I had a day off on Monday so my wetware got confused and thought it’s only Tuesday. That’s why I don’t have anything prepared for the Midweek-Discussion. I call a lazy day and just ask y’all what your favorite “normie book” is. We’ve seen a few already on April 1st but where they your favorite?
I would start with my favorite but I cannot in good conscience tell you about it because it will never get to the last book in the trilogy and letting readers hang is probably somewhere listed in the Geneva Conventions as a war crime. It’s been over a decade and I still made myself depressed again just thinking about it right now, so go on and tell me about your favorites to cheer me up.
Looking through that table of contents, that textbook covers a lot of ground. When I did undergrad, waves and oscillations were kept out of the intro course and held back until the second year Mechanics course (iirc, I don’t have my first-year textbook any longer). This was mainly because they are easier to work with mathematically if you are already familiar with differential equations. Looking briefly at the damped oscillations chapter (15.6), they get around not learning differential equations by simply presenting a solution (eg 15.28) and having the reader verify that it works.
Are you pursuing physics? As somebody with a Physics PhD, I rarely come across others in the field (I now work in pharma, so mainly deal with biochem and chemical engineers).
Sadly or gladly I dropped out depending on the viewpoint.
The professor sometimes got different flow of topics depending on the demand. The three volumes would be covered in my would be engineering degree.