Recent content by Muu9

Aren't most PhD programs funded? What I think a scholarship does for PhD students is get you out of needing to rely on paid TA positions and make you an attractive admit since you bring your own funding. Also, do you have any faculty mentors you can talk to, particularly those who have worked...

When did he self-teach CM, during undergrad?

I don't think they offer a BS maths degree: https://newu.university/majors/

I'm not convinced of the value of such a degree.

Once you've studied a bit (e.g. completed your first pass of a textbook) you can take a practice test here: https://bilimolimpiyatlari.tubitak.gov.tr/tr/online-sinav I also found the 2022 Turkish physics olympiad...

And it's so close to 10^0.5, too.

See if you can find a used copy of "The Cosmic Perspective" or "Conceptual Physics". Bookfinder.com scrapes a bunch of sites to find the cheapest copies.

If you like Hewitt, why not use it? I think it's about as good as it gets for basic high school physics. For one level up, try "college physics" or "physics for scientists and engineers" by Randall Knight. It also has a lot of pictures.

I hear a lot of people recommend Zangwill over Jackson, but not vice versa. That being said, URochester's OPT 462 (an EM course for optics grad students) uses Jackson and Max Born: https://www.hajim.rochester.edu/optics/assets/pdf/gradhandbook.pdf

The timing would still be an issue

Discovery approaches are generally more taxing in terms of cognitive load due the student needing to focus on all aspects of the task rather than just those relevant to the lesson. https://scispace.com/pdf/a-comparison-of-cognitive-load-associated-with-discovery-506tao6xh7.pdf - this article...

I disagree - there's been interesting new developments in the field of psychology, namely Cognitive Load Theory, that support direct instruction.

I don't have an issue with chalk and talk - after all, pretty much every YouTube video is limited to that format, and there are some excellent YouTube videos out there (3blue1brown, Frederic Schuller's lectures). https://theamericanscholar.org/why-so-many-kids-struggle-to-learn/

Sorry, I don't get it

Did you do your bachelor's in engineering?