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![]() | On 18 February 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from List of physics textbooks to List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. The result of the discussion was moved. |
These lists may be useful, but can anyone give insight into why this particular pair of topics is linked in a single article? I can understand that separate articles for classical and quantum mechanics books could be too small, but why then don't we have a broader page like "List of textbooks in the core physics curriculum", with sections on classical mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and maybe others? What's special about these two?
[Also, and maybe this should be a separate section, I can see a case for finer gradation between levels than is shown here. Most notably, Kleppner and Kolenkow is an intro level book, though one of the most sophisticated of those. It's not really comparable to the rest of the books on its list. Similarly, I think of Eisberg & Resnick as targeting a "first course about quantum" audience, where most of the rest of both lists are aimed at upper-level undergraduates.)] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steuard ( talk • contribs) 19:32, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, these three lists have notability problems as cohesive wholes and are rather unencyclopedic. They provide a valuable resource, however, so I am proposing that we rework all of these pages as List of undergraduate physics textbooks and List of graduate physics textbooks. It is easy to establish notability for each of these lists and use subsections and tables to make it easy to browse. This will allow both of those lists to be candidates for featured list status in the future, rather than random AfD discussions when noticed. In addition, it will allow for general physics books to be added to the undergrad page and specialty physics books to the grad page. Because there is nothing cited in this article and no prose, there is nothing to merge or keep and the name is not useful. I therefore want to propose it for deletion if everyone is on board with that plan. (We can create new redirects for each after) Let me know what you think, I'll wait a week or so before doing anything to allow for comments. Thanks! Footlessmouse ( talk) 23:18, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
The word "on" in the title of this article should be changed to "in" for consistency with the other lists of textbooks. Michael Lee Baker ( talk) 14:19, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 ( talk) 15:46, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
List of physics textbooks → List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics – Original name suited page better. Nerd271 ( talk) 18:05, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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![]() | On 18 February 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from List of physics textbooks to List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. The result of the discussion was moved. |
These lists may be useful, but can anyone give insight into why this particular pair of topics is linked in a single article? I can understand that separate articles for classical and quantum mechanics books could be too small, but why then don't we have a broader page like "List of textbooks in the core physics curriculum", with sections on classical mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and maybe others? What's special about these two?
[Also, and maybe this should be a separate section, I can see a case for finer gradation between levels than is shown here. Most notably, Kleppner and Kolenkow is an intro level book, though one of the most sophisticated of those. It's not really comparable to the rest of the books on its list. Similarly, I think of Eisberg & Resnick as targeting a "first course about quantum" audience, where most of the rest of both lists are aimed at upper-level undergraduates.)] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steuard ( talk • contribs) 19:32, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, these three lists have notability problems as cohesive wholes and are rather unencyclopedic. They provide a valuable resource, however, so I am proposing that we rework all of these pages as List of undergraduate physics textbooks and List of graduate physics textbooks. It is easy to establish notability for each of these lists and use subsections and tables to make it easy to browse. This will allow both of those lists to be candidates for featured list status in the future, rather than random AfD discussions when noticed. In addition, it will allow for general physics books to be added to the undergrad page and specialty physics books to the grad page. Because there is nothing cited in this article and no prose, there is nothing to merge or keep and the name is not useful. I therefore want to propose it for deletion if everyone is on board with that plan. (We can create new redirects for each after) Let me know what you think, I'll wait a week or so before doing anything to allow for comments. Thanks! Footlessmouse ( talk) 23:18, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
The word "on" in the title of this article should be changed to "in" for consistency with the other lists of textbooks. Michael Lee Baker ( talk) 14:19, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 ( talk) 15:46, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
List of physics textbooks → List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics – Original name suited page better. Nerd271 ( talk) 18:05, 18 February 2024 (UTC)