept he uses is, well... clock dials. Feynman prepared these lectures for Alix Mautner, an English literature friend, with the goal of using no math at all. He fudged that goal a bit in the footnotes, but only because he could not resist pointing out that complex numbers provide an extraordinarily efficient way to represent and calculate changes in large numbers of those little clock dials. By taking so much of the mystery out of the maths, Feynman makes *what* they say about the quantum world all the more striking.
I love that you recommend Bohm... truly a great read! Some volumes I find enjoyable - Vibrations and Waves by French Intermediate Quantum Mechanics by Baym Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation by Price, Press,et.al. Quantum Dynamics by Schwinger Astrophysical Concepts by Harwit Dirac's little monograph on Relativity is concise and eminently readable... Spacetime Physics by Taylor and of course, Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler
Idk, for example Feynmann explained the kinetic equation with "we could quickly derive that..." and nothing else. I did my own research and found out that it took our best brains 1 century to "quickly" derive that equation. I discovered that equation was not as simple as it looked, though the demonstration can be quickly done indeed.
@@douglasstrother6584 I doubt he would come up with it so "easily". Feynmann is not a god you know and each time I talk with engineers/physicists, I realize they didn't get the kinetic equation quite well. The best example is Veratisium's video about a physicist claiming you can go faster than wind when sailing and many didn't understand him. A guy (teacher at the university !) lost a $ 10.000 bet with Veratissium on that claim lol .
For German speakers I highly recommend "Liebes Hertz!" by Anita Ehlers. Sadly I don't know if there is an English translation. It contains a lot of stories and anecdotes of the Greats like Röntgen, Einstein, Nernst, Meitner, Hilbert, Heisenberg and many many more, which gives you insight into the culture of scientists in the past. I would recommend "Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell" by A. Zee, it's quite advanced but it doesn't (on the first read, really) require you to go into a lot of maths to understand the concepts. I feel it is a very nice primer on the very very deep subject of quantum field theory. It is enjoyable to read and if you are familiar with quantum mechanics and the mathematics involved you can at least follow along for the most part, while enjoying sprinkled in stories about the history and the dead ends of particle physics of the last century.
Well, (for not so advance students)I actually enjoyed reading 1. Gravity: A very short introduction by Timothy Clifton. A very detailed and interesting book also some other books from the same series such Particle Physics, Astrophysics, etc. 2. Quantum by Manjit Kaur also provides a very interesting explanation of the whole quantum history from Bohr's model to Bohr's-Schrodinger model-Copenhagen interpretation- Bell's theory. (must read for quantum enthusiast)
I don't really know much about physics and I'm not good at mathematics, But I always had a fascination with our universe and physics ideas and theories! I feel like videos that talk about physics ideas are amazing, but I felt maybe that these videos (like ted talks and whatnot) are just surface knowledge and you don't really get a deep knowledge on the subject. Thank you for these recommendations! I'll start reading and learn more about the universe!
A book that I really enjoyed as a graduate student (when studying many-body theory in condensed matter) was A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem by Richard Mattuck. Probably my favorite book was Computational Physics by Jos Thijssen. As far as QM, we used Sakurai and Cohen Tannoujdi which I really enjoyed. BTW .... no Feynman lectures??
@@Sqaarg Both the content (all topics that I find interesting ... it's where I learned HF / MD / LAPW) and just well written. I can imagine that he was a great teacher.
I'd toss out a recommendation for Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. I think it's an excellent middle ground for folks who are comfortable reading through mathematical explanations and looking through formulas, but is also written in a conversational tone that doesn't feel like chugging through a textbook. A lot of his personality comes through the writing and its entertaining along with being informative. The first half of the book is a summary of mathematics from "what is a fraction" to "what are connections on fiber bundles" (though I find his explanations of tenor calculus and differential geometry lacking and will need supplemental resources to understand) and then the latter half of the book is applying those concepts and building up the structure of modern physics from Penrose's perspective at the time of writing.
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Yeah, Penrose kind of lost me with the quantum consciousness stuff. Neat ideas, but I don't know how grounded they are. I've seen some arguments against as well citing the high rate of decoherence in the brain wouldn't allow their proposed effects to have a cumulative impact on brain processes. I guess we'll see!
@@johnsjarboe Sorry but Max Tegmark has admitted he was completely wrong in his attempt to debunk Hameroff and Penrose re the "decoherence times" in the brain. Unfortunately the interwebs works on "sound bytes" as people glancing at info without really doing much analytical thinking. I've actually corresponded with Stuart Hameroff about this - I asked him for the precise vid where Max Tegmark is in the audience and Hameroff calls him out and Tegmark admits his error. I'll see if I can find the title for you. I might have blogged that discussion.
@@johnsjarboe The essential error of Tegmark was he was assuming a much larger molecule so that had the requirement of a much slower decoherence time. Penrose and Hameroff's decoherence time is proven by Aniriban Pady - oh how to spell his last name again? I've corresponded with him also - he runs a lab in Japan. Anyway the cumulative effects are from "self-amplification" - just read the book "Life on the Edge" about quantum biology - by JohnJoe Mcfadden. It won a science book award in 2016 I think. Ok - what Anirban found out is that ultrasound creates a macroquantum resonance of the tubulin that is 3000 times greater amplification. So this is because the tubulin is a metamaterial of the microtubule so that the ultrasound is actually a subharmonic quantum beat of the future - of the virtual photons. So the magnetic moment between the proton and electron creates a subharmonic quantum beat as the ultrasound of the microtubules. To quote Hameroff: "And we have a sequence of moments, "bing bing bing" for example 40 hertz or it could be much much faster along with backward time effects, which comes from Aharonov, supported by Libets experiments, of backward information, which is necessary for free will because the activity which happens when we act consciously, happens AFTER we've acted.... it's enough to move the nuclei and that gives rise to geometric or topological qubits perhaps...using Fermi length of nuclei as denominator for time=Planck's Constant/frequency It turns out we don't need that fast - just Kilohertz [ultrasound] - and this would require more neurons (10 to the 6th) which is predicted by other models... And then altered states...might increase the frequency [to the blue light with fewer activated neurons] and push it the other way - enhanced consciousness. Life may be intrinsically a quantum biological effect at its root, covering quantum physics, relativity and philosophy....addressing quantum vibrations in microtubules offer therapeutic opportunities...of putting Ultrasound megahertz into the brain..."
@@johnsjarboe Stuart Hameroff: Anesthesia, Consciousness, Bohm and Penrose (EmQM17) - plug that into youtube and Stuart says, "Max, is he here?" That is at 32 minutes into that 2020 talk - and Max says, "yes" - and then Stuart explains why Max was wrong about his decoherence claim. thanks
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene! It is an amazing book for those interested in physics. Greene uses analogies and real world examples to establish an understanding of the topics he is trying to teach. The book starts out by explaining the fundamental concepts in physics that is needed to understand later developments in string theory and quantum fluctuations. I highly recommend! Also the popular science book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an easy read and is written in a way that will make you never want to put the book down!
I absolutely loved reading Quantum Chemistry by Ira N. Levine. I found the book served as a great introduction to quantum mechanics, starting from differential equations up to perturbation theory and onwards to molecular orbitals. Because of the chemistry-centric approach to QM, the book incredibly is very well grounded in reality. I also find the connection between chemistry and quantum mechanics to be rather beautiful. The playground of intricate and complex rules that chemists use day to day can be traced back to a small number of physical principles. However, once you start to push these principles to their limits, you start to realise why chemists don't bother with them in the first place!
As for general relativity i would recommend 2 books , first studnet's guide to vectors and tensors probably the best book on hand for the introduction to tensors , then first course in general relativity by schutz , now to even approach the book I recommend a good understanding of special relativity David morin's introduction to classical mechanics is amazing and Richard mould's basic relativity is amazing . also before relativity id recommend you know linear algebra and multivariable to even attempt solving tensor calculus questions . for quantum mechanics I would recommend you learn linear algebra first then get into say bransden's book , or better yet shankar its hard at first and you will need more resources quantum mechanics cannot be learned by one book and problems are a must must you cannot get an understanding without problems .
I’m surprised and very pleased to see David Bohm’s book advertised here, it’s really a great book for starters in quantum physics. It was more troublesome to find a GR book to my liking, finally I settled with Wald’s “General Relativity”. Also I would recommend all of Steven Weinberg’s book as a source of great clarity and insight.
Would definitely recommend Leonard Susskind for beginners. Having forgotten all the basics of Physics and Math studied 12 years back, I needed something strong to brush up on those concepts. Susskind did an amazing job. I just finished the second part of the Theoretical Minimum series: Quantum Mechanics and cannot wait to start the third one.
The best way to teach physics and the most enjoyable way to learn physics is physics as a story, how it evolved over time like a history book with observations, chance discoveries, hypothesising and theorising, experimentation in the time sequence as they happened.
What is your take on reading the works by the original scientists (today one would say OP) like Dirac (The Principles of Quantum Mechanics), Planck (Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics) or Einstein (Relativity: The Special and the General Theory )?
I loved reading electrodynamics by Purcell And introduction to classical mechanics by David Morin These books were amazing, and the practice problems were quite interesting too
I'm waiting for a really simple book on quantum mechanics, simpler than "How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog". Something really basic like "How to Teach Quantum Physics to Deepak Chopra". Great list though, I should check them out. I like Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman, as well as John Gribbin's In Search of Schrödinger's Cat / Schrödinger's Kittens. (and Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time of course - but A Cartoon History of Time is definitely worth getting your hands on, if you can).
If you really want to learn physics, you have do the underlying mathematics that come with it. Classical mechanics is probably the easiest to understand intuitively, but there comes a point specifically in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics where the learning the associated math is a must. Electrodynamics and Quantum same thing, except those are way more non intuitive than classical mechanics.
One of my favourites; great insight in the scientific method and its application for a layman; The Big Bang, by Simon Singh. For those who have a background in physics, albeit rather a long time ago like me; a real classic; Einsteins theory of relativity, by Max Born (Dover Publications). Rather quaint English, but really well formulated.
The aproch on the "Dead Famous" series is really cool, I remember reading the Isaac Newton's one as a teenager. At the time I was sure that I would become a physicist, but I ended up as a computer scientist lol
"Dead Famous: Albert Einstein.." is an absolute gem. Picked it up as a curious kid because of the name and humble size and it started an ongoing relationship with physics. The already recommended by others two volume "Physics" by Resnick, Halliday and Walker is another gem. Great textbook for 15-16 year olds that gives a very good foundation for most of the physics you might later come across.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's Quantum Mechanics is a massively comprehensive book, if you want to _know_ QM. Gravitation, aka MTW is great, though I hear it's 'dated'? idk about that. Kip is a brilliant explainer.
Not sure if they qualify as physics books, but _The Emperor's New Mind_ and _Shadows Of The Mind_ by Roger Penrose are good reads. Down-the-middle in terms of clueness required.
These are very interesting and clever books indeed. I also like another one of Roger Penrose - "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe". The book is very thick - 1000 pages.
Thank you so much for recommending the book "Dead Famous: Albert Einstein and His Inflatable Universe" by Dr. Mike Goldsmith! I loved the book when I read it the first time when I was 13. Have some very fond memories associated with it. I made a project based on some ideas from the book attempting to give a tangible explanation of Relativity for a school project. I won an interschool science project competition because of that book. Thank you so much again for recommending it !!
Einstein for Everyone by Robert L. Piccioni is a really good place to start if you want to delve into some of the maths in special and general relativity, it's still very easy to understand and doesn't rely too heavily on difficult to understand mathematics.
I like the David Deutsch books. The fabric of reality and The beginning of infinity. They're not only about physics, but science in general. The fabric of reality had some really interesting ideas on QM.
I always felt as though the Feynman series was more for the laymen. I think it's good for people who want to *understand* physics, but not necessarily for those who want to *do* physics.
@@lafudge2929 it’s certainly more rigorous than the books mentioned in the video, and in my experience they(especially the original Feynman lectures) can provide a really good intuition for the physics concepts, which often times is skipped over in favour of mathematical manipulation’s and derivations (which are also important don’t get me wrong)
I tried reading (admittedly a small amount of) Feynman's lectures & I didn't find them that good. DrPhysicsA's videos are the best. Also Engineering Mathematics by Stroud is superbly gentle & clear
1. HC Verma for elementary 2. Physics Galaxy for elementary Olympiad 3. Halliday-ressnick 4. Stephen Hawking 5. Einstein 😂 Edit: thnx parth bhaiya ❤️♐♐♐
What do think about 'The brief history of time ' .I read it. But couldn't understand it to the fullest. But could relate with some ideas. I would also like to know what u think about ' For the love of physics ' by Lewin Walter ,and 'Relativity ' by Albert Einstein?
I'm quite late for the party, but I cannot recommend enough Manjit Kumar's _Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality_. It's a popular book, but it's a bit more rigorous than most such because the author strives to give you an accurate understanding of the matters at hand, sans math. It's well worth the effort.
Hey, parth would you like to suggest some good textbook for mechanics and calculas ( i already hve studied both to high school and a little above so make it a hardest one now ) . My undergrad is going to start in November (most probably) at iisc and i want to get ahead of the class a little bit ...
Engineering Maths by Stroud is great IMO. It's gentle & clear & easy to work through. The sequel book does complex analysis which i think might be useful for black holes & grad, div, curl which is useful for Maxwell's equations but it doesn't do tensor calculus which is useful general relativity
Hey, parth what are your thoughts about the question put up by prof. Walter lewin About the flux change in a superconducting coil with a moving magnet. 👍
Yes I was looking for a book on Tensors and GR. A couple of years ago I came across a good book from the OU in my local library. Then I moved and cannot remember the title. Any idea ? For a popular book, I would recommend Heinz Pagels "Cosmic Code". Its quite old now but is a good book on QM. Likewise "Quantumn Reality" Nick Herbert.
I thought Feynman's lectures would be there but yeah they are a bit complicated (I haven't read them fully but refer it frequently for some topics I am stuck with or need some intuitive analysis) so I don't complaint.😂
Great video brother I want to become high energy particle physicist can you tell me the process after 12 I've choosed bsc hon physics is it a correct way need some suggestions brother help me Thank you
Hello! Since you are a physics major i'd like to ask, i am supossed to choose college major and my parents are hellbent on btech cse, but i want to take bsc physics honors. Which one do you think is better option?
Feynman's lectures.... that's all one need ^^. both for student or grandma. you get a kick out of it (every feynman's book actually, "surelly you're joking Mr Feynman" being even funny).
I cannot agree with the fourth recommendation. Bohm's books and papers are the last thing which I would recommend for someone who learn QM. This book is not very bad but Bohm didn't really understand the nature of QM and in some points of the book his personal (and wrong, as we know today) views can be seen.
Unfortunately there's no way to understand /do theoretical physics without understanding the math behind it. There are some popular books though, maybe the shape of space?
@@Sqaarg read "Triangles of Thought" by Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes. It's crucial to study noncommutative geometry to properly understand the maths of physics. That's a popular book and Connes has great lectures on youtube also. thanks
@@Vegan_PhysicsEnthusiast Penrose in his recent lectures admits that the foundation of his math is now "noncommutative geometry" but Penrose also admits he doesn't really do the math as it is quantum algebra. Similarly his collaborator Professor Basil J. Hiley coined the term "Twistor" for Penrose's model of reality and Hiley also relies now on quantum algebra as noncommutative geometry.
start with vector calculus then special functions. Advanced will get to group theory (Lie groups) & representation theory. Super advanced gets into differential geometry, topology...it's a bottomless pit of abstraction. When you understand the famous quote, "Electromagnetism is just a non-integratabtle phase"...you're done.
hi parth G . I am a fresher at university . I want to increase love on physics . Can you give me some good physics puzzle brain-teaser book suggestions ? not like a syllabus book ... i want interesting puzzle brain storming books ....please reply me .🙏🙏🙏
