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How to learn Physics from the ground up

A Guide to the intrepid adventurer.

Description

Physics, along side Mathematics are the two foundation bases of all things in science and in engineering, with them you can rip the rewards of understanding a little bit about almost everything. It will give you a direct line to the “language” in which the accumulated and curated human knowledge about the universe is written. It will expose to you many beautiful things about how the universe works, from the very small to the very large. A incredible journey awaits for you. One that you can dive in deep, knowing that there is always more to be learned. This is just a simple guide to help you move around. There is a little bit of Chemistry at the end of this guide.

Important and free resource

One of the most valuable resources in math and physics from school to college.

Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/

Motivation to Physics

Video - The Map of Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihywtixUYo
Video - The Map of Quantum Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAFAj3pzvAA
Video - The Map of Particle Physics - The Standard Model Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYcLuWHzfmE
Video - The Map of Superconductivity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD2M7P6dTVA
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
The Flying Circus of Physics by Jearl Walker
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics by Walter Lewin, Warren Goldstein
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry : Essays on the Universe and Our Place Within It by Neil de Grasse Tyson
The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK, Jim Al-Khalili
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
Powers of Ten by Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison

First school years in physics

Advanced Physics For You by Keith Johnson, Simmone Hewett, Sue Holt
Advanced Physics, 2th Ed by Steve Adams, Jonathan Allday

University or college Physics

The incredible video lectures of Prof. Walter Lewin

8.01x - MIT Physics I: Classical Mechanics https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro203puVhQsmCj9qhlFQ-As8e
8.02x - MIT Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro2314mKyUiOILaOC2hk6Pc3j
8.03 - MIT Physics III: Vibrations and Waves https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro22WeXM2QCKJm2NP_xHpGV89
8.01x - MIT Help Sessions https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro23IUORJBSDBH8AUWZ1mQBna
8.02x - MIT Help Sessions https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro200pTRGPkPp4kBEzFrSbZ3c
8.03 - MIT Help Sessions by Professor Wit Busza https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro23AZkDaZF8EoTb6toYYkp6W

General Physics

University Physics with Modern Physics 15th Ed by Hugh Young, Roger Freedman
Fundamentals of Physics Extended 10th Ed by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker
Fundamentals of Physics I: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics by R. Shankar
Fundamentals of Physics II: Electromagnetism, Optics, and Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar

Classical Mechanics

Classical Mechanics by John R. Taylor
An Introduction to Mechanics 2nd Ed by Daniel Kleppner, Robert Kolenkow
Classical Mechanics by Herbert Goldstein
Engineering Mechanics: Statics 14th Ed by Russell Hibbeler
Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics 14th Ed by Russell Hibbeler
Mechanics of Materials 10th Ed by Russell Hibbeler
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design 10th Ed by Richard Budynas, Keith Nisbett
A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors by Daniel A. Fleisch

Thermodynamics

Concepts in Thermal Physics 2nd Ed by Stephen J. Blundell, Katherine M. Blundell
Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach 9th Ed by Yunus Cengel, Michael Boles, Mehmet Kanoglu
Statistical Mechanics 4th Ed by R.K. Pathria, Paul D. Beale
Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications 5th Ed by Yunus Cengel, Afshin Ghajar

Fluid Dynamics

Fluid Mechanics 8th Ed by Frank White
Computational Fluid Dynamics by John Anderson
An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method 2nd Ed by H. Versteeg, W. Malalasekera

Optics

Optics 5th Ed by Eugene Hecht
Introduction to Modern Optics, 2th Ed - Dover Books by Grant R. Fowles

Acoustics

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics 5th Ed by David M. Howard, Jamie Angus
An Introduction to Acoustics - Dover Books by Robert H. Randall
Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications 3rd Ed by Allan D. Pierce
Fundamentals of Physical Acoustics by David T. Blackstock
A Student's Guide to Waves by Daniel Fleisch

Electromagnetism

Introduction to Electrodynamics 4th Ed by David J. Griffiths
Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Ed by Edward M. Purcell
A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations by Daniel Fleisch
Classical Electrodynamics 3rd Ed by John David Jackson

Relativity

Video - Special Relativity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTyAI1LbdgA
Video - What is General Relativity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYq774z4dws
Video - A new way to visualize General Relativity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc
Video - Visualizing Time Dilation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qQheJn-FHc
Video series - The Maths of General Relativity https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu7cY2CPiRjVY-VaUZ69bXHZr5QslKbzo
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity by Sean M. Carroll
A First Course in General Relativity 2nd Ed by Bernard Schutz
A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity by Robert B. Scott
Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, David I. Kaiser
Modern General Relativity: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Cosmology by Mike Guidry

Astrophysics

An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Bradley W. Carroll, Dale A. Ostlie
Modern Cosmology by Scott Dodelson, Fabian Schmidt
Cosmology by Steven Weinberg
Lectures on Astrophysics by Steven Weinberg
A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy by Daniel Fleisch, Julia Kregenow

For Radio Astronomy

See my guide on electronics. How to learn modern electronics https://github.com/joaocarvalhoopen/How_to_learn_modern_electronics

Celestial Mechanics

Video - Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8
Astro-rust - Open source program to study that implements the mathematic calculations of the next book, no Celestial Mechanics. https://github.com/saurvs/astro-rust
Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd Ed by Jean Meeus https://www.willbell.com/math/mc1.htm

Astronomical Morsels

Mathematical Astronomy Morsels by Jean Meeus https://www.willbell.com/math/mc16.htm
More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels by Jean Meeus https://www.willbell.com/math/moremorsels.htm
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III by Jean Meeus https://www.willbell.com/math/MC18.htm
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV by Jean Meeus https://www.willbell.com/math/MorselsIV.htm
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels V by Jean Meeus https://www.willbell.com/math/MorselsV.htm

Men made orbits and N-body problem.

Fundamentals of Astrodynamics 2nd Ed by Roger Bate, Donald Mueller, Jerry White, William Saylor

Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications, 2nd Ed by Nouredine Zettili
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 4th Ed by Paul Dirac
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 3rd Ed by David J. Griffiths
Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed by R. Shankar
The Quantum Cookbook: Mathematical Recipes for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics by Jim Baggott
Mécanique quantique: Tome 1 by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë
Mécanique quantique: Tome 2 by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë
Mécanique quantique: Tome 3, Fermions, bosons, photons, corrélations et intrication by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë

Modern Physics

Video - The Standard Model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44k7cMj_kpY
Video - The Symmetries of the universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_uHfSoOGA
Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics by Bruce A. Schumm
Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 2th Ed by John R. Taylor, Chris D. Zafiratos, Michael A. Dubson
Introduction to Elementary Particles 2nd Ed by David Griffiths
Modern Particle Physics by Mark Thomson
Modern Quantum Mechanics by J. J. Sakurai, Jim Napolitano
Modern Physics 3rd Ed by Kenneth S. Krane

Solid State Physics

The Oxford Solid State Basics by Steven H. Simon
Introduction to Solid State Physics 8th Ed by Charles Kittel
Solid State Physics by Neil W. Ashcroft, N. David Mermin

Condensed Matter

Modern Condensed Matter Physics by Steven M. Girvin, Kun Yang
Principles of Condensed Matter Physics by P. M. Chaikin, T. C. Lubensky

Quantum Field Theory

Video - Quantum Electrodynamics and Feynman Diagrams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FEU4mQWtE
Video - Quantum Field Theory visualized https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmG2ah5Df4g
Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster, Stephen J. Blundell
Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, 2nd Ed by A. Zee
Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory 2nd Ed by Robert D. Klauber
Solutions to Problems for Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory by Robert D. Klauber

Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists by Noson S. Yanofsky
Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction by N. David Mermin
Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction by Eleanor G. Rieffel, Wolfgang H. Polak
Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach by Jack D. Hidary
Programming Quantum Computers: Essential Algorithms and Code Samples by Eric R. Johnston, Nic Harrigan, Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia
Dancing with Qubits: How quantum computing works and how it can change the world by Robert S. Sutor

Numerical Analysis and Computational Physics

Numerical Methods for Engineers 8th Ed by Steven Chapra, Raymond Canale
Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press
Numerical Methods in Physics with Python by Alex Gezerlis
Computational Physics: Problem Solving with Python 3rd Ed by Rubin H. Landau, Manuel J Páez, Cristian C. Bordeianu
Applied Computational Physics by Joseph F. Boudreau, Eric S. Swanson

Problems with answers of Physics

Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Physics by Alvin Halpern
Schaum's Outlines of College Physics, 11th Ed by Eugene Hecht
Schaum's Outline of Applied Physics, 4th Ed by Arthur Beiser
Schaum's Outline of Physics for Engineering and Science, 4th Ed by Michael Browne
Schaums Outline of Thermodynamics for Engineers, 4th Ed by Merle Potter, Craig Somerton
Schaum's Outline of Electromagnetics, 5th Ed by Mahmood Nahvi, Joseph Edminister
Schaum's Outline of Optics by Eugene Hecht
Schaum's Outline of Fluid Dynamics, 3rd Ed by William Hughes, John Brighton
Schaum's Outline of Modern Physics 2nd Ed by Ronald Gautreau
Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed by Yoav Peleg, Reuven Pnini, Elyahu Zaarur, Eugene Hecht

Mathematic books for advanced Physics

See my guide on Mathematics. How to learn Mathematics from the ground up https://github.com/joaocarvalhoopen/How_to_learn_Mathematics_from_ground_up

Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide 3rd Ed by K. F. Riley
Student Solution Manual 1th Ed for Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering 3th Ed by K. F. Riley
Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences 3rd Ed by Mary L. Boas
Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, Solutions Manual 2nd Ed by Mary L. Boas
Mathematical Methods for Physicists by George B. Arfken, Hans J. Weber, Frank E. Harris

Landau's Course of Theoretical Physics - 10 volumes

Course of Theoretical Physics - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics

Vol. 1 - Mechanics, 3rd Ed by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz
Vol. 2 - The Classical Theory of Fields, 4th Ed by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz
Vol. 3 - Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory, 3rd Ed by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz
Vol. 4 - Quantum Electrodynamics, 2nd Ed by V. B. Berestetskii, E. M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii
Vol. 5 - Statistical Physics, 3rd Ed by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz
Vol. 6 - Fluid Mechanics, 2nd Ed by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz
Vol. 7 - Theory of Elasticity, 3rd Ed by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz
Vol. 8 - Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, 2nd Ed by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, L.P. Pitaevskii
Vol. 9 - Statistical Physics, Part 2: Theory of the Condensed State, 1st Ed by E. M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii
Vol. 10 - Physical Kinetics, 1st Ed by E. M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii

The great Richard P. Feynman

Motivation to Physics and to know the incredible mem he was

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

Lectures in Physics

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol 1, 2 and 3, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition by Richard P. Feynman , Robert B. Leighton, et al. https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman , Robert B. Leighton, et al.
Feynman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-Solving Supplement to The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Phillips Feynman, Michael A. Gottlieb, Ralph Leighton, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman, Jeffrey Robbins
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman, Frank Wilczek
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Richard P. Feynman, Michelle Feynman
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman, A. Zee
Feynman Lectures On Computation by Richard P. Feynman

Chemistry

First years Chemistry

Advanced Chemistry For You by Lawrie Ryan
Advanced Chemistry by Michael Clugston, Rosalind Flemming
Calculations in AS / A Level Chemistry by Jim Clark

College Chemistry

Chemistry: The Central Science 14th Ed by Theodore Brown, H. LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew Stoltzfus
Organic Chemistry 9th Ed by Leroy Wade, Jan Simek

Problems with answers of Chemistry

Schaum's 3, 000 Solved Problems In Chemistry by David Goldberg
Schaum's Outline of Beginning Chemistry, 4th Ed by David Goldberg
Schaum's Outline of College Chemistry, 10th Ed by Jerome Rosenberg, Lawrence Epstein, Peter Krieger
Schaum's Outline of Organic Chemistry by Herbert Meislich, Howard Nechamkin

All my other guides

The links to all my guides are in: Guides on Linux - Programming - Embedded - Electronics - Aeronautics https://github.com/joaocarvalhoopen/Guides_Linux-Programming-Electronics-Aeronautics

Have fun!

Best regards, João Nuno Carvalho