Classical Mechanics

Wow! even if you know physics inside and out I really recommend starting this one at the beginning. His perspective reaches beyond anything you thought you knew and he makes it startlingly readable.

In good shape

Fair on rigor but it isn't intended fora practicing mathematician or physicist. If you have some reasoning ability and a bit of first year college math it should work for you.

BEWARE, this is the same book as the US title "The Theoretical Minimum: What you need to know to start doing physics". I know, as I made the mistake of ordering it, hoping it was a different book by the same authors. That said, it is a great book, so chose one and go for it!

I have every book in this series in it;h print and Kindle’. They are classic Susskind and follow his YouTube lectures. They are written in in a nice almost chatty style that is very easy to understand. They assume you know nothing beyond the series and they have “interludes” in the math you need, starting with differential calculus in the classical mechanics i , Hilbert spaces in Quantum Mechanics andsoon. That is the only weakness of the hook. My guess is you will need more than a dozen or so pages before you getting a working knowledge of calculus but the authors do an amazing job of getting the subject across _Eve though the minis is not enough, you end up with knowledge to tackle books not so kind to the newsreader. The only flaw is the kindle’s handling of math. I have both the Paper white and the app for the iPad. The actual Kindle is eat it neither is good. The magazines come through perfectly so the platform is ores than capable of high quality graphics, so this problem should be an embarrassment to Amazon, one of the great companies of our time]. I hope they will correct this deficiency as soon as possible. If you cannot make the correction work for existing book, I’ll happily buy new copies.

Just the right book for me.

Wonderful addition

Great!

A well written for students passionate in physics. However, do not be fooled by the title which states "Theoretical Mininimum". The book requires a basic to intermediate level of college mathematics to get a sense of what the author is saying. That being said, I feel a greater appreciation of the math I learned in school, and have often found myself stunned by author's ability to make a logical concurrence between abstract mathematics and empirical physics.

As a current student of classical (variational) mechanics, I was interested in this book as light reading, to get a bird's eye view of the subject from a master. It did not disappoint! It should go without saying: this book will provide you a depth of understanding shallow as a puddle-- nay, shallow as a layer of condensation. It is not possible to convey the dense material covered by a textbook like Goldstein or Lanczos with a shred of justice, in a book like this. You should know that going in. Such books are rewarding to read, but they are extremely dense, difficult even for graduate students. What this book has to offer is perhaps best summarised as a light introduction to 'what is it theoretical physicists think about exactly?' There were a few errors in the equations, which I find to be disappointing given the purported target audience of the book (readers who had an interest and educational background in physics or a related discipline). They could have corrected these in a new edition but they didn't. You can't have errors when you breeze through physics this quickly... in a textbook you see similar equations 10s if not 100s of times, and you understand all of the components. You can spot errors. Likewise I could spot errors because I was familiar with most of the content of this book already. But much of the audience is going to be tripped up! The typesetting on this book is awful. I can typeset better books myself. I guess the older physicists have never used LaTeX... anyway the equations look terrible and are hard to read. The 'dot' above a symbol indicating the time derivative is egregiously bad, floating far above the symbols and sometimes outside of parentheses enclosing the symbol. I did not bother with most of the exercises, as most were things I knew already. Where this book shines is the clarity of writing. They've done a fantastic job of conveying things lucidly. It was an enjoyable read, and was pretty much exactly what I was looking for.

The book is absolute amazing for classical mechanics but I recieved it damaged badly in the front cover the half of the cover was torn and damaged. The pages are safe except the cover so it's all good for me but I am disappointed because of the cover.

Not 5 because should follow the theoretical minimum series appearance just with the penguin logo

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