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Is Fermi's Nuclear Physics still relevant as an entry level textbook? [closed]
As a quantum/theoretical chemist, I am eager to broaden my understanding of quantum phenomena. Fermi's Nuclear Physics book from 1950 seems like an important text.
However, seing it is 70+ years old, ...
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Does anybody have solutions to the Feynman handouts?
I've recently been reviewing the Feynman Lectures. Caltech has posted Feynman's actual handouts from his lectures on the website below.
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flphandouts.html
Though ...
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Where can I find Einstein's paper on relativity first to end?
Is there online resource where I can find Einstein's all papers on Relativity. I found something here. But no title contains "Relativity". So I think I can't find what I was expecting but ...
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Can there be an **essential topic** in physics which cannot be archimedean? [closed]
In physics it seems everything is explained with $\mathbb R$ or $\mathbb C$ typed entitites.
Is there anything in or that would be in future in physics that would need the utility of $p$-adics in an ...
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Where can I find the original derivation of Walter Ritz ballistic theory?
Where can I find the original derivation of Walter Ritz ballistic theory? I think it can be found most probably in his own book "Gesammelte werke Walter Ritz". Although there is an english version, I ...
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Freshman-level presentation of quantum mechanics using decoherence?
Probably within the last year, I came across a recent textbook or textbook-style presentation of quantum mechanics, at the freshman level, that introduced the subject from scratch using decoherence. I ...
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Source for this very well known figure or similar figure for nuclear matter distribution
I'm doing some presentation and I would like to use this figure
which I saw in multiple presentations and in textbooks. The problem is I never see its reference cited and I would like to find it ...
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Steerable neutrino beam
I read a proposal (by real particle physicists) for a steerable neutrino beam source that could feasably destroy nuclear weapons anywhere on the planet from a single location here.
I believe the ...
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von Laue's proof of $E=mc^2$
It is not widely known that the first correct proof of $E=mc^2$ was given by von Laue. Einstein never succeeded in giving complete and accurate proof. I came to know this when I was reading Hans ...
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Special Relativity Textbooks Request [duplicate]
I have a copy of David Bohm's Special Theory of Relativity and also a copy of T.M. Helliwell's Special Relativity. I was wondering if anyone has used these texts and if they're sufficient in providing ...
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Analogue of Princeton Companion to Mathematics for Physics?
I would like to know if there are compendiums much like the Princeton Companion to Mathematics for physics (especially classical physics: fluid mechanics, elasticity theory, Hamiltonian formalism of ...
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Review of Gas Chromatographs?
Could anyone suggest a recent review article or book on gas chromatography instrumentation? My interest is in the devices themselves, rather than using them for a particular application.
This article, ...
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Books that every physicist should read
Inspired by How should a physics student study mathematics? and in the same vein as Best books for mathematical background?, although in a more general fashion, I'd like to know if anyone is ...