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mrwall-e
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Hi,
I'm new here but want to get to know physics fairly well. This might sound strange, but I'm still in Middle School. My real interest in physics is to get to know QM, but I know I have to start somewhere :P.
My interest in physics began with a small group that learned from a college student, teaching us what I would call pre-calculus. It began with very simple stuff, reviewing operations with exponents and deriving equations, but eventually got to a level where the entire group could derive the formula of the area of a circle from the area of a square (still very basic, compared to most math). As you can see, no REAL formal math background. My math is basically Algebra I/II, and a little bit of PreCalc. I enjoy math and can learn it very quickly, but I have little support from teachers in my school except for a few.
I learned a little while ago that I would be participating in a chemistry class with a woman who has a PhD in chemistry, but again that will be very basic. I hope eventually chem/physics/biochem will become my field of study, but that is far in the future. Again, my motivation for learning physics is to understand chemistry better but I also hope to learn a lot about the world while I'm at it :P.
Basically, I'm looking for textbooks, websites, or lectures that you can recommend for me to learn some of the math required and the physics, too. I know I should begin with Classical Mechanics and work my way towards QM, but I need some of the math background to do so. I have resources so that if I have a basic math problem I can't solve, there are people I can ask for help.
PS. I'm really in 7th grade. :)
PPS. I know basic vectors and scalars, but that's about it. Anything I learned is really from WikiVersity.
Thanks
I'm new here but want to get to know physics fairly well. This might sound strange, but I'm still in Middle School. My real interest in physics is to get to know QM, but I know I have to start somewhere :P.
My interest in physics began with a small group that learned from a college student, teaching us what I would call pre-calculus. It began with very simple stuff, reviewing operations with exponents and deriving equations, but eventually got to a level where the entire group could derive the formula of the area of a circle from the area of a square (still very basic, compared to most math). As you can see, no REAL formal math background. My math is basically Algebra I/II, and a little bit of PreCalc. I enjoy math and can learn it very quickly, but I have little support from teachers in my school except for a few.
I learned a little while ago that I would be participating in a chemistry class with a woman who has a PhD in chemistry, but again that will be very basic. I hope eventually chem/physics/biochem will become my field of study, but that is far in the future. Again, my motivation for learning physics is to understand chemistry better but I also hope to learn a lot about the world while I'm at it :P.
Basically, I'm looking for textbooks, websites, or lectures that you can recommend for me to learn some of the math required and the physics, too. I know I should begin with Classical Mechanics and work my way towards QM, but I need some of the math background to do so. I have resources so that if I have a basic math problem I can't solve, there are people I can ask for help.
PS. I'm really in 7th grade. :)
PPS. I know basic vectors and scalars, but that's about it. Anything I learned is really from WikiVersity.
Thanks
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