Is it just me or is this shit insanely difficult?
It's insanely difficult. You were expecting the combination of statistics, physics, and multi-body problems to be simple?
>>17075932Kardar is a brutal textbook. It’s not just you. Grad statmech is mostly a weed-out course tbqh
>>17075932Stupids belong on plebbit
>>17075932stat mech is notoriously hard
>>17075932Probably do problems, instead of shitposting on /sci/. Imo there are many issues when learning grad-level physics subjects:1. the books are shittier2. notations between books are inconsistent3. everyone is teaching different things4. the writers and profs tend to push stuff relevant to their nonsensical research5. it's harder to find problem (book) with solutions6. the problems tend to be a chain one, where you need to transform it to another intermediate problem first, possibly multiple timesIt'd be easier if you're good with the basics (review undergrad stat mech), have good problem solving ability (read and apply stuff like polya books, do an undergrad stat mech problem book), and are mentally strong.
>>17075932have Claude solve the problems and explain the solutions to you
>>17077705...if you want to spend the full time but learn 1% of what you were supposed to
Particle Physics is becoming convoluted with continuous progression models. Researchers are overlooking DSI (Discrete State Intergration)https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23455272
>>17075932Chaotic Advection, not Chaotic adhesion like I said earlier. In regards to Navier-Stokes.Pretty sure it's applied to magnetic monopole physics and the like. I bet it's these types of magnetic currents that keep our planet aligned with Polaris
>>17075932i mean, i haven't read that one since 9th grade but i don't remember it being too challenging. i'll have to pull it off the shelf and give it another look
>>17078701oh fuck will definitely check this out
great textbook though. read parts of it (the easy ones) in undergrad when trying to learn stat mech properly. haven't touched stat mech since because the non-easy parts seemed extremely difficult
>>17078701nice
>>17078701>>17078748The book is not a particle physics textbook. It’s a statmech textbook, with examples that are only tangentially related to particle physics because it needs to deal with the fact that bosons and fermions from basic QM follow different statistical rules. There is nothing in the textbook at all that mentions e.g. top quarks or higgs bosons or tau neutrinos, which are more what proper particle physics textbooks will get autistic about. Basically the only relevant fact the books use about particle physics is that you can model particles either as classical particles, as half-integer spin particles, or as integer (or 0) spin particles and the rest of particle physics is irrelevant in KardarHe has another textbook called “Statistical Physics of Fields” so really in context of the two books it is just one half of a “Statistical Physics of Everything” collection
>>17077705Back in my day we bought the solutions manuel for the answers!
