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

1. Video - The Map of Physics
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihywtixUYo

2. Video - The Map of Quantum Physics
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAFAj3pzvAA

3. Video - The Map of Particle Physics - The Standard Model Explained
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYcLuWHzfmE

4. Video - The Map of Superconductivity
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD2M7P6dTVA

5. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
   by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

6. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
   by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

7. The Flying Circus of Physics
   by Jearl Walker

8. 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

9. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry : Essays on the Universe and Our Place Within It
   by Neil de Grasse Tyson

10. The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    by DK, Jim Al-Khalili

11. The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    by DK

12. Powers of Ten
    by Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison

First school years in physics

1. Advanced Physics For You
   by Keith Johnson, Simmone Hewett, Sue Holt

2. 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

1. University Physics with Modern Physics 15th Ed
   by Hugh Young, Roger Freedman

2. Fundamentals of Physics Extended 10th Ed
   by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker

3. Fundamentals of Physics I: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics
   by R. Shankar

4. Fundamentals of Physics II: Electromagnetism, Optics, and Quantum Mechanics
   by R. Shankar

Classical Mechanics

1. Classical Mechanics
   by John R. Taylor

2. An Introduction to Mechanics 2nd Ed
   by Daniel Kleppner, Robert Kolenkow

3. Classical Mechanics
   by Herbert Goldstein

4. Engineering Mechanics: Statics 14th Ed
   by Russell Hibbeler

5. Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics 14th Ed
   by Russell Hibbeler

6. Mechanics of Materials 10th Ed
   by Russell Hibbeler

7. Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design 10th Ed
   by Richard Budynas, Keith Nisbett

8. A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors
   by Daniel A. Fleisch

Thermodynamics

1. Concepts in Thermal Physics 2nd Ed
   by Stephen J. Blundell, Katherine M. Blundell

2. Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach 9th Ed
   by Yunus Cengel, Michael Boles, Mehmet Kanoglu

3. Statistical Mechanics 4th Ed
   by R.K. Pathria, Paul D. Beale

4. Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications 5th Ed
   by Yunus Cengel, Afshin Ghajar

Fluid Dynamics

1. Fluid Mechanics 8th Ed
   by Frank White

2. Computational Fluid Dynamics
   by John Anderson

3. An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method 2nd Ed
   by H. Versteeg, W. Malalasekera

Optics

1. Optics 5th Ed
   by Eugene Hecht

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

Acoustics

1. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics 5th Ed
   by David M. Howard, Jamie Angus

2. An Introduction to Acoustics - Dover Books
   by Robert H. Randall

3. Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications 3rd Ed
   by Allan D. Pierce

4. Fundamentals of Physical Acoustics
   by David T. Blackstock

5. A Student's Guide to Waves
   by Daniel Fleisch

Electromagnetism

1. Introduction to Electrodynamics 4th Ed
   by David J. Griffiths

2. Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Ed
   by Edward M. Purcell

3. A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations
   by Daniel Fleisch

4. Classical Electrodynamics 3rd Ed
   by John David Jackson

Relativity

1. Video - Special Relativity
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTyAI1LbdgA

2. Video - What is General Relativity?
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYq774z4dws

3. Video - A new way to visualize General Relativity
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc

4. Video - Visualizing Time Dilation
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qQheJn-FHc

5. Video series - The Maths of General Relativity
   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu7cY2CPiRjVY-VaUZ69bXHZr5QslKbzo

6. Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity
   by Sean M. Carroll

7. A First Course in General Relativity 2nd Ed
   by Bernard Schutz

8. A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity
   by Robert B. Scott

9. Gravitation
   by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, David I. Kaiser

10. Modern General Relativity: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Cosmology
    by Mike Guidry

Astrophysics

1. An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics
   by Bradley W. Carroll, Dale A. Ostlie

2. Modern Cosmology
   by Scott Dodelson, Fabian Schmidt

3. Cosmology
   by Steven Weinberg

4. Lectures on Astrophysics
   by Steven Weinberg

5. 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

1. Video - Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8

2. 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

3. Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd Ed
   by Jean Meeus
   https://www.willbell.com/math/mc1.htm

Astronomical Morsels

4. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels
   by Jean Meeus
   https://www.willbell.com/math/mc16.htm

5. More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels
   by Jean Meeus
   https://www.willbell.com/math/moremorsels.htm

6. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III
   by Jean Meeus
   https://www.willbell.com/math/MC18.htm

7. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV
   by Jean Meeus
   https://www.willbell.com/math/MorselsIV.htm

8. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels V
   by Jean Meeus
   https://www.willbell.com/math/MorselsV.htm

Men made orbits and N-body problem.

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

Quantum Mechanics

1. Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications, 2nd Ed
   by Nouredine Zettili

2. The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 4th Ed
   by Paul Dirac

3. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 3rd Ed
   by David J. Griffiths

4. Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed
   by R. Shankar

5. The Quantum Cookbook: Mathematical Recipes for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
   by Jim Baggott

6. Mécanique quantique: Tome 1
   by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë

7. Mécanique quantique: Tome 2
   by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë

8. Mécanique quantique: Tome 3, Fermions, bosons, photons, corrélations et intrication
   by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë

Modern Physics

1. Video - The Standard Model
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44k7cMj_kpY

2. Video - The Symmetries of the universe
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_uHfSoOGA

3. Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
   by Bruce A. Schumm

4. Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 2th Ed
   by John R. Taylor, Chris D. Zafiratos, Michael A. Dubson

5. Introduction to Elementary Particles 2nd Ed
   by David Griffiths

6. Modern Particle Physics
   by Mark Thomson

7. Modern Quantum Mechanics
   by J. J. Sakurai, Jim Napolitano

8. Modern Physics 3rd Ed
   by Kenneth S. Krane

Solid State Physics

1. The Oxford Solid State Basics
   by Steven H. Simon

2. Introduction to Solid State Physics 8th Ed
   by Charles Kittel

3. Solid State Physics
   by Neil W. Ashcroft, N. David Mermin

Condensed Matter

1. Modern Condensed Matter Physics
   by Steven M. Girvin, Kun Yang

2. Principles of Condensed Matter Physics
   by P. M. Chaikin, T. C. Lubensky

Quantum Field Theory

1. Video - Quantum Electrodynamics and Feynman Diagrams
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FEU4mQWtE

2. Video - Quantum Field Theory visualized
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmG2ah5Df4g

3. Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
   by Tom Lancaster, Stephen J. Blundell

4. Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, 2nd Ed
   by A. Zee

5. Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory 2nd Ed
   by Robert D. Klauber

6. Solutions to Problems for Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory
   by Robert D. Klauber

Quantum Computing

1. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists
   by Noson S. Yanofsky

2. Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction
   by N. David Mermin

3. Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction
   by Eleanor G. Rieffel, Wolfgang H. Polak

4. Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach
   by Jack D. Hidary

5. Programming Quantum Computers: Essential Algorithms and Code Samples
   by Eric R. Johnston, Nic Harrigan, Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia

6. Dancing with Qubits: How quantum computing works and how it can change the world
   by Robert S. Sutor

Numerical Analysis and Computational Physics

1. Numerical Methods for Engineers 8th Ed
   by Steven Chapra, Raymond Canale

2. Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing
   by William H. Press

3. Numerical Methods in Physics with Python
   by Alex Gezerlis

4. Computational Physics: Problem Solving with Python 3rd Ed
   by Rubin H. Landau, Manuel J Páez, Cristian C. Bordeianu

5. Applied Computational Physics
   by Joseph F. Boudreau, Eric S. Swanson

Problems with answers of Physics

1. Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Physics
   by Alvin Halpern

2. Schaum's Outlines of College Physics, 11th Ed
   by Eugene Hecht

3. Schaum's Outline of Applied Physics, 4th Ed
   by Arthur Beiser

4. Schaum's Outline of Physics for Engineering and Science, 4th Ed
   by Michael Browne

5. Schaums Outline of Thermodynamics for Engineers, 4th Ed
   by Merle Potter, Craig Somerton

6. Schaum's Outline of Electromagnetics, 5th Ed
   by Mahmood Nahvi, Joseph Edminister

7. Schaum's Outline of Optics
   by Eugene Hecht

8. Schaum's Outline of Fluid Dynamics, 3rd Ed
   by William Hughes, John Brighton

9. Schaum's Outline of Modern Physics 2nd Ed
   by Ronald Gautreau

10. 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

1. Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide 3rd Ed
   by K. F. Riley

2. Student Solution Manual 1th Ed for Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering 3th Ed
   by K. F. Riley

3. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences 3rd Ed
   by Mary L. Boas

4. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, Solutions Manual 2nd Ed
   by Mary L. Boas

5. 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
  

1. Vol. 1 - Mechanics, 3rd Ed
   by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz

2. Vol. 2 - The Classical Theory of Fields, 4th Ed
   by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz

3. Vol. 3 - Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory, 3rd Ed
   by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz

4. Vol. 4 - Quantum Electrodynamics, 2nd Ed
   by V. B. Berestetskii, E. M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii

5. Vol. 5 - Statistical Physics, 3rd Ed
   by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz

6. Vol. 6 - Fluid Mechanics, 2nd Ed
   by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz

7. Vol. 7 - Theory of Elasticity, 3rd Ed
   by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz

8. Vol. 8 - Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, 2nd Ed
   by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, L.P. Pitaevskii

9. Vol. 9 - Statistical Physics, Part 2: Theory of the Condensed State, 1st Ed
   by E. M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii

10. 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

1. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
   by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

2. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
   by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

Lectures in Physics

3. 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/

4. Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics
   by Richard P. Feynman , Robert B. Leighton, et al.

5. 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

6. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
   by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton

7. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
   by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton

8. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
   by Richard P. Feynman, Jeffrey Robbins

9. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
   by Richard P. Feynman

10. The Character of Physical Law
    by Richard Feynman, Frank Wilczek

11. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
    by Richard P. Feynman, Michelle Feynman

12. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
    by Richard P. Feynman, A. Zee

13. Feynman Lectures On Computation
    by Richard P. Feynman

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Chemistry

First years Chemistry

1. Advanced Chemistry For You
   by Lawrie Ryan

2. Advanced Chemistry
   by Michael Clugston, Rosalind Flemming

3. Calculations in AS / A Level Chemistry
   by Jim Clark

College Chemistry

1. Chemistry: The Central Science 14th Ed
   by Theodore Brown, H. LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew Stoltzfus

2. Organic Chemistry 9th Ed
   by Leroy Wade, Jan Simek

Problems with answers of Chemistry

1. Schaum's 3, 000 Solved Problems In Chemistry
   by David Goldberg

2. Schaum's Outline of Beginning Chemistry, 4th Ed
   by David Goldberg

3. Schaum's Outline of College Chemistry, 10th Ed
   by Jerome Rosenberg, Lawrence Epstein, Peter Krieger

4. 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