Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Dream university Date: 23 Sep 2025 19:00:39 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <10afh2l$3hcc0$1@dont-email.me> <10ag0tf$3l3a7$1@dont-email.me> <10agpn4$3qpp8$2@dont-email.me> <10ah9i6$3v8gp$1@dont-email.me> <10ai0bj$599f$1@dont-email.me> <7ZYzQ.83$Qzga.44@fx10.ams1> <74f4dk1ao8jl8jgg2faoqbia51n5oq9p5v@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hzYCpZXXvPw10P8tsUri3wWQckNuGY9fEZMx+3X0Jsz+EEa/gj Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fp89AaMGw4FIVz3PG0SibdKJizk= sha256:iRd7dXKu8qLIw+ugjOm7KoK3z5qzQDAA9kUstBC6ikU= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75001 On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:33:20 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote: > If you are interested in a particular subject, and read books about it, > and discover that the author of one of those books teaches at a > particular university, you might put that university at the top of the > list of one's you apply to to study that subject, and then dream of > going there and studing under Professor Whatisname, the greatest expert > on geology or archeology or medieval literature who ever walked this > earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Physics I don't know when the title and listing of authors changed but back in the day it was referred to as Resnick & Halliday and iirc the title was Physics for Students of Science and Engineering'. Robert Resnick was a professor at RPI but I never had him for a course. He authored several other texts during his tenure but I don't remember if he actively taught. The text was used for a 4 semester course all undergraduates were required to take. We had several other textbooks that were spiral bound and written by the professors teaching the course but afaik they were never used anyplace else. Cynically they were a source of additional income for the professors.