I want to study Physics over the summer, recommend a textbook

[bxb]

Also you can watch MIT lectures here .

[Butso]

do they have videos of lectures? i can only find lecture notes

[DWarrior]

not all are available on video:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/avocw.htm There's a Physics I among them.

[metamath]

ocw is excellent.

8.01 is classical mechanics.
8.02 is e&m.

both are pretty good.

[DWarrior]

That dude is so sick, I almost missed the bus today. I wish all my classes were this fun.

[metamath]

who?

[DWarrior]

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http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-...ures/index.htm

[divides_by_zero]

Second the OCW suggestion.

But really, there are a lot of good just basic Physics books out there that will tell you what you want. Check out your library, ask your high school for what they use for their AP class if they have one, and if you have a local university check out their library.

Study the 8.022 stuff if you want to be a real man.

Also - check out the 18.022 stuff (under mathematics). Physics and calc go together like peas and carrots and you HAVE to be strong in calc to handle E&M.

I took 18.022 and 8.022 at the same time and learned everything I needed to know for 18.022 the first week of 8.022.

[DWarrior]

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Second the OCW suggestion.

But really, there are a lot of good just basic Physics books out there that will tell you what you want. Check out your library, ask your high school for what they use for their AP class if they have one, and if you have a local university check out their library.

Study the 8.022 stuff if you want to be a real man.

Also - check out the 18.022 stuff (under mathematics). Physics and calc go together like peas and carrots and you HAVE to be strong in calc to handle E&M.

I took 18.022 and 8.022 at the same time and learned everything I needed to know for 18.022 the first week of 8.022.

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Thanks. I'm also interested in Calc & Theory (18.014), since I've only gone up to Calc 2 so far. I'll probably do that and start with basic Physics first and see how I progress. I don't want to schedule too much because I have other stuff to do also, and I doubt I'm ready to dive straight into 8.022.

I might start reinforcing all the classes I take with MIT's lectures to get more theoretical understanding.

[dlong226]

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