{"id":9165,"date":"2011-07-08T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2011-07-08T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T08:00:51","slug":"9165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9165","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Computer, so it Must be Right. Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bestintrobook.com\/\">The best intro book for any topic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course I checked out <a href=\"http:\/\/bestintrobook.com\/books\/physics\">physics<\/a> and in addition to Larry Gonick&#8217;s <em>The Cartoon Guide to Physics<\/em>, it gave a bunch of books on various topics within physics.  I have read none of these books, so I have no basis for endorsing or disputing the choices; I don&#8217;t know if &#8220;Best Intro&#8221; means they were going for pop-sci books for a general audience or intro textbooks for the student or serious amateur.  The Cartoon Guide might indicate one way \u2014\u00a0I&#8217;m not sure \u2014 but the other titles are or seem more like textbooks.  The closest I can come to a recommendation is noting that the QM book is by David J Griffiths, I&#8217;ve heard good things about it, and his Electrodynamics textbook is very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best intro book for any topic Of course I checked out physics and in addition to Larry Gonick&#8217;s The Cartoon Guide to Physics, it gave a bunch of books on various topics within physics. I have read none of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-misc","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}