★ Richard Feynman’s Lectures on Physics
Dr. Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of all time.
He gave lectures at Cornell University (which were
recorded) and various interviews. Please watch all of
them. He also wrote an amazing book in three binds on
physics which is an absolute must-read.
- Lectures: Link.
- Book: Link.
★ Leonard Susskind’s Lectures on Physics
These are lectures given to the public by Leonard
Susskind at Stanford. He was a good friend of Dr.
Feynman and is one of the best physicists in the world.
Also he is probably the only person who can really
challenge Stephen Hawking. Dr. Susskind, (the Danish
physicist) Holger Bech Nielsen, and
Yoichiro Nambu independently introduced the concept of
particles being excitations of relativistic strings.
He covers every major topic in physics in a very interesting
way. They are certainly worth watching!
★ Lev Landau’s Course of Theoretical Physics
Lev Landau wrote, together with his student Evgeny Lifshitz
a ten-volume series of books covering theoretical physics.
He thought up most of the content when he was in prison!
I consider it a must-read particularly for physicists
but also applied and engineering physics.
- Books: Link.
★ Walter Lewin’s Lectures on Physics (undergraduate)
Prof. Walter Lewin is a very exciting, enthusiastic, and
engaging teacher at MIT. He teaches a couple of physics
classes with a wide range of topics. I watched all his
lectures during my first undergraduate semester:
- Lectures: Link.
★ Prof. V. Balakrishnan’s Lectures on Physics (undergraduate)
I find these lectures very interesting. Prof. Balakrishnan
from IIT Madras (in India) is an extremely talented physicist
and a great teacher. He has a deep understanding of the
subject matter, which he shares with you in these great
videos:
- Classical Physics: Link.
★ iPhone Programming
Paul Hegarty does a brilliant job in this lecture series and
knows essentially everything about it. Very thorough
course on iPhone programming from Stanford.You learn
how to program in objective C and use the MVC principle.
Homework is provided as well. Make sure to do them and
you will get a very firm grasp of the material.
★ Programming Paradigms
Lecturer Jerry Cain does a phenomenal job introducing
computer science. Follow it and you will learn a lot about
the various programming languages and what separates
them. Also, you will never have doubts about
pointers and general low level memory
management again!
★ Mathematical Physics
Bruce Kusse in the AEP department at Cornell has an
amazing course on Mathematical Physics in 2 parts. The
book is very well written and has a very nice approach to
complicated topics. Ever wondered what a
Green’s function really is? Or what a Laplace
transform is? Do you want some deep insight
into Laplace’s equation or learn something about
group theory all in a very clear and intuitive way?
You guessed it, this book is for you.
I took this course followed by Jackson E&M and I was
very well prepared for that.
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