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Luke Tan
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I've started reading Goldstein Classical Mechanics recently and I've found the problems inside to be much more difficult than what I'm used to. Before this, I used to read books like David Morin's Introduction to Classical Mechanics, with problems that had extremely detailed solutions and where the general procedure was very well detailed in the earlier chapter.
However, on encountering Goldstein's book, which have very few examples and a varied range of questions, I'm starting to find learning is much more difficult than before. I can't turn to the first few lines for the solutions for hints, or look to the earlier sections in the hope that the solution procedure is similar than before.
What should I do when I encounter a difficult problem? Should I attempt to solve the problem for many days? What if I just can't make progress?
However, on encountering Goldstein's book, which have very few examples and a varied range of questions, I'm starting to find learning is much more difficult than before. I can't turn to the first few lines for the solutions for hints, or look to the earlier sections in the hope that the solution procedure is similar than before.
What should I do when I encounter a difficult problem? Should I attempt to solve the problem for many days? What if I just can't make progress?