I disagree with the suggestions of Feynman's lectures and especially with the Joos book. I would consider the Joos book very advanced, something that would best be tackled after 3-4 semesters of calculus and differential equations. I have read that the course taught at Caltech by Feynman, which is the course that his lecture books were made out of, was actually not a very successful course. Again, that was to Caltech freshman. I'm not downplaying his lecture notes, as I haven't even really read them, but I'm not for sure they're the best suggestion here.
You are in your senior year, so most likely you are just learning calculus starting this fall. This makes the Joos book a horrible suggestion. My suggestions are:
1)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880292512/?tag=pfamazon01-20 by Isaac Asimov
This book has very little math in it and reads more like a novel of physics. It will give you a history and timeline of physics, built up from a foundation and continued up through particle physics (which is a little out of date due to the books publication date). The book will also help build the all important intuition.
2)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0596102372/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Please, please, please do not be thrown off by its apparent silliness. I have three other books in the Head First series and they do not disappoint. They have good technical knowledge in them, but are very fun. It will give you a solid foundation in basic mechanics, which is where most freshman physics courses start off. I learned HTML and Java from Head First, and a friend who used their statistics book for help in a university level statistics course was pleased as well.
3)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0914098896/?tag=pfamazon01-20 by Richard Courant
There is also an
https://www.amazon.com/dp/354065058X/?tag=pfamazon01-20 of Courant's book. If you read and work through either of these books, your understanding of calculus will be much improved and very strong. In my experience, the calculus learned in high school is almost worthless. I have taught calculus to freshman for three semesters now, in three different disciplines, and it is almost impossible to be able to pick out which students have had calculus before beyond the first week or so. So build up your calculus and make sure you understand it, intuitively and technically. These two books are the best for that job.
My basic suggestions are to not plunge ahead through books like Feynman, which will assume knowledge of calculus, or Joos, which greatly assumes knowledge of calculus. From my experiences in university, you will not be taught a lot of intuition, but rather a lot of technical knowledge. It is a good idea to build your intuition and true understanding through solid foundations than to just jump ahead into advanced material. The Halliday/Resnick book is not a bad suggestion though as it is what a lot of universities use to teach freshman physics.
I also second the recommendation of picking up some more popular type books. I suggest anything by George Gamow. I loved his Gravity book and look forward to reading his others. I cannot emphasize enough that if you have the bigger picture going into your university studies, you will be light-years ahead of the other students. It will also make the technical learning more digestible and motivated because you know where you'll be headed.
