Is there a way to search just for things that are actually downloadable? My first 20 choices are not and it's getting a bit boring.
Cambridge University Press make their books free until May
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Re: Cambridge University Press make their books free until May
#12Is there a way to search just for things that are actually downloadable? My first 20 choices are not and it's getting a bit boring.
They are not downloadable. They are available for online viewing. Check the "Only show content I have access to" box.
Re: Cambridge University Press make their books free until May
#13Is there a way to search just for things that are actually downloadable? My first 20 choices are not and it's getting a bit boring.
They are not downloadable. They are available for online viewing. Check the "Only show content I have access to" box.
Ah, so it's pretty much useless unless you need access to them right now and have the time to spend. Useful to know, if annoying.
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#14This is wonderful! Does anyone have any particular recommendations (in any subject)?
Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies by Anil Rao https://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Particles-Rigid-Bodies-Syste... Dr. Rao’s systematic approach to solving dynamics problems is consistent and concise. He also has a companion set of lecture notes on YouTube. I remember it as one of the most challenging but rewarding aspects of my engineering school experience. All the principles are described mathematically in a coord…
I haven't read the book, but looking at the contents I'm surprised that the author hasn't introduced analytical mechanics anywhere in the book. This might be a good introductory book if you haven't taken a mechanics course before, but using Newton's laws for understanding the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies is a terrible idea.
> All the principles are described mathematically in a coordinate-free manner.
Newton's laws aren't coordinate free, e.g., Newton's second law written in polar coordinates would look different from Newton's laws in Cartesian coordinates. But, Lagrange's equations are coordinate-system independent.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are not downloadable. They are available for online viewing. Check the "Only show content I have access to" box.
Ah, so it's pretty much useless unless you need access to them right now and have the time to spend. Useful to know, if annoying.
To be fair, this is exactly CUP's intent.
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#16This is wonderful! Does anyone have any particular recommendations (in any subject)?
Uriel Frisch's Turbulence: The Legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov is an accessible introduction to one of the most important and still unsolved problem in classical physics. That book has over 7000 citations on Google Scholar.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/turbulence/FD8C5E35E5F1...
Re: Cambridge University Press make their books free until May
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies by Anil Rao https://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Particles-Rigid-Bodies-Syste... Dr. Rao’s systematic approach to solving dynamics problems is consistent and concise. He also has a companion set of lecture notes on YouTube. I remember it as one of the most challenging but rewarding aspects of my engineering school experience. All the principles are described mathematically in a coord…
I haven't read the book, but looking at the contents I'm surprised that the author hasn't introduced analytical mechanics anywhere in the book. This might be a good introductory book if you haven't taken a mechanics course before, but using Newton's laws for understanding the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies is a terrible idea. > All the principles are described mathematically in a coordinate-free manner. Newto…
This is definitely not an introductory level book. On the contrary, I wouldn't recommend it unless you've done at least Calc 3 since you'll need a strong grasp of vectors and derivatives. Newton's laws say e.g. the net force on an object (a Euclidean vector) is equal to its mass multiplied by its acceleration (also a Euclidean vector). That in itself is entirely coordinate free, sure it assumes that the vector is not a moment, but that's different from dictating a particular coordinate system.
You are right to say that if you wanted to express those laws in different coordinate systems, they would look different, but the key to this system is in essence that you leave any kind of coordinate projections till the very end (lazy evaluation, to put it in a computer science analogy), at which point much of the math is simplified due to term reduction, or various projections cancel each other out.
What is tempting to bring in from other materials is the notion that a vector has coordinates, which as far as this philosophy is concerned, they don't. A vector is the direction and magnitude per sé, devoid of the concept of an origin or any particular unit vectors with which you could represent that vector numerically. It's a mindfuck for sure, and it confused all the students in the class for a solid 3 weeks; that's why it's great.
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#18Their ebook reader sucks. You have to go back to the index to advance between chapters. Bad UX, but that's for a reason.
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#19This is wonderful! Does anyone have any particular recommendations (in any subject)?
Strategic Decisions is an excellent summary for those looking for starting points in the most well known business strategy models. A good compilation.
Re: Cambridge University Press make their books free until May
#20Not all books, only some. I remember one of their books [1], it was available for free PDF download for a few months. I downloaded the PDF, then later wanted to read it again and discovered I'd somehow misplaced the PDF. And now it isn't available for free download any more. I was hoping it might be included in this, but it isn't. [1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/atheism-and-agnostic...
Here you go: https://b-ok.cc/book/5260524/55d50b .
Z-lib (above) and Libgen are usually my go-to if I'm not sure I want to (or can't) purchase a book.