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by nilkn 4131 days ago
I haven't read it, and it may be too advanced for this purpose, but Landau's books are generally held in extremely high regard and volume six of his Course of Theoretical Physics is on fluid mechanics.

For what it's worth, volumes two and three cover electrodynamics and quantum mechanics, respectively.
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sampo 4131 days ago
> Landau's books

Landau's presentation is extremely condensed. Griffiths is much more friendly towards the reader.

I would compare Landau to Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Some people do read them, but the rest of us just hold them in extremely high regard :-).

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jeffwass 4131 days ago
The Landau Lifshitz series is absolutely amazing. It works so well with my brain, entirely concise with just enough textual clarification as needed.

Eg, volume 1 is classical mechanics. By page 3 or so you e already derived the Lagrangian equations of motion.

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jarvist 4131 days ago
Landau/Lifshitz are freely available on the Internet archive:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22L.D.+Landa...

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