L.R.
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I'm currently living at home in the middle of the woods, and find myself extremely bored. While working 12 hour days on a farm tires one physically, mentally I feel...restricted.
I just finished university, and it feels weird to be doing so little. So I decided to take this "holy-****-I'm-trapped-in-Nowhereville" time to learn a few things. I'm teaching myself French, and that's going well. I'm an arts major (sociology ftw), but always had an affinity for maths. I sat in for a few courses of friends at university, and though I've not taken anything in 5+ years, I'm still able to hold my own. Business math courses seemed fairly easy, while those in calculus took me a couple classes to get a handle on. (Though at one point I scored higher on practice tests than a friend whose major it is)
Lately, I've become fascinated with the world of physics, and I feel it would be enjoyable to explore it. I know I have a mind for it, but have no desire (or financial incentive) to reenter academia. With this, I thought it would be fun to enter it at a more leisure pace.
Does anyone have some good beginner level texts/books to recommended that would start in the correct direction of learning the maths and principles behind basic physics? I've not trained in any quantitative methods (outside of statistical analysis for research methods) since high school, so bare this in mind.
Anyways, cheers and thanks for any advice!
I just finished university, and it feels weird to be doing so little. So I decided to take this "holy-****-I'm-trapped-in-Nowhereville" time to learn a few things. I'm teaching myself French, and that's going well. I'm an arts major (sociology ftw), but always had an affinity for maths. I sat in for a few courses of friends at university, and though I've not taken anything in 5+ years, I'm still able to hold my own. Business math courses seemed fairly easy, while those in calculus took me a couple classes to get a handle on. (Though at one point I scored higher on practice tests than a friend whose major it is)
Lately, I've become fascinated with the world of physics, and I feel it would be enjoyable to explore it. I know I have a mind for it, but have no desire (or financial incentive) to reenter academia. With this, I thought it would be fun to enter it at a more leisure pace.
Does anyone have some good beginner level texts/books to recommended that would start in the correct direction of learning the maths and principles behind basic physics? I've not trained in any quantitative methods (outside of statistical analysis for research methods) since high school, so bare this in mind.
Anyways, cheers and thanks for any advice!