How to Study Physics as an Adult?

Question

Any great video series or audio books? Exercise and math are important so I guess getting a good text book is solid advice for eventual mastery, but my immediate goal is just to understand a lot of the concepts and dynamics that have been discovered, and that folks who studied physics at undergrad level would be familiar with.

fabianholzer · Accepted Answer

Susan Rigetti has written a guide for autodidactical studies, that might be helpful for this aim: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics

tcascais · Answer

Books are so poorly written that they are only useful because of the exercises, table of contents and as a consulting guide to see relevant equations and images. They could easily be 1/3 the size and have the same impact. For concepts, I only use AI.And probably openstax.org is enough anyway, in terms of books. They do a better job for free that most publishers with lots of recommendations that charge hundreds. Then you have a lot of exercises provided by some american colleges that I assume will also be enough.

zfg · Answer

These two books by Sean Carroll might be good starting points. They're more technical than the usual popular science books but they assume no prior knowledge beyond high school algebra:https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/biggestideas/