So you want to learn physics (2021)
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So you want to learn physics (2021)
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Re: So you want to learn physics (2021)
#2(2021)
anything new here?
Re: So you want to learn physics (2021)
#3A point that's rightfully emphasized by the author:
> Solving problems is the only way to understand physics. There's no way around it.
This generalizes well to other fields. I don't want to discourage anybody from trying to educate themselves in a difficult field (be it physics or something else), but that's a very common and immediately visible problem with autodidacts. If you haven't worked through enough hard problems you lack the intuition that ties together theory.
Re: So you want to learn physics (2021)
#4I see no mention of Landau and Lifshitz! On a less joking tone, I don't know many of these books. I was kinda surprised. guess i am outdated.
Re: So you want to learn physics (2021)
#5(2021) anything new here?
All of it, to the users who haven't seen it posted here before.
Re: So you want to learn physics (2021)
#6A point that's rightfully emphasized by the author: > Solving problems is the only way to understand physics. There's no way around it. This generalizes well to other fields. I don't want to discourage anybody from trying to educate themselves in a difficult field (be it physics or something else), but that's a very common and immediately visible problem with autodidacts. If you haven't worked through enough hard pro…
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Re: So you want to learn physics (2021)
#7This guide does contain the books that are usually recommended in a university course setting! So, it will require significant amount of time and effort to master it. One of the series of books that physicists religiously stick to is Landau and Lifschitz. But my experience has been that it's worth it only if you already have some basic understanding.
Re: So you want to learn physics (2021)
#8I see no mention of Landau and Lifshitz! On a less joking tone, I don't know many of these books. I was kinda surprised. guess i am outdated.
Landafschitz is kinda hard to self teach from. Fantastic supplement, though
Re: So you want to learn physics (2021)
#9This guide does contain the books that are usually recommended in a university course setting! So, it will require significant amount of time and effort to master it. One of the series of books that physicists religiously stick to is Landau and Lifschitz. But my experience has been that it's worth it only if you already have some basic understanding.
I never got on very well with Landau and Lifschitz it's pretty intense. I mostly used pdf lecture notes from different courses. They can be a bit mixed but many are very good quality and you can easily pick up a couple for the same topic if you don't understand some part of one of them
Re: So you want to learn physics (2021)
#10I dropped out of Physics back in the day, because I loved computers a bit more, and now that I'm kind of fed up with computers I'd like to remove the thorn and do something like this.
But I find that so much time has passed that I would need to brush up parts of my high school maths first, and this kind of discourages me before even starting.