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The discussion revolves around the sharing of various online resources related to physics, mathematics, and engineering. Participants are compiling links to textbooks, lecture notes, research papers, and educational websites, covering a wide range of topics including gravitational waves, classical mechanics, relativity, and quantum theory.

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  • One participant mentions organizing links into a document for easier access.
  • Another highlights the importance of an online preprint server for high-energy and relativity papers, noting its accessibility.
  • Several links to educational resources are shared, including John Baez's website, which contains physics FAQs and relativity links.
  • A participant shares a link to a course on gravitational waves, emphasizing its suitability for advanced students and professionals transitioning into the field.
  • Multiple resources for classical physics, including textbooks and lecture notes, are listed, with some participants noting their usefulness for studying various physics topics.
  • Links to resources on special and general relativity are provided, including lecture notes and significant papers by Einstein.
  • Quantum theory resources are also shared, including free textbooks and lecture notes from various institutions.

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Participants generally agree on the value of the resources being shared, but there is no consensus on which specific links or resources are the most useful, as preferences vary among individuals.

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Some links are reported as broken, and there are mentions of resources being in different languages, which may limit accessibility for some users. The discussion does not resolve the effectiveness or reliability of the shared resources.

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That's right, I'm changing it back to it's original name. : p

I have all the links copied into an MS Word document. I'll try to organize them this weekend, then I'll post them all here.
 
Physics news on Phys.org
The sites I end up using all the time:[Removed Broken Link]
Online preprint server... virtually all the high-energy and relativity papers written nowadays, and many others, show up here. Anyone can download the fulltexts for free. Best thing since sliced bread!

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The Net Advance of Physics. A huge directory to online books, notes, tutorials, and reviews, on a huge range of physics topics. Invaluable.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/
John Baez's website. He is a quantum geometry researcher at UC-Riverside, and has a ton of interesting info and good links. Especially recommended:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/
Physics FAQ
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Good relativity links
 
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Einstein's famous paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies in English in .pdf format

fis.linux-chile.org/doc/specrel.pdf fis.linux-chile.org/doc/specrel.pdf

P.S. This is not a hyper link so DO NOT include http://www.

Just type the type it in in the address bar
 
Gravitational Waves

This is a Gravitational Waves Class taught at the California Institute of Technology, January through May of 2002. This course was designed for physics graduate students or advanced undergraduates, and for scientists and engineers who have been working in other fields and are contemplating switching to gravitational-wave research -- experimental, theoretical, or both. The web-based materials include Quicktime videos of the lectures, lists of suggested and supplementary reading, copies
of some of the readings, many exercises, and solutions to all
exercises.

The main site can be found here: http://elmer.tapir.caltech.edu/ph237/

When you click on Week 1 you will need to download the video of the lecture and also open the PDF file of the slides for the lecture at the bottom of the page. Kip will refer to the slides and it is important to have the PDF open as Kip is speaking.

I personally have not had the time to get to far into the lectures but I'm sure some of you will find this interesting and enjoyable. Especially if you are interested in gravitational waves, who better to lecture you than Kip Thorne and a host of other professionals.
 
General Physics Resources

Archives and Libraries:
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Los Alamos arXiv
http://web.mit.edu/~redingtn/www/netadv
physiknetz (German)
Physics Virtual Bookshelf
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PhysicsWeb
UPSCALE
HyperPhysics
http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/physics7.html Library of basic course materials.
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Commisariat a L'Energie Atomique Scripts on theoretical physics. (French)
http://www.spm.cnrs-dir.fr Scripts on theoretical physics. (French)
Library of the Physics Institutes of Bonn University (German)
CERN Document Server
http://www-lib.kek.jp/top-e.html
DESY Preprint Archives
http://www1.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~rwagner/physik/skripten.html Robert Wagner's webpage. (German)
http://hug.phys.huji.ac.il/Phys_Machon/Colloquium/index.htm from the Racah Physics Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew, some in English)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics/ejourn.html From the University of Washington.
UPenn Library Links to online physics books.
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1240.html From Neural Links Plus by Prof. Mark Dubin of Colorado. Many different sciences.
E-Library of Science From the University of New Mexico. Physics, mathematics, and philosophy.

Textbooks:
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Motion Mountain Physics Text A comprehensive tome that is worth printing out.
http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1.html 6 free textbooks.
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Physics for Free 3 Textbooks by Yale Prof. Frank Firk (one on mechanics thru GR, one on groups and particles, and one on Einstein)

Other:
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http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~poptor/current.html Undergrad level problem sets with solutions. From University of Toronto.
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[URL='https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/author/john-baez/']John Baez’ Stuff[/url]
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http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rmext04/92andwed/pf_quant.html#Top Basic Introduction
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http://dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Education/Tutorials
Phys Link Physics and astronomy.
 
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Classical Physics

Classical Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics):
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Newton’s Principia It’s not all there, but it is worth looking at.
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~omen
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http://www.bestofcolumbus.com/Braeunig/space/orbmech.htm From bestofcolumbus dot com.
http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/orbits/orbits.html
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/UASEDS/o-mech/orbital_mech.html From SEDS at University of Arizona.
Physics 220 Lecture Notes Mechanics, heat and sound from Perdue University.
Mechanics Links From physics.about.com.

Classical Mechanics (Fluids and Fields):
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International Journal of Fluid Dynamics
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

Classical Electrodynamics:
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http://www.plasma.uu.se/CED/Book Highly recommended for studying for Qualifying Exams![/color]
Optics 2001 dot com Optics library and message board.
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http://www.pwaves.0catch.com/zag/english.htm
http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/crit/1908b.htm
http://www.airynothing.com/jackson/index.html Solutions to selected problems of "The Baddest Book on the Shelf".

Classical Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
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http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/rcfta/thermo.html
 
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Relativity

Special Relativity:
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http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/~cew2/P209/P209_home.html
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On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies By Einstein, from Fourmilab.
Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content? By Einstein, from Fourmilab.
Special Relativity by David Hogg—nice book.
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http://astsun.astro.virginia.edu/~jh8h/Foundations/quest7.html Answered by Virginia's Astronomy Department.
http://www.ccinet.ab.ca/tcantine/TP.html

General Relativity:
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Lecture Notes on General Relativity From LANL arXiv.
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http://pancake.uchicago.edu/~carroll/notes by Prof. Sean Carroll, Univ. of Chicago.
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http://www.focusresearch.com/texts/sor-latex.phtml By Einstein.
http://aci.mta.ca/Courses/Physics/4701_97/etext.html From Mount Allison University (in progress).

Other:
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http://www.time-direction.de This could have gone either in the Quantum or Relativity section. I flipped a coin, and here we are.
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Living Reviews in Relativity An online journal.
 
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Quantum Theory

General:
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Warren Siegel’s Homepage Three free textbooks available here, on QFT, SUSY, and String Theory.

Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing:
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Virtual Journal of Quantum Information Quantum computing, cryptography, and communication.
http://theory.caltech.edu/~quic From Caltech.
www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html[/URL] Also from Caltech.
[url=http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph229]Quantum Computing lecture notes[/url] Again, from Caltech.
[url=http://www.qubit.org]Qubit dot org[/url] Centre for Quantum Computation, a collaboration of Oxford and Cambridge theorists.
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[PLAIN]http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/~jcresser/phys301/LectureNotes
http://ocw.mit.edu/5/5.61/f01/index.html Lecture notes from MIT Open Courseware program.
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http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/ap216/lectures/lectures.html Lecture notes from Harvard.
http://edu.ioffe.ru/lib/galperin A nice, thorough online textbook.

Quantum Field Theory:
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http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/users/markh/RQF1 by Univ. of Sussex' Prof. Mark Hindmarsh
http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/users/markh/RQF2 by Univ. of Sussex' Prof. Mark Hindmarsh
http://www.pt.tu-clausthal.de/~aswl/scripts/qft.html by Institut für Physik und Physikalische Technologien's Prof. Wolfgang Lucke (PS only)
http://arturo.fi.infn.it/casalbuoni/lezioni99.pdf by Florence University's Prof. Roberto Casalbuoni
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http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~ruthjl/papers/itft.html
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http://t.home.cern.ch/t/tfeldman/www/lectures_nijmegen.html Also has exercises with solutions.
Bookmarks on QFT, Gauge Field Theory, and String Theories Many, many links.

Quantum General Relativity:
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Quantum Gravity: A Progress Report From LANL arXiv.
 
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Mathematics
If this gets too big, I'll delete it and start a Math Napster in the Math forum.

General:
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Textbooks, Lecture Notes and Tutorials in Mathematics An absolute goldmine!
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SOSMath Undergraduate level materials, plus homework help message board.
http://www.gotmath.com Links to online textbooks and lecture notes, plus other math sites.
MathPages Articles on more advanced topics.

Calculus and Analysis:
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Elementary Calculus
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http://utcsl.phys.utk.edu/~forrest/papers/fourier
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Math Forum Library

Algebra:
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Mathematical Induction 30 problems for you to crack your noodle on.

Differential Equations:
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http://ejde.math.swt.edu

Dynamic Systems:
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http://www.wfu.edu/~petrejh4/chaosind.htm

Vectors, Tensors, and Differential Geometry:
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Free Textbook Tensor Calculus and Continuum Mechanics
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stefan_Waner/diff_geom/tc.html


Mathematical Physics:
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Mathematical Physics Electronic Journal
Memoirs on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics Subscription required, but older issues are available for free.
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American Institute of Mathematical Sciences Click on "Journals" and go nutty.
 
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Originally posted by Tom
Does anyone know if Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery is online?

http://aegis.ateneo.net/fted/sci10/pdf/LogicOfDiscovery.PDF

I'm not familiar with the text, so I am not sure if this is in full, or for that matter, even what you were talking about. Hope it is.
 
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http://

This is a marvellous site! It has loads of stuff on recent scientific progresses in exploring outer-space.
 
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an ebook about quantum and classical chaos in ps and pdf formats:http://www.nbi.dk/ChaosBook/
 
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The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara is a major centre for symposiums with lectures given there being posted on it's website for any visitor to listen to or watch by streaming or download.

http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/
 
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sure,

maths:
A vast collection of resources including past papers, assignments and notes. includes some university maths.
http://www4.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/me2.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com

maths articles
http://www.dovepresent.com/pages/articles/bernoulli.html

maths resources by topics
http://www.maths.com.au/resources/syllabus/index.html

the "integrator"
http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.en.cgi

physics:

http://webs.mn.catholic.edu.au/physics/emery/physics_hsc.htm


notes on maths and physics
http://www.fatmuscle.cjb.net/


umm that's about it. some of these may be limited to the syllabus.
 
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Physics problems website:
http://
 
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I don't know if this has already been posted or not as I haven't been following the thread lately, but I guess it deserves to be posted twice.
MIT is launching the OpenCourseWare program making its course materials free.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
 
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Online lecutures

I see the forum has changed structure. I don't know where the links are for online texts etc. but I know of one the belongs on the list. It's Kip Thorne's and Roger Blanford's new text. See

http://www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2002/index.html

Thanks

Pete
 
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I am collecting information in preparation for construction on a small particle accelerator. In my resent searching I found this book "Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration" http://www.fieldp.com/cpa/cpa.html. It should be helpful for me and hopefully someone else out there.
 
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The Mathmagician and the Pied Puzzler

a free book about recreational maths there is an interesting paradox i haven't resolved yet (im planning to open a thread about it):
http://www.g4g4.com/paul/BOOK.pdf
 
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Biophysics link, with a free online textbook.
http://
 
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