Reading List: Back of the envelope calculations, 2013
Reference books
- Scaling by , Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Qualitative Methods in Quantum Theory by (translated by A. J. Leggett), W. A. Benjamin, 1977.
- Fragile Objects by , Springer, 1996.
- How to Solve It by
- Surprises in Theoretical Physics by , Princeton University Press, 1979.
Reference Articles
- On Being the Right Size by , 1926. Mirrored from a copy of the article. The book in which this is collected is available here.
These books are good sources of problems which illustrate the kinds of methods which we will discuss. Other problems will be constructed from observations and more general reading.
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