Favorite Physics Texts?

I’m looking for more technical texts but I’ll check this out.

Have you checked out The Theoretical Minimum 4-part series by Susskind?

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The Theoretical Minimum is a series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses taught by world renowned physicist Leonard Susskind. These courses collectively teach everything required to gain a basic understanding of each area of modern physics including all of the fundamental mathematics.

The sequence begins with the modern formulations of classical mechanics discovered by Lagrange and Hamilton in the late 18th and 19th centuries, and then moves on to the radical new theories of relativity and quantum mechanics discovered by Albert Einstein and others in the early 20th century. The sequence concludes with a study of modern cosmology including the physics of black holes.

Professor Susskind's current work on black hole firewalls is discussed in this New York Times article. He recently gave a lecture on the topic at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (UCSB), and co-authored a paper with Juan Maldacena that proposes Einstein-Rosen bridges as an alternative to black hole firewalls.

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It has been a while, but I remember this being a fun one:

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I second this book! It is a good read.

@OP I am assuming below is the book you just read...if so, please read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" and his other books. It's definitely worth straying from the purely technical to read the stories Mr. Feynman shares.



I also own his lectures on physics...have not perused them yet.



Watch this if you haven't: