Applications of Classical Physics

I will probably date myself with this comment, but in my highschool days there used to be this TV series called the Mechanical Universe produced by Caltech. It was so fantastically good, perhaps peak pedagogy for its time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5G0dk-XGtA5cZ&amp;si=ejT8_7Dma0vWOodH" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5G0dk...</a>

For those who would like a print version, this manuscript eventually got published as <i>Modern Classical Physics</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;press.princeton.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;hardcover&#x2F;9780691159027&#x2F;modern-classical-physics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;press.princeton.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;hardcover&#x2F;9780691159027&#x2F;mo...</a>

I just looked through the diffraction chapter and some chapters I&#x27;m much less familiar with. This is an incredible ~graduate level text for these subjects. I&#x27;ve been looking for something like this for a while! Thanks!

Skimmed through chapter 1. That sounds like the way I was taught this subject in high school, nothing revolutionary. Not sure why they&#x27;re talking so much about its brilliance

Interesting that relativity is included here; to me it&#x27;s one of the main things separating modern physics from classical.

For an idea of how far the average US physics education has been dumbed-down in the past three decades, I doubt a 3rd year US-educated physics graduate student could pass a test on any of the chapters.