OT: Being Helpful

[Ralf11]

biosailor - a good mathematics/physics text book to start with would be the Berkeley books series - that is what I used as a young physics major back in the Late Holocene.  You can stop with the sophomore sequence - Jr. year was quantum theory, not needed for audio.

 

Richard Feynmann's first 2 volumes are really interesting to read, but I found it hard to learn physics from them.  He taught at CalTech, so likely just assumed everybody would figure out the physics on their own.

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

 

Another approach would be to go thru the physics textbooks that engineering students use.  In their physics courses, a simpler more conceptual approach is used (tho not the guff you find in physics for poets classes) so it ill be a lot easier (leading to many jokes about lookup tables).  Holliday & Resnick is an older one (we called it Holiday and Redneck).

 

Finally, re sailboats, you might find it fun to look at the literature on fluid dynamics - you can stop in the 1930s as the work went into supersonics at that point.

[Ralf11]

any consumer audio device that uses the word quantum is suspect

[Ralf11]

6 minutes ago, Solstice380 said:

 

He also solved a lot of Oppenheimer's equations, after they took him from the Univ. of Chicago in the middle of the night to go to Los Alamos.  I understand he was quite the jokester, and once propositioned Oppenheimer's wife at one of their weekly parties.  Her reply was: "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!".

 

Bongos baby - that's what it's all about

[Ralf11]

3 minutes ago, Jud said:

 

this thread started off about being helpful, then became about learning about physics in your spare time

 

It thus follows the Internet Law of Thread Divergence.

[Ralf11]

11 minutes ago, Jud said:

 

It certainly seems to follow the Internet Law of Misquoting.

 

I was going to change "said" to 'didn't say' but this forum software denied that

[Ralf11]

hey man, have a fify on me

[Ralf11]

6 hours ago, Jud said:

Anyone have additional helpful resources for auto-didacts, particularly (but not exclusively) free and web- or app-based?

 

on what topic?