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0 pointsnilkn11y ago0 comments

I haven't read it, and it may be too advanced for this purpose, but Landau's books are generally held in extremely high regard and volume six of his Course of Theoretical Physics is on fluid mechanics.

For what it's worth, volumes two and three cover electrodynamics and quantum mechanics, respectively.

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sampo11y ago

> Landau's books

Landau's presentation is extremely condensed. Griffiths is much more friendly towards the reader.

I would compare Landau to Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Some people do read them, but the rest of us just hold them in extremely high regard :-).

jeffwass11y ago

The Landau Lifshitz series is absolutely amazing. It works so well with my brain, entirely concise with just enough textual clarification as needed.

Eg, volume 1 is classical mechanics. By page 3 or so you e already derived the Lagrangian equations of motion.

jarvist11y ago

Landau/Lifshitz are freely available on the Internet archive:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22L.D.+Landa...

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