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Ask HN: Great resources for university calculus/physics?

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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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- "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,

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

*in thinking

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)

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