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Physics

General high level physics study guides and notes.
Note: I'm not a physicist :)

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[A] [2018-08-17] Baez – how to learn physics physicstostudybaez

[B] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24088496 (on 't Hooft's "How to become a good theoretical physicist") physics

CREATED: [2020-08-08]
This is cool as always, but in case anybody is seriously contemplating using it: this list is infamous for its complete uselessness for anybody actually trying to learn. It's mostly recommended because of 't Hooft's name, but it doesn't reflect how he actually learned physics himself, nor how anybody ever has, really.
It's been "under construction" (i.e. completely abandoned) for two decades. Half the links are broken, and the ones that aren't tend to be whatever the top Google hit was in the 90s, not what's pedagogically best. If you're serious about learning physics, there are many much better roadmaps, like Susan Fowler's list https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics

TODO [C] [2018-12-09] Gerard ’t Hooft, Theoretical Physics as a Challenge http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html physicstostudy

[2019-01-10] go through it and figure out where I am? physicstostudy

TODO [B] [2020-08-01] Viktor T. Toth - Physics notes physics

ok, this is amazing.. def need to read everything

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TODO [D] Physical Church-Turing Thesis: {laws of physics can be simulated to any desired precision by a TM (or at any rate, by a probabilistic TM)} physicsdrill

TODO hadron was now the general term for particles that felt the strong force. physicsdrill

CREATED: [2020-07-31]

from Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

[B] [2020-08-01] Viktor T. Toth - Physics notes physics

TODO [2018-11-14] A soft introduction to physics for mathematicians who don't know the first thing about physics - MathOverflow physicsmath

[2019-01-10] shit, that's intense.. physicsmath

Another question: Why in general relativity E=mc2?
Math Answer: Because the group of Poincaré has no cohomology

[B] [2020-12-07] How big is an electron? /r/Physics physics

[C] [2020-10-22] Nyquist frequency - Wikipedia physics

[C] [2019-05-10] Problems with the Standard Model Higgs | Azimuth physicshiggs

But in case you’re worrying now that it’s “possible, and in fact inevitable, that a vacuum decay takes place with catastrophic consequences for the Universe”, relax!
These calculations are very hard to do correctly. All existing work uses a lot of approximations that I don’t completely trust.
Furthermore, they are assuming that the Standard Model is valid up to very high energies without any corrections due to new, yet-unseen particles!
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