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- From: tayloe@uinpla.npl.uiuc.edu (Rex Tayloe)
- Subject: Re: Question on Mechanics Books
- References: <1993Jan7.201331.16640@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Organization: Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:17:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.201331.16640@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>, cochran@kali.enet.dec.com (Michael Cochran) writes:
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- >I'm thinking of buying some books. The two that I'm looking at are:
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- > 1) Goldstein - Classical Mechanics
- > 2) Marion - Classical Dynamics
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- >What do you think? Good reading? Are they THE classics that every bookshelf
- >should have or would there be another choice thats better?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Mike
- Those are the books... Marion was used for my undergrad mechanics and
- Goldstein for beginning graduate. Another is a book by Symon. Looking around
- the lab just now, these are the ones on everyones shelves. Good Luck.
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