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Book Recommendation: One that has a lot of problems and theory associated with polar coordinates and spherical polar coordinates [closed]

I would like to "master" polar coordinates and spherical polar coordinates. In the sense, I would like to become as well versed with them as I am with cartesian coordinates. I have gone ...
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Good resources for revision/learning of classical mechanics and electrodynamics [duplicate]

I am a first year PhD student in Physics. My M.Sc classes were all online due to covid and I did pretty bad in managing classes. Thus my electrodynamics knowledge is effectively upto B.Sc level(say ...
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Can anyone recommend video lectures on all subjects of physics for a masters student? [duplicate]

I am a student of Physics doing masters in it and I am looking forward to study on my own. By own I mean with video lectures, books etc. It would be really kind of you all if you could recommend me ...
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Is there a textbook for learning physics and multivariable calculus at the same time?

I am a student who took single variable calculus and algebra physics. I want to learn either mechanics or thermodynamics or electromagnetism with multivariable calculus, matrices, lagrange ...
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What's the best classical physics (mechanics, electromagnetism, etc) textbook to read as a regular book? [duplicate]

Looking for recommendations for someone who loves physics but is not in college/university. I'm a 39-year old engineer.
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Are there modern 1st year university physics textbooks using old-schoool layout, i.e. no sidebars and smaller format?

For various reasons I dislike the layout of modern university physics textbooks as exemplified by Wolfson, Young & Freedman, Hawkes, Giancoli etc. For teaching I would rather use/recommend a ...
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Which of Landau's books are suited for undergraduates? [closed]

Seeing how well-received Landau's books are, I want to know if any of them are suited for undergraduates.
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Introductory Physics Video Courseware Recommendations [duplicate]

I'm looking for something to supplement my Physics II class. Last year I started using these video lectures to supplement my Calculus class and it helped tremendously. I also turned to this ...