When it comes to modern science documentaries I am really confused — either science is exceptionally easy to understand and interesting like hell or the documentary creators are exceptionally good at making everything they create sound and appear interesting.You could even science that a typical science documentary these days is 90% flashy effects and great production quality with a 10% pinch of science thrown in. Hey, but if you watch these documentaries with an...
Here we have a collection of Albert Einstein’s lectures delivered in Princeton University back in 1921. The book is basically introduction to both special and general theories of relativity plus an introduction on the pre-relativity physics. The book is quite simple, with almost no diagrams, but the style is readable and clear. As for the pre-requisites to understand the content of the book, I would recommend knowing at least the basics of special relativity...
Maybe I’ve been living under a rock, but I just found out about this great thing called WikiBooks. It’s basically a collection of open-source textbooks that everyone can edit. So I just found some very useful astronomy stuff. It’s a collection of articles about astronomy, which are arranged as a open-source textbook. One thing that I really liked about the WikiBoks and this textbook is that it’s neatly organized, has a nice presentation and...
In this addition of free science books let’s take a look at a great book called Simple Nature by Benjamin Crowell. Why only one book this time? It’s because this is a hell of a book. It’s an almost 900 physics textbook covering a variety of topics starting with classical mechanics and ending with quantum physics. And the best part is that it’s totally free (open source). The book has 14 chapters, which include:...
So I feel like it’s time to update the free eBook section. This time I gathered 10 free math eBooks, mostly about mathematical analysis. The books range from beginner level textbooks to some more serious material. Also note that among the links there are some, which direct you to an entire open lecture course rather than just a book (including Analysis 1&2 by T. Tao), which I would highly recommend. So here’s the list...
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