Fundamentals of Physics II: Electromagnetism, Optics, and Quantum Mechanics (The Open Yale Courses Series) by R. Shankar | (PDF) Free Download

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A beloved introductory physics textbook, now including exercises and an answer key, accessibly explains electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics R. Shankar is a well†‘known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, whose popular online introductory-physics video lectures have been viewed over a million times. In this second book based on his online courses, Shankar explains electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics, developing the basics and reinforcing the fundamentals. With the help of problem sets and answer keys, students learn about the most interesting findings of today’s research while gaining a firm foundation in the principles and methods of physics.

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⭐Very clear and easy to folllow.

⭐Superb book by one of the best teachers. Equations are so small as to be eye strain causers. Every book I have bought and all the samples I have examined in Kindle are too small. Why doesn’t Amazon fix this problem? Same on laptop, tablet, desktop. I know… because they don’t have to.

⭐I’ve had some professors who have known their subject deeply but don’t know how to teach it. Dr. Shankar has not only the gift of clearly teaching the subject matter but also unexpectedly throwing in tidbits of dry physics humor which students thrive on. (I’m a firm believer that a sense of dry physics humor is a sign of high intelligence! Not to brag, but as a former high school physics teacher I used it quite often myself!)For a person doing a self-study, FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS BOOKS 1 AND 2 are awesome! Presentation is given in a conversational style that makes you feel as if you are in the classroom as a beginning undergraduate physics student in Dr. Shankar’s class. The books cover a full range of topics in a rigorous way. The books presume students have completed a course in vector calculus. One more thing: The newer edition of book 2 contains a full set of problems at the end of each chapter complete with all the answers to not only the odd # problems but also the even # problems which is very important for a person working thru the book as a self-study! (Some authors do not provide answers to any of their problems!! Maybe they don’t know how to do the problems themselves!!) Not only does Dr. Shankar give the answers but he also provides a complete set of solutions on a separate website.Topics for the 2 books are::FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS-BOOK 1- MECHANICS, RELATIVITY, THERMODYNAMICS: Newton’s Laws of Motion, Conservation of Energy, Kepler’s Laws of Celestial Motion, Conservation of Momentum, Rotational Dynamics, Special Relativity, Mathematical Methods, Waves, Fluids, Heat, The 3 Laws of Thermodynamics.FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS-BOOK 2- ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, QUANTUM MECHANICS: Coulomb’s Law, Electric Fields, Gauss’s Law-Theory and Application, Electric Potential, Conductors and Capacitors, Circuits and Currents, Lorentz Forces, Biot-Savart Law, Faraday and Lenz’s Law, AC and LRC Circuits, E & M Waves and Relativity, Geometric Optics, Mirrors & Lenses, Quantum Mechanics, Wave & Particle Theory of Light, Wave Functions, Momentum and Energy States, Quantum Dynamics.

⭐These books are amazing as a first pass at physics. However, they won’t work by themselves, since they don’t have enough exercises and problems. Supplement with a book of problems, such as the Physics for Scientists & Engineers books by Serway or Halliday & Resnick.Whenever anyone brings up the Feynman lectures, I point them to these books instead. They actually are what the FL’s are often advertised as: a pedagogical marvel by a physics genius with “a-ha” insights on every page. Not only about physics but about many other things as well. And with lots of wonderful humorous comments thrown in.The difference is that these books are actually friendly for beginners. FL’s are a must-read for those who already know the subject well and want deeper understanding.So read these Shankar books, and do lots of problems alongside. In fact, I would say the best way is to be working on problems much more often than you are reading through exposition. Only read enough exposition to get you over a hump in a problem, once you’ve tried very hard to get over the hump yourself. That’s the only way to truly learn.Once you’ve done that for a whole book, only then go to Feynman and other sources.The only read drawback to these books: The figures are not very good. In fact the drawings Shankar provides in his video lectures are actually better than the ones given in the book. But they are good enough that at least they aren’t actually confusing. And as he mentions, it keeps the books affordable.

⭐Watch Ramamurti Shankar on Youtube and read / buy the book. You will not regret it.Compared to the high quality how the topic is transferred the price of the book is very low.

⭐Amazing lucidity on profound ideas of Physics. A master teacher at work.

⭐You will never find another physics book that is so well written that difficult concepts are made easy to understand.

⭐Excellent book for teaching undergraduate courses.

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