r/PhysicsStudents • u/princeg0d • 2d ago
Need Advice Best physics book for solved examples ( mainly understanding) and approach building
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u/Lower-Canary-2528 Masters Student 2d ago
Classical mechanics - Morrin and, for most other undergraduate subjects, Schaum's Outline. Schaum's Outline is genuinely goated, but always go to it after reading from other primary textbooks to understand the topic, because the subject-depth discussion in Schaum is very shallow; it should be used as a problem-solving text, and it's very good. And for Quantum mechanics, u can still use Schaum, but Zettili is even more complete.
At the graduate level, such books are even more obsolete. But for specific subjects, u can find solved problems textbooks online if u do some digging.
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u/chermi 2d ago
If you plan to learn from reading solved examples before trying to solve them blind you're gonna have a bad time.
If you can afford it, you can use AI but tell it strictly not to solve it. Allow it to give you relevant theorems. Allow it to give hints only after you explain what you've tried.
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u/Roger_Freedman_Phys 2d ago
Since you haven’t told us what level of physics course you’re interested, your question is impossible to answer.
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u/princeg0d 2d ago
High school jee advanced nearly second stage of physics oly6
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u/lazulilaze 2d ago
high school curriculum of diff countries varies, for jee advance/olympiad specifically u can do pathfinder/krotov
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u/SquizZz1Zzy 2d ago
What you want is too general. Any specific field of physics? You know it is a science with more than 2000 years history?
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u/quantum4everyone 2d ago
Many students confuse solving many problems with understanding a subject. they are not the same. Very far from it. To develop deep understanding, you must be taught it, and at the introductory level there are only two books that really excel at this. Paul Hewitt’s Conceptual Physics and Lewis Epstein’s Thinking Physics. Get both and go through them in addition to your conventional text. You will find your true understanding to increase manyfold.