Thorough, extremely useful treatment of classical mechanics, electromagnetic theory, and relativity, includes full explanations of function theory, vectors, matrices, dyadics, tensors, partial differential equations, and other advanced mathematical techniques. Nearly 200 problems with answers from many different fields of physics and varying widely in difficulty.
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My God!!!,
By chrigo@intercable.net (Monterrey Mexico) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mathematical Physics (Dover Books on Physics) (Paperback)
The theoretical fundaments of anything one could possibly think of about mechanics, dynamics, waves, classical electrodynamics and relativity are here. This man was a master. My deepest respects. The book is heavy, and I do mean heavy, reading, but it pays off if one does the neccessary to understand, i.e., stare four hours at one and only one page.
The deductions and demostrations are as general as can be yet very concisely carried out. Nothing is left to assumption.
The book introduces different mathematical tools as it goes along, i.e, vector analysis for basic mechanics, harmonics for theory of potential, dyadics and matrices for transformations, etc.
I am a student in electronic engineering with a deep love for physics and this book has quenched my thirst for the kind of knowledge I yearn and is not studied in my field.
To study this book has been for me like reading the most beautiful of poetry.
Rodrigo Batres Kirkpatrick
Mty. Mexico
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Grad Students! Forget Goldstein, Use Menzel,
This review is from: Mathematical Physics (Dover Books on Physics) (Paperback)
I switched over from a BS in math to get a Ph.D. in physics. My grad courses used all of the standard texts: Goldstein for Mechanics, Jackson for Electrodynamics, etc. I did fine but I never felt like I mastered the material, especially the why and how of the mathematics.
Now, I just discovered Menzel's "Mathematical Physics" with a year left in my Ph.D. program. I wanted to review some of the basics I hadn't used since I started research full time and what a joy this book is!!! I fell in love with the first few pages. He succinctly introduces the basics of mechanics and analytical geometry in a few pages...and you understand clearly! I then discovered that he covers tensors and differential geometry. I can tell you from having looked at many books on General Relativity that Menzel's coverage of the math for General Relatively is excellent, insightful, and intuitive. My suggestion for grad students of physics is to pick up this little gem as a supplement to their assigned texts and to keep it handy as a refresher whenever needed.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic content, although the style is just a little dry for such an in-depth work,
By Ingrid Heyn "No man is an Iland, intire of it... (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mathematical Physics (Dover Books on Physics) (Paperback)
Perhaps I am unusual in expecting books dealing with mathematics, whether at the simple or the complex level, to be as elegantly and lyrically written as the equations contained within the book, but there it is. There is my personal bias. I do - contrary to the accepted serious-text style - want that beauty and poetry in the writing style.
Yet in spite of my faint bias, this book is worthy of a five-star review. In terms of presenting the information, exceptional clarity is maintained, but a couple of times I did feel my attention wandering. I forced my attention back to the book, and found that it rewards the patient reader. In terms of content? Terrific. Gauss' law is described and illustrated with equations and explanation as clearly as one could wish. Professor Menzel's discussion of the properties of spherical harmonics is unambiguous and thorough. In the classical electromagnetic theory section, the explication of electomagnetic force field calculations is step by step, clear, but not laboured. This is NOT a book for beginners, but for the serious student of the mathemetics required in classical mechanics, quantum theory, relativity and electromagnetic theory. For those who are looking for advanced mathematics for use in a variety of the fields wtihin the study of physics, this is a very good resource.
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