Questions tagged [resource-recommendations]
Questions asking "What is a good book about X?" or more generally, "What should I read to learn about X?", typically where there is not a single authoritative reference. Please READ THE GUIDANCE IN META (http://meta.physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4697 or click Learn More) before asking.
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Good text for writing a realtime physics solver?
What is a good, up-to-date, well-regarded text on writing physics solvers for (e.g.) game engines or realtime simulations?
In particular, treatment of numerical stability, convergence, asymptotic ...
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Is there any game for understanding elevator physics?
I'm a physics teacher and I'm wondering if there's any game for physics elevator problems (weight in accelerating elevator) that the student can play with to better understand in what situations the ...
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Literature Suggestions - Classical Field Theory [duplicate]
I'm a physics graduate that is joining the master degree program of my University. One of the areas of research that i'm very interested is Quantum Field Theory over curved surfaces, but the point is ...
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Seeking Resources for Implementing Self-Consistent Numerical Calculation of Retarded Green's Function
I'm seeking resources or references to learn how to implement a self-consistent numerical calculation for the retarded Green's function $G^R(\vec{p},E)$, which is defined as:
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G^R(\vec{p},E) = \frac{...
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Who said "Spinor is a square root of a vector"?
I'm trying to find out who said that "spinor is a square root of a vector". According to a source (Yu. B. Rumer, A. I. Fet, Group theory and quantized fields, Nauka, 1977 (in Russian) ), it ...
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Book recommendations on climate science
I've had my eye on properly understanding climate, climate change and the wide array of phenomena related. But, as a physics grad student, I'd fancy more exact, math-based bibliography, that treats ...
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Antisymmetrization of the electronic wave function
I'm studying systems of many electrons (for Theoretical Quantum Chemistry) from Landau, Quantum Mechanics (non-relativistic theory), chapters 61, 62, and 63.
I wanted to ask for good references to ...
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Is Walter Greiner's Nuclear Models a good and still relevant book?
The title encapsulates the essence. Is Walter Greiner's Nuclear Models a good book for (advanced) nuclear physics? Is it still relevant today, almost 30 years after its publication, or are there ...
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References to lattice supermanifolds
Do you have any references (textbooks and/or internet links) to lattice supermanifolds or, more generally, discrete superspaces?
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What are some books on Condensed Matter Physics like Horatiu Nastase's String Theory for Condensed Matter Physics?
Are there more books and review papers on the applications of string theory methods like AdS/CFT on condensed matter systems like the one by Horatiu Nastase?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/...
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Physics reading material for mathematics grad student [closed]
I am a graduate student in mathematics studying algebraic logic. For quite some time now, I have been meaning to study physics -- it turns out that some ideas in foundations of mathematics have found ...