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Hello all,
Here are some old threads we have had over the past month offering good book suggestions. Pratik, since it sounds like you are interested in all books to help you with everything on Brilliant, I have tried to collate most of our book threads.
Everybody, please feel free to recommend any other books you like, that are not on the old threads or this one. It will probably be helpful to somebody.
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sir,this week one physics question is wrong(fluorescent tube qn.) ,so can u change that with another correct question,so that those who don't know to do such incorrect question can solve the new correct queation.
Feynman's Lectures on physics vol 1 is great for mechanics, from the basics to the intermediate. I think Vol 2 deals with electricity and magnetism in detail but he uses more advanced math so it's hard to get through.
Best for any amateur to Number Theory is David Burton's book : Elementary Number Theory ........ an excellent read
And for Physics I'd suggest Halliday, Resnick and Walker's : Fundamentals of Physics ... the best explanantion of rudimentary physics
For further detailed reading, Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics is literally mind-blowing !
if you like popular standard textbooks, university physics by young and freedman. if you want some elegant text and problems, physics for scientists and engineers by serway.
Try Challenge and Thrill of pre college mathematics, published by the national board of higher math. Also consider Resnick and Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics and Sears and Zemansky University Physics. Problem Peimer for the Olympiad is also a good book for previous math olympiad problems. India and International Math Olympiads b Arihant Publications is also very good. I have used these books myself and find them quite good. All these books are available on flipkart.com for nominal rates, or can be bought as ebooks if you prefer.
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Hello all,
Here are some old threads we have had over the past month offering good book suggestions. Pratik, since it sounds like you are interested in all books to help you with everything on Brilliant, I have tried to collate most of our book threads.
Everybody, please feel free to recommend any other books you like, that are not on the old threads or this one. It will probably be helpful to somebody.
Books for Combinatorics
Books for olympiad reference
Mathematical Circles
Number theory books
Electricity and Magnetism Books
Beginning trigonometry books
Physics book suggestions
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Thank you, Peter.
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No problem:)
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sir,this week one physics question is wrong(fluorescent tube qn.) ,so can u change that with another correct question,so that those who don't know to do such incorrect question can solve the new correct queation.
Mathematical circles by Fomin ,Genkin and Itenberg is very good for problem solving in maths.
Feynman's Lectures on physics vol 1 is great for mechanics, from the basics to the intermediate. I think Vol 2 deals with electricity and magnetism in detail but he uses more advanced math so it's hard to get through.
Best for any amateur to Number Theory is David Burton's book : Elementary Number Theory ........ an excellent read And for Physics I'd suggest Halliday, Resnick and Walker's : Fundamentals of Physics ... the best explanantion of rudimentary physics For further detailed reading, Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics is literally mind-blowing !
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Bal ka pratik
My favorite physics book:
The Feynman Lectures on Physics FEYNMAN ROCKS! THE BEST PHYSICS TEACHER THERE EVER WAS!
if you like popular standard textbooks, university physics by young and freedman. if you want some elegant text and problems, physics for scientists and engineers by serway.
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good. I have them
could you please suggest me best books regarding quantitative aptitude
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R.S. AGGARWAL and EDGAR THORPE
Try Challenge and Thrill of pre college mathematics, published by the national board of higher math. Also consider Resnick and Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics and Sears and Zemansky University Physics. Problem Peimer for the Olympiad is also a good book for previous math olympiad problems. India and International Math Olympiads b Arihant Publications is also very good. I have used these books myself and find them quite good. All these books are available on flipkart.com for nominal rates, or can be bought as ebooks if you prefer.
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brother...there's a limit.and you're crossing it.
sorry for that
Has anyone here solved the Harder problems in Mechanics from IE Irodov?
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