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CraigEllsworth  ·  3161 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, what do you want to learn?

Oh, I can handle the math if I learn it from the ground up, and I'd like to have a mathematical understanding of it. The problem I find is that physics teachings gets split into two kinds: mathless versions that try to explain by analogy and only give vague representations of what's really going on, and technical papers that assume you have a doctorate in physics or math and already know everything. I can never seem to find a middle ground which teaches you the math as it goes (or at least does so well), so ultimately for me to learn physics the way I want, I'd have to go back to school or deeply study it on my own.





tauta_krypta  ·  3161 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you read the Feynman Lectures on Physics? They roughly cover a three year university course, but are quite readable and are available for free online here. (I hear that the last one does quantum mechanics in a different way from how it's done now, so it might not be as good a bet as the first two.)

CraigEllsworth  ·  3161 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I shall have to give them a looksee. Thanks.

Shubhang  ·  3161 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm, how good are you at math? (As in can you solve diff equations with not much difficulty?)

CraigEllsworth  ·  3161 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was, but I'd need a refresher course in Calculus. Since I don't use it in everyday life, I forgot a lot of it.

aeromill  ·  3161 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If your algebra is sharp then you can start with basic Newtonian mechanics (what one would normally learn in high school). Check out Khan Academy's playlist.