Ask HN: Great resources for university calculus/physics?

[russianjoe]

Hello HN Soon me and a lot of students will be starting collage/university, so I figured this would be a good time for this question. Personally my high school teachers were not really good, and I want to fully understand the math and physics courses I will be taking for my engineering degree.

So what are you recommendations, what books or resources helped you? I'm sure this will be a great help to current undergraduate students and to anyone wanting to get into engineering.

Thanks :D

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[Jugurtha]

- "Differential and Integral Calculus", Piskunov.

- "A Course of Higher Mathematics", Smirnov. This one could be a bit expensive, but if you find yourself in a country that has had good relations with the former Soviet Union, you might find it a a really affordable price because they had licenses to print these books, and generally speaking, the MIR Publishers, Moscow, books.

- "Problems in Mathematical Analysis", Demidovich.

- "Course of Theoretical Physics", Landau.

- "Problems in General Physics", Irodov.

You'll note that there are "course" books and "problem" books in there.

All the best,

[Utkarsh_Mood]

Would add "Aptitude Test Problems in Physics",S. S.Krotov. It is tougher than Irodov but definitely improves upon your skill in think about hard problems

[Utkarsh_Mood]

*in thinking

[k310]

Reading material ahead of taking a course is a strategy I used to help shorten the learning curve;

1. So you want to learn physics ( https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics ) The books recommended all look expensive, so not for dabbling.

2. A quick search turned up a bunch of free resources that look helpful:

LibreTexts ( https://libretexts.org )

OpenStax ( https://openstax.org/subjects ) Rice University

InfoBooks ( https://www.infobooks.org/free-pdf-books/physics/ ) 50+ Physics Books

College Phsyics ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/61 ) --

University Physics Volume 1 ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/378 )-- both part of

Open Textbook Library/ University of Minnesota’ ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ )

Free Physics Textbooks at Open Culture ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ )

Introductory Physics I Elementary Mechanics ( https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Class/intro_physics_1/intr... ) Duke

Free Math Texts ( http://www.freemathtexts.org )

Mathematics for Physics ( https://goldbart.gatech.edu/PostScript/MS_PG_book/bookmaster... )

3. Even engineers need to communicate well.

Editor's Manual ( https://editorsmanual.com ), including https://editorsmanual.com/articles/i-or-me/ I or me.

Elements of Style

https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/...

https://ia804502.us.archive.org/5/items/pdfy-2_qp8jQ61OI6NHw... (4th edition)