The most important part of this is to do the problems! After a PhD in theoretical physics then 20 years as a s/w developer I decided to get some of my chops ba

The most important part of this is to do the problems! After a PhD in theoretical physics then 20 years as a s/w developer I decided to get some of my chops back. You can read and nod about stuff but until you face a blank sheet of paper you don't know if you really understood. +1 for Penrose's "Road to Reality" Also a huge fan of Eric Poisson's lectures (basically free textbooks) http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/poisson/research/notes.html http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/poisson/research/notes.html Short description of getting my chops back: http://nbodyphysics.com/blog/2015/02/28/learn-physics-with-this-one-trick/ http://nbodyphysics.com/blog/2015/02/28/learn-physics-with-t...