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hi,
So I'm a crazy computer geek, I've been programming since I was young, I turned Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist before I turned 18 a few months ago. Unfortunately, I'm not very good with academia, I have an IQ of 121 but I was diagnosed with depression (probably primary) some psychotic tendencies and possibly ADD. I failed my 12th grade last year and I attempted it again this and I know i'll fail again the way i gave the exam, mostly it was because I loathed the school and the system and was in a bout of psychosis and depression. I now moved away from my crazy home into a hostel to study better.
My very last attempt now is to give A levels in November privately, I know it sounds crazy but there was a time when i was 12-13 and i started actually learning physics and then moved on to computer science because it was very practical. And back then i would get nothing less than a 90% in physics and math, my mental disorders set in about when i was 14 and that when the grades took a steady slope down.
My crazy plan now is to be able to study physics and math like i studied computers, I looked at sub branch and tried everything from Assembly language to Flash and AJAX, so I want be able to know and understand all major aspects of physics properly, i know i don't have much time but i don't have much of a choice either.
According to my a levels i need to know :
Pure Mathematics (I want to know Calculus)
Statistics
Mechanics
And in physics its quite more or less like high school physics but i want to go ahead of it and learn the basics to the major branches of physics like classical mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics.
So far I have Calculus by Thomas/Finney, some books on pure math, Fundamentals of physics by Resnick/Halliday also I love electronics so I got Art of electronics by Horowitz/Hill and lastly I have Chemical Principles by Atkins/Jones will that be any helpful in understand math and physics better? Maybe with thermo dynamics and quantum mechanics?
I need to know what to start with first, what order should I learn things, I don't know advanced math like calculus and trigonometry well, should I cope with that first?
Thanks so much.
Gideon
So I'm a crazy computer geek, I've been programming since I was young, I turned Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist before I turned 18 a few months ago. Unfortunately, I'm not very good with academia, I have an IQ of 121 but I was diagnosed with depression (probably primary) some psychotic tendencies and possibly ADD. I failed my 12th grade last year and I attempted it again this and I know i'll fail again the way i gave the exam, mostly it was because I loathed the school and the system and was in a bout of psychosis and depression. I now moved away from my crazy home into a hostel to study better.
My very last attempt now is to give A levels in November privately, I know it sounds crazy but there was a time when i was 12-13 and i started actually learning physics and then moved on to computer science because it was very practical. And back then i would get nothing less than a 90% in physics and math, my mental disorders set in about when i was 14 and that when the grades took a steady slope down.
My crazy plan now is to be able to study physics and math like i studied computers, I looked at sub branch and tried everything from Assembly language to Flash and AJAX, so I want be able to know and understand all major aspects of physics properly, i know i don't have much time but i don't have much of a choice either.
According to my a levels i need to know :
Pure Mathematics (I want to know Calculus)
Statistics
Mechanics
And in physics its quite more or less like high school physics but i want to go ahead of it and learn the basics to the major branches of physics like classical mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics.
So far I have Calculus by Thomas/Finney, some books on pure math, Fundamentals of physics by Resnick/Halliday also I love electronics so I got Art of electronics by Horowitz/Hill and lastly I have Chemical Principles by Atkins/Jones will that be any helpful in understand math and physics better? Maybe with thermo dynamics and quantum mechanics?
I need to know what to start with first, what order should I learn things, I don't know advanced math like calculus and trigonometry well, should I cope with that first?
Thanks so much.
Gideon