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Seriously though, go through your book aswell bud.
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Its elaborates on the concepts decently. While providing many excercises to cement the concepts taught.
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I was studying linear algebra and was reminded of this book that I bought some time ago. I haven't finished it (2 chapters in) but the introductory concepts coupled with my random study of SU(2) group and its algebra gave me some rudimentary insight into the utility of Lie Algebra's and why it was good enough to be used for Pauli matrices and describing spin, but not good enough to be true vectors in 3-d+1 time space.
For those interested, there is also a good channel that goes over the boom in-depth and you can pretend youre a graduate student getting lectures and working problems from the book as homework.
Here is thw link
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Recently, an article came out talking about findings from analysis of data from particle collisions. It suggests (with some error) that there is a low probability for protons to have charm quarks in their bag (instead of up quarks im assuming). This is interesting if found to be true. The main differentiation between protons and neutrons are the combinations of quarks uud & udd respective to the order. Being that the is low probabilty of havin a stable configuration ucd to build protons thats pretty strange. Pretty cool stuff dood. Figure it out
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I just found out recently that converting between number systems (i.e. decimal to binary) uses successive multiplications or divisions depending on the digit placement. Then it dawned upon me, so is this why logarithms and modulizing number systems are interesting in Number theory. I always wondered why they make computer engineers study number theory.
Its a pretty interesting topic to dive into.
I dont have any links really have links on this one. Mayber check out the history of logarithms and see the correlation.
I would look at the translated version of "Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio," and look at what mods do.
For instance, using the integer number system and modulizing it by 2, I build the set of number which could be represented as binary numbers.
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Bought this book after seeing it referenced in Jackson's "Classical Electrodynamics" and so far it is wonderful. I have only grazed the surface, but just from the concise and explicit definitions given it seems wondeful. However, there is only slight intersections with Electrodynamics since the topic covers optics rather than the general topic of electromagnetic phenomena.
The book is called "Principles of Optics" by Born and Wolf.
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I really like this experiment. It has interesting physics. Its ironic how the discovery was made during the 30's when bose and einstein were building models to explain the phenomena during the mid 20's(Enric Perez, "Einsteins..."). It is also interesting how this began a gradual trend of building toy theoretical models before experimentation. It is granted due to the tight logic and the impositions of mathematical techniques on the world. Maybe quantum set theory an solve this. Check out "Einsteins quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas: non-statistical argument for statistics." By enric perez. The coverage is the main source cited.