Questions tagged [resource-recommendation]
The resource-recommendation tag has no usage guidance.
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Could book recommendations for non-equilibrium statistical mechanics be reopened?
I was looking for books on non equilibrium statistical mechanics and found the question severely lacking in good answers. Also the reason for closing it was a "duplicate" question about ...
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Should I flag non-CW resource recommendation posts for moderator attention?
As far as I know, the current site policy we have is that resource recommendation questions should be community-wiki. Also, as far as I know, only moderators can make other people's questions ...
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How does community wiki get decided on?
What are typically the criteria for marking a post as Community Wiki, besides having too many edits? I ask because I had a previous question get labeled as CW; if I understand correctly this label ...
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Community Post for online courses similar to Book Recommendations
The overarching book recommendations answer has been quite helpful for a lot of people me included. Is there / should we make a similar one for online lectures? Or maybe add it to this answer. I mean ...
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Can I ask for specific books recommendations? using the [resource-recommendations] tag
I researched some question about book recommendations and I found a lot of books on Google Search, and here in physics.se the book recommendation question was closed because it is a broad question, ...
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What should be done with questions tagged [resource-recommendations] that are not actually asking for recommendations?
Continuing on from this discussion: Why was this answer made community wiki? — about a question that had the resource-recommendations tag.
As pointed out in Emilio Pisanty's answer, the main ...
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Why was this answer made community wiki?
This accepted answer I wrote a few hours ago was changed to a community wiki: Dynamics and radiation part of Jackson's book - reading advice
I realize the original question was not a particularly ...
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Can I answer resource recommendation questions by answer them directly?
For example, question Q care about problem A and need some material about problem A. Can I answer the question by solving problem A directly?
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What is the site policy on asking for references for concepts?
Sometimes I find a particular concept which I can't find much description about in the books I know. Is it accepted to ask for references in such scenarios?
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Distinction between [resource-recommendations] and [specific-reference] tag
Resource reference for Induction due to Time Varying Magnetic Fields (TVMF)
I asked the above question with the tag specific-reference. The purpose behind doing so is that the tag page suggests
if one ...
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Are book/reference identification questions on topic?
While reading the general policy on resource recommendation, I was not able to answer if paper/book identification qualifies as an on-topic question.
This is inspired by this Meta question that asks ...
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Is it time to unlock/vote to reopen old book recommendation questions?
Looking at old book recommendation questions, I noticed that some of them were closed or locked almost a decade ago. But our policy on book recommendations today is much more liberal. Is it time to ...
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Creating a separate platform for books and research papers?
Physics Stack Exchange is doing well in terms of helping thousands of students and researchers in spreading the understanding of physics, with its world best question-and-answer scheme, but making ...
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Resource recommendation for Physics
Like this recent post on Chemistry SE which is the collection for different types of resources for learning Chemistry ( which I find quite useful) do we have any such thing over here at Physics SE? If ...
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Help with book suggestions [duplicate]
If I am to ask for book suggestions on a certain topic, where should I ask? Should I ask on Physics Stack Exchange? If so, what tag should I use?
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Can we ask about book for studying? [duplicate]
I'm starting to study a new topic (spinors) and I don't know where I can study it, is it possible to ask for studying material?
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Why is this question asking about lectures closed as a duplicate?
This question is currently closed for being a duplicate of this question. The closed question asks about recommendations about video lectures for quantum lectures while the second question asks about ...
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Is it ok to ask for recommendations? [duplicate]
Generally, it is frowned upon on StackExchange to ask for recommendations, unless the site is specifically for that purpose.
Here on Physics, is it ok to ask for recommendations (e.g. for books that ...
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Where to ask for a software recommendation about light refraction in a 3D media?
I'm want to simulate and visualize (render) how would light refract inside a glass mug with complex geometry. Since I'm quite sure I cannot code myself something like that, I would ask for a software ...
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Applying resource-recommendation/link-only policies
In principle, questions tagged resource-recommendation that do little more than provide a link should be deleted like any other (almost) link-only answer, but is it really so? If we look at most ...
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A duplicate question
This question Good books to understand the basics of material science
Was marked as duplicate and redirected to Best Materials Science Introduction Book?
The thing is, the second question was ...
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Why is this question (still) closed?
H${}$i all. Please, have a look at What is a complete book for quantum field theory?. The post is a standard resource-recommendations request. In fact, it is the canonical post when it comes to QFT ...
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Are request-learning-path questions off topic? Why?
I was looking at a previous meta question regarding whether certain types of questions requesting a learning-path, or resource-recommendation, or any learning-related-things are off topic or not. I ...
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Reminder that Book Recommendations are on topic
Can whoever is flagging resource-recommendations as off-topic because they are primarily opinion based please stop doing so?
The community decided a long time ago that these types of questions are on-...
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How can I improve my post here so that it is not a duplicate?
My post here:
Book recommendation: Book on condensed matter physics focusing on numerical method in quantum system [duplicate]
How can I further improve my post so that it is not a duplicate?
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Should posts targetted at different complexity levels be marked as duplicate?
The question "What books an undergraduate needs to study to get a clear conception of rotational physics?" has been marked as a duplicate of "What are some good books for learning the concepts of ...
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How broad can a resource-recommendation question be? [duplicate]
I am looking for text books of the same style as 'Nuclear and Particle Physics' by W.S.C.Williams - that is, with clearly labeled definitions and sections of concise explanation. However, I am looking ...
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Is this what we intended for a resource recommendation?
Let's ignore all the other things that I find wrong with this question for the moment:
Is there a tool online that lets me convert acceleration-time graphs into velocity-time and position-time graphs?...
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Does the resource catalogue question still get updated?
I have been looking at Book recommendations which is a catalogue of links to resource recommendation questions. For me it has been (in combination with the individual resource recommendations that are ...
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Is Physics SE a good place to ask for textbook references?
I sponsor a high school astronomy club. Most of my students have completed AP1 Calculus BC and are ready for a calculus-based discussion of astronomical physics. I am searching for a source-book to ...
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Book recommendations: On-topic, on-topic but community wiki, or off-topic?
Yes, we've had this debate before. Unfortunately, there's no definite consensus to be found about their community wiki status:
Good list, bad list (from July 2013) has the top voted answer (with a ...
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The tag wiki for resource recommendations contradicts existing tag synonyms
The tag wiki for reference-request contains the following sentences:
Contrast this with the reference-request tag, which is for questions that ask for a specific resource, instead of any resource ...
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Books for fractals in physics - question undelete
I recently found this question
Fractals in physics. Suggest book titles
which is currently deleted (screenshot). I'm not sure it's a great question but it seems to matter to some people. When it ...
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I am looking for a online text editor just like physics stack exchange
I hope this question is suitable for discussing here.
I've been hanging around on PSE, I found the text editor of this site is very good and simple(Markdown+Mathjax). I hope to find an online editor ...
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Can we open "The Every Physicist Books Question" & "The Layman Books Question"?
Again, simple as.
I was very supprised and disapointed that these questions are locked. I think for students and mathematicans who may want to enter the field these questions are great and could be ...
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The Layman books question
This question was recently bumped to the top of the front page by a new answer: Books that every layman should read. I originally wanted to just recommend the new answer be deleted, but the question ...
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The intro-to-QM books question: reopen?
We have several questions asking for recommendations of books for beginner-level quantum mechanics. Many of them are closed as duplicates of this one:
What is a good introductory book on quantum ...
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Do we need/want an overarching books question?
The current tag wiki for the books - now resource-recommendation - tag includes, in its final paragraph, the request that
If you question is about resource-recommendations, please add your question ...
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Should we rename the books and reference-request tags?
Now that our new recommendation policy is in effect, I would like to propose a change that I think will alleviate some misuse of the associated tags:
books → resource-recommendation
reference-request ...
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Books banner: top or bottom?
This is a minor point about the implementation of our new book policy. One of the points it describes is the addition of a banner reading
Before answering, please see our policy on
resource ...
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Isn't "video documentaries about physics?" too broad?
This question was recently bumped to the front page: Video documentaries about physics?. It lay dormant for many years, which explains why it wasn't closed under the previous absolutely-not books ...
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Dealing with level of resources in requests
One of the things that bother me the most about book* recommendation requests is the endless stream of similar requests that can spout around any specific topic, for all the different possible reader ...
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New book policy: What should we do about the old questions?
We have a new book/resource recommendation policy.
However, it is of a form that it can only be applied to new questions. We have many old questions with answers that do not satisfy the policy, what ...
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Please volunteer for help editing recommendation questions [closed]
Recently, the book policy has been reevaluated, and Manishearth's proposal how to change it seems to be well enough accepted.
What is still missing for the new book policy to become reality, is some ...
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Are resource recommendations allowed?
What is the policy on asking for recommendations of books or resources on Physics Stack Exchange?
What is a resource recommendation question?
What sort of resource recommendation questions are ...
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Good list, bad list
The Stack Exchange model does not work well for "big list" questions, and these are banned network-wide for good reason. However, many of the other stack exchange sites allow or even encourage list ...
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Are journal requests on topic?
Along the lines of this question and the links to others within, there is some acceptance amongst the community when it comes to paper reference requests on a specific topic.
Would questions related ...
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Is this question on book recommendations allowed?
I would like to ask the following question, and would like to know if it is allowed:
What are the books similar to the books by David Griffiths, but in the following areas:
Classical Mechanics, ...
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