Books

NOTE: Due to a system migration the mathematical equations within the following article are not currently functioning. I will endeavour to repair this as soon as possible Recently I have been reading through a newer edition of Young & Freedman’s University Physics, the main course textbook when I was a physics undergrad. Chapter 2 contains the following basic problem concerning 1-dimensional motion with constant acceleration. Since the book does not contain an answer or solution I decided to post a solution here....

Netronix and, purportedly also Onyx International, are developing 13.3 inch screen eReaders using eInk’s Mobius screen, as rivals to Sony’s expensive, PDF-only DPT-S1 Digital Paper. A new video shows the Netronix device prototype being displayed at a recent trade show: Unfortunately, it seems that without a major company to put up the money to manufacture, market, distribute and sell it the device won’t become available to consumers. That is a real shame!...

A collection of classic theoretical physics books, the Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau, Lifshitz, Pitaevskii and Berestetskii (English edition), is available online courtesy of the Internet archive. It seems that the last two books in the 10 book series are not available, perhaps because their later publication dates meaning they have a longer copyright term. For a discussion on the copyright details of the books and the original source for my links see this Reddit thread....