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5 votes
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What is a particle?
4 votes -
Teardown preview - A voxel ray-traced game on PC with next-generation destruction and physics
19 votes -
Lava lamp centrifuge
8 votes -
Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery in basic math
11 votes -
Elliptic Orbits explained by Albert Baez
4 votes -
The self-levitating Kingsbury aerodynamic bearing
9 votes -
The incredible physics behind N95 masks
9 votes -
Artistic enigma decoded by cosmic Czech start-up
5 votes -
Meet Oklo, the Earth’s two-billion-year-old only known natural nuclear reactor
17 votes -
507 movements
8 votes -
Can we save energy, jobs, and growth at the same time?
5 votes -
New evidence for cyclic universe claimed by Roger Penrose and colleagues
6 votes -
2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes – an astrophysicist explains the trailblazing discoveries
9 votes -
A new cosmic tension: The universe might be too thin
5 votes -
What is a great book to learn high-school level physics?
That's a requirement for a test I'm going to take. I tend to learn better with well designed, reasonably comprehensive books that don't treat me like a dumbass (not as a genius either!). Please...
That's a requirement for a test I'm going to take. I tend to learn better with well designed, reasonably comprehensive books that don't treat me like a dumbass (not as a genius either!).
Please notice that I'm not asking for websites, interactive platforms, videos, or whatever, but about books, preferably ones that I can study on my Kindle (so PDFs are not ideal). I know all the major websites but I just can't follow them.
I can pay very small amounts but I'm pretty much unemployed in a third world country so free is always better.
If there are requirements to understand such books, kindly inform!
I finished school more than 20 years ago and I was not a good student. But I'm kind of a decent learner now that I have a diagnostics (ADHD).
Thanks a bunch!
EDIT: guys, I am actually a beginner in the sense that I literally know little to nothing about the subject! I'm also not a math wizard. Advanced suggestions are appreciated but also entirely useless. This is also for a test, so, beyond a very brief introduction, general understandings on the Neil DeGrasse Tyson level is also of little use for me. I don't need to understand the beauty of the cosmos, I need to pass a test. Thanks!
10 votes -
LIGO/Virgo’s newest black hole merger defies mass expectations
5 votes -
Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
5 votes -
Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction
11 votes -
What if the Big Bang was actually a Big Bounce?
9 votes -
CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs decay to two muons
5 votes -
What dark matter is (probably) not
6 votes -
Origin of the elements in the Solar System
4 votes -
What's the color of an atom?
2 votes -
Alone on a mountaintop, awaiting a very hard rain
7 votes -
Hadrons are much more than the familiar protons and neutrons
3 votes -
ThorCon's thorium converter reactor
9 votes -
Lights and shadows
4 votes -
How weed eaters work (at 62,000 frames per second)
5 votes -
These physicists finally figured out why microwaved grapes ignite
18 votes -
Scientists just found the biggest neutron star (or smallest black hole) yet in a strange cosmic collision
5 votes -
A super sensitive dark-matter search yields strange results. Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data: One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics
4 votes -
CERN makes bold push to build $23-billion super collider
12 votes -
Scientists create exotic, fifth state of matter on space station to explore the quantum world
4 votes -
Bertrand Russell’s infinite sock drawer
8 votes -
Quantum 'fifth state of matter' observed in space for first time
9 votes -
Marie Curie's PhD thesis
8 votes -
To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
6 votes -
No, NASA didn't find a parallel universe where time runs backward
13 votes -
Searching for scalar dark matter using compact mechanical resonators: Resonators could access a broad segment of previously unprobed parameter space
4 votes -
Scientists unravel challenge in improving fusion performance
7 votes -
Electrons may very well be conscious
12 votes -
Pulling seven G's in an F-16 and going supersonic with US Air Force Thunderbirds
4 votes -
A new type of chemical bond: The charge-shift bond
5 votes -
New type-II supernova 2020jfo detected in Messier 61 galaxy
5 votes -
Inside curved spaces
5 votes -
NASA's former EmDrive lead left to pursue a new project
9 votes -
ESO instrument finds black hole 1000 lightyears from Earth
6 votes -
Ask a cosmology PhD student (almost) anything!
Hi all, I am a PhD student focusing in cosmology. I wanted to up the science content here on Tildes, and I thought that one way to do so is to have an informal little Q&A session. As such, feel...
Hi all,
I am a PhD student focusing in cosmology. I wanted to up the science content here on Tildes, and I thought that one way to do so is to have an informal little Q&A session. As such, feel free to use this post to ask any questions you might have about cosmology specifically, and physics in general.
This may not be as exciting as some other science AMAs given that I am a rather early graduate student, so there may be a lot of questions I don't know the answer to. However, I'm willing to try my best and answer over the next few days, and to let you know I don't know if I don't!
A bit about myself: I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago where I studied physics and mathematics, and then I was a student researcher in a computational cosmology group at a national lab. I subsequently enrolled at UC Davis to continue studying cosmology. Ask me anything about physics, cosmology, or high performance computing!
I also invite anyone else with expertise to chime in as well!
23 votes -
Richard Feynman: Making the extraordinary look easy
5 votes