Hey /sci/, compsci undergrad here with a developing interest

>>8212748
for college freshman (calc. based) intro physics, get halliday/resnick
http://bookzz.org/book/507433/a4b121

if you want a good treatment:
goldstein 'classical mechanics'
http://bookzz.org/book/450084/e1b1c2

you may want to ease into goldstein with taylor
http://bookzz.org/book/1024037/ff3619

put on your big boy pants (some years from now)
http://bookzz.org/book/451142/19bb52

>>8212748
>I've taken algebra-based physics 1 and 2

Why did you waste your time and not take the calculus based version?

>>8212761
Thanks! I'll definitely check these out.

>>8212772
I had a few issues with prerequisites—one of them being calculus 1, which I didn't have when I took it my freshman year.

>>8212761
>>8212796
As a follow-up to that recommendation, I'd honestly say you could read Landau-Lifshitz alongside Goldstein, if you're *really* ready to commit to understanding classical mechanics at a solid level. LL is good for summary of the content, some physical intuition. Goldstein will give you lots of practice, take you through the derivations and provide problems/derivations of your own to master. Do the problems and derivations to demonstrate your knowledge.

Going into this, you really want to make sure you're comfortable with everything you learned in multivariable calculus, some basic diff. eqs. (you'll actually learn some neat tricks in mechanics books on how to tackle certain non-linear ODEs), and a grasp of linear algebra--with attention to change of basis, diagonalization, eigenfunction/eigenvalues. I think it might suggest or hint at Fourier Transforms, but really its more of an application than something fleshed out.

The beauty of Goldstein is that it really keeps going and going into a lot of great topics. I'm a physics grad and I notice things others might not be familiar with decently often that I saw in Goldstein. It's a fantastic self-study text

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>>8212833
>Going into this, you really want to make sure you're comfortable with everything you learned in multivariable calculus, some basic diff. eqs. (you'll actually learn some neat tricks in mechanics books on how to tackle certain non-linear ODEs), and a grasp of linear algebra--with attention to change of basis, diagonalization, eigenfunction/eigenvalues. I think it might suggest or hint at Fourier Transforms, but really its more of an application than something fleshed out.

This is a CS major we're talking about

>>8212854
Original meme

>>8212748
www.lightandmatter.com

This is what you're looking for.

>sees someone interested in physics
>hands book on Lagrangian mechanics

But in all seriousness, just read transcripts of the Feynman lectures. They're good for fundamentals.

>>8213443
This. Goldstein is a great textbook, but it's just impossible for somebody who hasn't taken a course on differential equations or mathematical methods.

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>>8212761
I decided to check out Taylor... and what the fuck is this? Is this Physics?

>>8213592
Yes. It's laying the ground work for the math. Read it, and understand it.

>>8213592
It's 3D geometry with matrix algebra

>>8213592
1.8 is the chain rule pretty much :^)

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