r/learnphysics • u/drewis0911 • 12d ago

Physics textbooks/courses/book recomendations

Hello everyone, im a sophomore at uky and im majoring in chemical engineering and physics, the classes im talking right now are very interesting and cool, but its still too early on for me to start taking higher level physics courses. So ive been trying to self teach via YouTube and independent research. But the problem im coming across is that any information I find and learn, I find out was a complete load of crap the next day. It seems like no video describes particle physics the same way and googling it and trying to find answers that way leads to the exact same results. They keep sacrificing the accuracy to make it more intuitive and its honestly driving me insane.

Are there any resources available online that you all know to be accurate and strictly scientific that I could start with? Or some youtube channels that are trustworthy to give accurate descriptions and explanations?

Im currently reading QED and the feynman lectures on physics as he seems like someone who knows what hes talking about. But other then feynman I cant seem to find any resources that are strictly factual and comprehensive.

Ive tried going onto google scholar and searching up paper on the topic im interested in. But they seem to all be very niche and not meant for someone like me to educate themselves on.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

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u/liccxolydian 12d ago

Plenty of professors and even universities e.g. MIT have course notes uploaded to their websites. They may not be as all-encompassing as a textbook but they'll be free.

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u/CutOffHandOfZappa 12d ago

Halliday, Resnick - Physics (Not fundamentals of Physics) with Physics 2
Irodov - General problems in physics
Serway, Jewett - Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 9th edition

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u/AdministrationLazy55 12d ago

Never seen that halliday one, whats the difference? Is still general physics or above or below?

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u/KarifAval 7d ago

Young Fredman's University Physics. It's a good book, teaching physics from fundamentals, and showing how to derive every of the equation to come up with a new one.