So You Want To Become a Physicist ?

This is a compendium of available LEGAL avenues of acquiring Knowledge through Lecture notes and Problems Sets etc, left for the students in the WWW Domain. Whatsoever be the number of lecture note URLs, students are advised to buy and study from standard text books as prescribed by their Lecturers/Professors or as prescribed by university course and they should also study via these lecture notes parallely.




Important Suggestion : http://bit.ly/1f45mSj


Introductory Courses

• Introductory Classical Mechanics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/301.pdf
2. http://space.wccnet.edu/~gkapp/
3. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01-physics-i-classical-mechanics-fall-1999/
4. http://academics.smcvt.edu/abrizard/Classical_Mechanics/Notes_070707.pdf
5. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dleen/mathsoc/pdf/Notes.pdf
6. http://www.lecture-notes.co.uk/susskind/classical-mechanics/

• Optics and Thermodynamics &  Electromagnetism

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/316/316.pdf
2. http://seagull.ukzn.ac.za/~mukaror/
3. http://www.sicyon.com/resources/library/pdf/optics.pdf

• Waves and Oscillations 

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/315/Waves.pdf
2. http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~bernd/F12MS3/
3. http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/152.mf1i.spring02/OscWavesIndex.htm

• Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/sm1/statmech.pdf
2. http://www.spms.ntu.edu.sg/PAP/courseware/statmech.pdf
3. http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys603/kelly/
4. http://stp.clarku.edu/notes/
5. http://entropysite.oxy.edu/

• Electronics

1. http://openbookproject.net/electricCircuits/
2. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/music-and-theater-arts/21m-380-music-and-technology-live-electronics-performance-practices-spring-2011/lecture-notes/
3. http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~rayfrey/432/DigitalNotes.pdf
4. http://courseware.ee.calpoly.edu/~jzhang/EE112/
5. http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee130/sp07/lecture.html
6. http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/kghadiri/EE122/Class_notes.htm
7. http://www.cramster.com/course-introduction-lecture-note-r30-6638.aspx

• Computational Physics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.pdf
2. http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/CourseWare/EssentialMathematica/
3. http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/people/a.mackinnon/Lectures/compphys/
4. http://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/numerical.html

• Introductory Quantum Mechanics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qmech/qmech.pdf
2. http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/home.html
3. http://walet.phy.umist.ac.uk/QM/QM.pdf
4. Video:  http://physicsstream.ucsd.edu/courses/spring2003/physics130a/
5. http://quantummechanics.ucsd.edu/ph130a/130_notes.pdf
6. http://www.lecture-notes.co.uk/susskind/quantum-entanglements/

• Classical And Quantum Optics

1. http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/ap216/lectures/lectures.html
2. http://atomoptics.uoregon.edu/~dsteck/teaching/optics/

UPPER DIVISION COURSES

• Mathematical Physics 

1. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/undergrad/ughandbook/year2/ma231/
2. http://people.uncw.edu/hermanr/phy311/mathphysbook/
3. http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.0344/
4. http://www.dms.uaf.edu/~rybkin/MathPhysicsLectureNotes.pdf
5. http://www.teorfys.uu.se/people/minahan/Courses/Mathmeth/notes.pdf
6. http://infohost.nmt.edu/~iavramid/notes/mathphys.pdf
7. http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~jochen/methoden/outline.html
8. http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=48
9. http://www.freebookcentre.net/Physics/Mathematical-Physics-Books.html

• Classical Mechanics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/336k/Newton.pdf
2. http://www.phys.psu.edu/~lammert/419/notes.html
3. http://www.physto.se/~ingemar/anmek.pdf
4. http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~rollinsr/phys605/
5. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/dynamics.htm
6. http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~golwala/ph106ab/ph106ab_notes.pdf
7. http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~maloney/451/
8. Free Advanced text on Classical Mechanics (More advanced than Goldstein) -http://ipparco.roma1.infn.it/pagine/deposito/2007/elements.pdf  
9. Kip Thorne's Applications of Classical Physics (Advanced) :http://www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2008/text.html

• Classical Electromagnetism

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/em.html
2. http://monopole.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~bill/emt/LecNotes.html
3. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/teach/module_home/px436/notes
4. http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~alan/MT3601/Fundamentals/Fundamentals.html
5. http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy122/Lecture_Notes/Index.html
6. Video of Landau Level :  http://vubeam.pa.msu.edu/lectures/phy962/962d/electrodynamics/
7. http://www4.wittenberg.edu/maxwell/
8. http://www.plasma.uu.se/CED/Book/
9. E.M notes of Jackson level - http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/grad/504/lects.shtml  
10. http://physweb.bgu.ac.il/COURSES/Electro1_Gedalin/electro1_notes.html

• Solid State physics

1. http://physics.unl.edu/~tsymbal/teaching/SSP-927/index.shtml
2. http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~nayak/solid_state.pdf
3. http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/condmat2012/LectureNotes2012.pdf
4. http://www.physics.udel.edu/~bnikolic/teaching/phys624/lectures.html
5. http://www.wmi.badw.de/teaching/Lecturenotes/

• Plasma Physics

1. http://physweb.bgu.ac.il/COURSES/PlasmaGedalin/introplasma.pdf
2. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/plasma/plasma.html
3. http://www.freebookcentre.net/Physics/Plasma-Physics-Books.html

• Nuclear Physics 

1. http://www.nuceng.ca/igna/physicsfull.htm
2. http://holbert.faculty.asu.edu/eee460/eee460.html
3. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-101-applied-nuclear-physics-fall-2006/lecture-notes/ 

• Atomic Physics 

1. http://nd.edu/~johnson/Publications/book.pdf
2. http://www.nat.vu.nl/~wimu/Atom.html
3. http://www.freebookcentre.net/Physics/Atomic-Physics-Books.html
4. http://uqu.edu.sa/files2/tiny_mce/plugins/filemanager/files/4282179/atomic2.pdf

• Particle Physics

1. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-811-particle-physics-ii-fall-2005/lecture-notes/
2. http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1271/
3. http://www.hep.lu.se/courses/fyst17-fkf050/2002/pp-notes.pdf
4. http://pi.physik.uni-bonn.de/~brock/teaching/atpp_ss10/
5. http://physicslearning2.colorado.edu/tasi/tasi_2011/tasi_2011.htm

• Statistical Mechanics and Thermal Physics 

1. http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~sethna/StatMech/EntropyOrderParametersComplexity.pdf
2. http://micro.stanford.edu/~caiwei/me334/
3. http://www.nd.edu/~powers/ame.20231/notes.pdf
4. http://cs.physics.sunysb.edu/verbaarschot/html/lectures/phy306-05/notes.html
5. http://me.queensu.ca/Courses/346/Notes.html
6. http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0568 
7. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-044-statistical-physics-i-spring-2008/lecture-notes/
8. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-334-statistical-mechanics-ii-statistical-physics-of-fields-spring-2008/lecture-notes/

• Quantum Mechanics 

1. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-spring-2006/lecture-notes/
2. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-322-quantum-theory-ii-spring-2003/lecture-notes/
3. Classical and Quantum Mechanics via Lie algebras - http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0810.1019
4. http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph229/#lecture
5. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0605180
6. http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~lerdos/SS09/QM/
7. http://www.pieter-kok.staff.shef.ac.uk/index.php?nav=teaching&sub=quantum
8. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qm/qm.html
9. http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/QM/fall-course.pdf

• Quantum Field Theory 

1. http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html : Q.F.T Lecture Notes that became a book 
2. HUGE comprehensive Q.F.T book :  http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/Fields3.pdf
3. Quantum Fields in Curved Space Time : https://6157258207063399106-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/winitzki/sergei-winitzkis-files/QFTCS_course.pdf
4. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft.html
5. http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5013
6. http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/notes.html
7. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-238-geometry-and-quantum-field-theory-fall-2002/lecture-notes/

• Quantum Electrodynamics 

1. http://sandman.berkeley.edu/129A/QED.pdf
2. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft/six.pdf
3. http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/forshaw/NorthWest/QED.pdf
4. http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/hepwww/staff/D.Ross/ft1/ft115.pdf
5. http://authors.library.caltech.edu/3523/1/FEYpr49c.pdf

• Quantum Chromodynamics

1. http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~pheno/QCDcourse/
2. http://www.nikhef.nl/~h24/qcdcourse/
3. http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/hep-qcd.html
4. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0508242

• Condensed Matter Physics 

1. http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/winter2010/physics211b/LECTURES/211_COURSE.pdf
2. http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bds10/tp3.html
3. http://folk.uio.no/dragos/Solid/FYS230-Exercises.html
4. http://people.umass.edu/dinsmore/Phys850f04/notes.html
5. http://physics.ucsc.edu/~josh/233.09/index.html

• Special Theory Of Relativity 

1. http://www.phys.vt.edu/~takeuchi/relativity/
2. http://www.cabrillo.edu/~jmccullough/Physics/Special_Relativity.html
3. http://sandman.berkeley.edu/129A/relativity.pdf
4. http://www.lecture-notes.co.uk/susskind/special-relativity/
5. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special_Relativity
6. http://www.mathpages.com/rr/rrtoc.htm
7. http://cosmo.nyu.edu/hogg/sr/

• General Theory of Relativity 

1. http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Carroll3/Carroll_contents.html
2. http://preposterousuniverse.com/grnotes/
3. Intro to Differential Geometry and General Relativity -http://people.hofstra.edu/Stefan_Waner/RealWorld/pdfs/DiffGeom.pdf
4. Oxford General Relativity Lectures -  http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/nwoodh/gr/index.html
5. More General Relativity -  http://www.blau.itp.unibe.ch/lecturesGR.pdf
6. University of Warwick General Relativity -  http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/teach/module_home/px436/notes
7. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/gr/gr.html
8. http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/lectures/genrel_2010.pdf
9. http://www.itp.uzh.ch/courses/mayer/GR2011/
10. http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~hartle/
11. http://www.phy.syr.edu/research/relativity/rel-link.html
12. http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/relativity.html
13. http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/~cwh/goldies.html
14. http://www.luth.obspm.fr/IHP06/
15. http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/hyperspace/

• Cosmology 

1. http://christian.vonschultz.se/forelant/gravitation_and_cosmology/
2. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
3. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/g.w.gibbons/
4. http://cosmology-lectures.angelfire.com/
5. http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5158
6. http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0101003/
7. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/current/teach/module_home/px389/
8. http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/users/mcamenzi/CosmoVorl.html

• High Energy Physics

1. Standard Model : http://www.nu.to.infn.it/Standard_Model/
2. European School of High-energy Physics : http://arxiv.org/html/1202.1629v1
3. https://www.kvi.nl/~brandenburg/accelera.htm
4. http://cdsagenda5.ictp.it/full_display.php?ida=a02258
5. http://www.helsinki.fi/~slehti/ComputingMethodsInHEP/ComputingMethodsInHEP.html
6. http://web.science.uu.nl/drstp/Seminars/archivesTHEP.html
7. http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5550
8. http://www.openquestions.com/oq-hep.htm
9. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209067
10. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0403286/
11. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/reviews/
12. http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~krieger/phys489.html

• String Theory 

1. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/string.html
2. http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/lectures/stringnotes.pdf
3. http://www.physto.se/~fawad/Strings/
4. http://www.math.usm.edu/lee/strings.html
5. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709062/
6. http://christian.vonschultz.se/forelant/string_theory/
7. http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~alberto/physics/stringrev.html
8. http://www.math.usm.edu/lee/strings.html
9. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0008017
10. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709062

• Loop Quantum Gravity

1. http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0210094/
2. http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0402
3. http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9710008
4. http://academics.hamilton.edu/physics/smajor/Papers/read_guide.html
5. http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/pullin/gambinilaplata.pdf
6. http://cgpg.gravity.psu.edu/people/Ashtekar/articles/rovelli03.pdf
7. http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3660
8. http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0404018
9. http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910079
10. http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0410054
11. http://cgpg.gravity.psu.edu/people/Ashtekar/articles.html
12. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin03/smolin03_index.html

• Super-Symmetry Lecture Notes 

1. http://www.cpt.dur.ac.uk/~georg/ss/ss.htm
2. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~aitchiso/susy.pdf
3. arXiv paper on ABC of Super-Symmetry -http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0905/0905.4630v1.pdf
4. http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1491
5. http://www.tuhep.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/~francescaB/LECTURES/LN_SUSY.html
6. http://www.christiansaemann.de/files/LecturesOnSUSY.pdf
7. http://statistics.roma2.infn.it/~fucito/appunti/derendinger.pdf

MORE NOTES (Miscellaneous) 

• Motion Mountain Text for Physics : http://www.motionmountain.net/

• The legendary Feynman Lectures in Physics: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

• Kip Thorne's Lecture Notes, Videos and Problems On Gravitational Waves :  http://elmer.caltech.edu/ph237/

• Set Of Lecture Notes on All Physics Topics (Intro to Advanced Undergrad From U of T at Austin) : http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching.html

• Lectures on Harmonic Analysis -  http://www.math.ubc.ca/~ilaba/wolff/notes_march2002.pdf 

• Tons of Course notes By John Baez -  http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/QG.html  and  http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/

• Tons of Course Notes BY Warren Siegel - http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/plan.html

• Lots of Presious Links By Dr. B.S Ramachandra - http://www.drbsramachandra.com/apps/links/

• Huge Number of Physics E-Books -  http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=2, and http://www.freebookcentre.net/Physics/Physics-Books-Online.html

• Analytical Mechanics -

1. http://www.physto.se/~ingemar/anmek.pdf  
2. http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~rollinsr/phys605/  

• David Tong's Lecture notes from Cambridge - http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/dynamics.htm

• Caltech notes -  http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~golwala/ph106ab/ph106ab_notes.pdf

• Guide To Theoretical Physics 

1. http://michaelhallsmoore.com/blog/Guide_To_Theoretical_Physics
2. http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~Gadda001/goodtheorist/index.html
3. http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0810.1019 
4.  http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html

• NPTEL Physics Courses (Some of the topics are under development) : http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses.php?disciplineId=115

• MIT OCW courses : http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#physics 

• http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Services/Class/PHYS481/lecture.html

• James Binney's Lecture Courses : http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/JamesBinney/lectures.html

• Foundations of Math Physics : http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/courses/cmms30/7CCMMS30.html

• Some good Notes : http://v37s3b4h7dn47s37hg1br4h7rs7n3du7s8nu.unbf.ca/~n28zb/Some%20good%20lectures%20and%20notes.html

• http://www.hepl.harvard.edu/~morii/phys151/lectures/

• Michael Fowler's Notes : http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/

• Free university lectures : http://lecturefox.com/physics/?page=1

• Lecture Notes and Reviews (Cambridge) : http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bds10/res_lec.html

• http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?lang=e&n1=courses&n2=scripts

• http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/JohnCardy/

• Homepage of Michael Goerz : http://michaelgoerz.net/studies/theoretical-physics.html

• http://www.jpoffline.com/mphysnotes.php

• John Preskill Lecture Notes : http://theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/

• http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/

• http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/lnotes/

• http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Education/Tutorials/

• http://users.ictp.trieste.it/~pub_off/lectures/

• http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~nrc25/tp2/index.html

• http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/books/wwwbrief?t=Lectures+Notes+in+Physics

• http://home.thep.lu.se/~bijnens/fytn04/

• http://www.dctech.com/physics/lecture_notes.php

• http://freescienceonline.blogspot.in/

• http://www.nuigalway.ie/physics/links_lectNotes.html

• http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/topcites/2010/alltime.shtml

• http://glenmartin.wordpress.com/home/resources/

• RECOMMENDED PHYSICS BOOKS 

1. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/booklist.html
2. http://www.amazon.com/Some-great-books-physics-self-study/lm/R8EJA6K1IP4J2
3. http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=53126    
4. http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Major-Musts/lm/2W8A6WNYI6D3Q
5. http://www.amazon.com/best-physics-books/lm/13XQ7BUZB1DI3
6. http://michel-lussier.hubpages.com/hub/textbooks-for-the-standard-physics-curriculum