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A Guide to the intrepid adventurer.

How to learn Physics from the ground up

A Guide to the intrepid adventurer.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men made orbits and N-body problem.

  1. 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

  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

  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

  1. 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/

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

  3. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  11. Feynman Lectures On Computation
    by Richard P. Feynman

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

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João Nuno Carvalho

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