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Originally Posted by Suzy_A
AFLatU and other similar books all see to be written by people that did high-school or first year uni physics and no more. As a result, they usually have a highly distorted view of what physics is - basically high school and 1st year (and 2nd) uni physics is usually WRONG! It mostly covers classical or newtonion physics and as such is only a very rough approximation to more advanced quantum mechanics and relativity.
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That's why GR and Quantum Mechanics should be studied as Maths subjects
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I remember at Uni that 3rd year Physics students were encouraged to take up Maths units for Quantum Mechanics and GR in order to
really understand the theory.
Steven