Is Lautrup textbook for me?

student J.J. “3-j” Jensen asks:

I am a poor student who has not paid for a CD in a decade. How much does this textbook cost? I hear it is a size of a phonebook.

Predrag's answer:

I will follow Lautrup's book as posted on the course schedule, so if you are in the course, you can download the chapters and read the material.


Physics of Continuous Matter Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World 2nd Edition, Copyright (C) Benny Lautrup 2009 - ask Predrag for login info
Front matter Title Contents Chapters Continuous Matter Pressure Buoyancy and Stability Hydrostatic Shapes Surface Tension Stress Strain Hooke's Law Basic Elastostatics Slender Rods Computational Elastostatics Appendices Newtonian mechanics Cartesian coordinates Field calculus Curvilinear coordinates Literature Index

Predrag's answer: The phonebook-size version is actually rather pretty, and if you can sacrifice this winter's Aspen sky tour for a worthy cause, buy this book.