This winter I won't have internet and will have minimal obligations and human interaction. I'm looking for textbook recommendations on a number of things.
-Physics -Algebra -Geometry -Calculus -Electrical engineering / (AC) circuit design -Modern Material science and fabrication techniques -Human anatomy, general physiology, and biochemistry (more or less pre-med material) -Ecology
I'm aware of the sticky. I'm just curious about some more personal accounts. I already have a patchwork knowledge of most of these topics and their underpinnings, but severe deficits in mathematics specifically. Time I dealt with that overhead.
you won't be studying that all day just because you won't have internet during one season (one of the shorter ones).
here's my recommendation: Problems in General Physics by Irodov
Joseph Ortiz
I probably will though, aside from part of wednesdays and thursdays. I've done it before, and perhaps I can return (but not regress) and do it again. Don't have a social life, etc, and live in a rural area.
>Problems in General Physics by Irodov Looking into this, thanks.
Jordan Lee
If I had the time I would study topology cuz it looks interesting af. But practically you should study programming languages like python or c. One step below that would be electronics projects
Jaxon Johnson
Why do you want to study these?
Robert Hughes
you got around 2000 problems in that book. winter is around 90 days long, meaning you'd have to do around 22-23 problems a day. try doing the first 5 right now and you'll see it takes a much longer time to truly understand some things (I'll post them, in case more people are interested). your lacking in maths will cause so much problems when studying physics, yet you put physics as the first subject on that list.
here's the first problem in the book(starting with fundamentals of mechanics, kinematics):
>A motorboat going downstream overcame a raft at a point A; τ = 60 min later it turned back and after some time passed the raft at a distance l = 6.0 km from the point A. Find the flow velocity assuming the duty of the engine to be constant.
shouldn't be too hard yet.
Gavin Gutierrez
-10 km/min
Kayden Richardson
My knowledge of math is at more or less a sixth grade level, which is why I'm starting over from algebra. A bit of the logic is there, but I haven't the slightest how to functionally use any of it.
Have an old interest in physics, but have mainly taken an abstract and top down approach on my own. Try to avoid mental compartmentalization of the low level mechanics, but still poorly understand why they're thought to be as they are, and the wider picture.
Math for a number of obvious reasons.
Electrical engineering because I'm apt to view everything (with what constitutes a given system or "thing" being applied at arbitrary scales) as a machine and want to understand not only how they work, but how to efficiently make them myself. Make transformers, understand spacings of the coils, fix things that aren't functioning right. Goes back to a childhood that was misused and always went in the wrong direction, from some perspectives.
Material science because it's useful if you're designing a given object and targeting certain properties, doing CNC machining, etc.
Anatomy because I have considerable investment in biology and medicine at smaller scales, but have never bothered with the whole.
Ecology because Earth is a grand mechanical waterfall of which humans are just a small set of clusters.
Gabriel Cooper
I don't expect to get through everything, and would have to start with the mathematics. Although a few aspects of this situation and the mindset I feel myself slipping into will likely afford the capacity for rapid progress.
Physics is probably the best proxy to studying math for me.
I live in the northeast US (Vermont). Winter can "start" as early as late October, and tends to subside by early to mid April. For me this will begin when it's consistently below freezing.
I'm also working on a programming project. That will probably receive a degree of attention as well.
