# Modern Physics by Felder and Felder

3 Hacker News commenters recommended Modern Physics by Felder and Felder and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a well-organized freshman-level modern physics textbook that covers what students need. The original US edition is noted as quite expensive.

## Why people recommend it

- Covers what freshmen need, well-organized (2 comments): "the chapters have a good progression and are nicely setup" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478958)) "Freshman university textbooks have what you need." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478252))
- Pretty good, worth looking at (2 comments): "Felder & Felder's Modern Physics is pretty good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478222)) "would be a good place to look" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970430))

## What people warn about

- Original US edition is expensive (1 comments): "Felder & Felder is the original US edition which is quite expensive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488653))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Feynman, Leighton and Sands](https://hackerapproved.com/p/feynman-lectures-on-physics.md): 34 recommend
- [Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau and Lifshitz](https://hackerapproved.com/p/course-of-theoretical-physics.md): 8 recommend
- [Computational Physics (2nd Edition) by Giordano and Nakanishi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/computational-physics.md): 7 recommend
- [General Relativity by Robert Wald](https://hackerapproved.com/p/general-relativity.md): 6 recommend
- [Engineering Thermodynamics](https://hackerapproved.com/p/free-textbook-on-engineering-thermodynamics.md): 6 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Modern+Physics+by+Felder+and+Felder&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Modern Physics by Felder and Felder", https://hackerapproved.com/p/modern-physics/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).