Originally Posted by Mathew Im trying to learn more about physics to understand in more detail what is happening in chapter 2, so looking for a basic physics book that will help me understand laws of force and motion, centrifugal force...etc in much more detail than I know now. Im also looking for suggestions also for a book on anatomy and anatomic movement - about muscles, how they work, bone structure...etc... preferably with a 'sport' context.One of the classic entry level (undergraduate) physics books is Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday and Resnick (multiple editions). It does require basic calculus I think and will be $$$$ new. I would suggest getting one used. Any edition should be fine. Even graduate students go back and look up problems and concepts out of Halliday and Resnick. Caveat: I never took a course out of the book or owned it, however everyone I knew in grad school had a copy. I was a dummy to never have gotten one.
Any suggestions would be appreciated...
Originally Posted by ThinkingPlus One of the classic entry level (undergraduate) physics books is Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday and Resnick (multiple editions). It does require basic calculus I think and will be $$$$ new. I would suggest getting one used. Any edition should be fine. Even graduate students go back and look up problems and concepts out of Halliday and Resnick. Caveat: I never took a course out of the book or owned it, however everyone I knew in grad school had a copy. I was a dummy to never have gotten one.Ahh....my favourite physics book as an Undergrad. To this day I still have all my books from my Undgrad years and this is the one that I keep on going back to.
Originally Posted by alex_chung Ahh....my favourite physics book as an Undergrad. To this day I still have all my books from my Undgrad years and this is the one that I keep on going back to.That is what every physics grad that I have known has said. They go back to it time and time again. It was heavily used during preparation for qualifying exams. I was unfortunate to never have taken a class with H&R as the required text. Maybe one of these days I'll go buy it anyway. I might find use for it even today!
Alex
Originally Posted by ThinkingPlus That is what every physics grad that I have known has said. They go back to it time and time again. It was heavily used during preparation for qualifying exams. I was unfortunate to never have taken a class with H&R as the required text. Maybe one of these days I'll go buy it anyway. I might find use for it even today!Yea, the weird thing is that I read it even though my job doesn't entail any physics at all. I enjoy physics more now that I ever did at University.
Originally Posted by Mathew Im also looking for suggestions also for a book on anatomy and anatomic movement - about muscles, how they work, bone structure...etc... preferably with a 'sport' context.How about a golf specific one:
Any suggestions would be appreciated...