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They interviewed many famous physicists. Mostly autobiographical, but unlike in books, the interviewees don't have time to edit the answer, so the reading experience is generally better.
What is a good resource to learn physics online? Mostly interested in understanding how stuff works not really interested in solving physics problems.
What is a good resource to learn physics online? Mostly interested in understanding how stuff works not really interested in solving physics problems.
You wont understand how stuff "works" if you cannot solve problems, at least not in any meaningful sense.If you want a superficial knowledge (Nothing wrong with that) you have youtube channels or there are conceptual physics textbooks for non science majors.
I get Physics Today every month (since I'm an APS member). One of my favorite things about it, strangely, is the ads.
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You wont understand how stuff "works" if you cannot solve problems, at least not in any meaningful sense.If you want a superficial knowledge (Nothing wrong with that) you have youtube channels or there are conceptual physics textbooks for non science majors.
I have to agree with this. There is no harm in absorbing qualitative accounts of various physics ideas, and that can be very interesting. But you won't really know what it's all about until you swim in the mathematical details. It sort of like listening to somebody describing programming, without ever writing a computer program.
What is a good resource to learn physics online? Mostly interested in understanding how stuff works not really interested in solving physics problems.
I get Physics Today every month (since I'm an APS member). One of my favorite things about it, strangely, is the ads.
The ads are really useful. (So are the Quick Studies, Back Matter, and articles in general. It's a great magazine.) I grew up with Physics Today, too, and the ads really shaped my knowledge of available instrumentation before I even knew what that was. I used to marvel that people would pay megabucks for what appeared to be a white box with three electrical connections, a power plug, and a power-on light. Now, when I…