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The approach many courses take to physics, specially "modern Physics" is really bad, this is how it should be taught:
* start by describing experiments that the previous best theory did not explain, see also: <physics education needs more focus on understanding experiments and their history>{full}
* then, give the final formula for the next best theory
* then, give all the important final implications of that formula, and how it amazingly describes the experiments. In particular this means: <doing physics means calculating a number>
* then, give some mathematical intuition on the formulas, and how the main equation could have been derived
* finally, then and only then, start deriving the outcomes of the main formula in detail

This is likely because at some point, experiments get more and more complicated, and so people are tempted to say "this is the truth" instead of "this is why we think this is the truth", which is much harder.

But we can't be lazy, there is no replacement to the why.

Related:
* http://settheory.net/learnphysics and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MKjPYuD60I&list=PLJcTRymdlUQPwx8qU4ln83huPx-6Y3XxH from <settheory.net>
* https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html by <John Baez>. Mentions:
  > This webpage doesn't have lots of links to websites. Websites just don't have the sort of in-depth material you need to learn technical subjects like advanced math and physics — at least, not yet. To learn this stuff, you need to read lots of books
  <Ciro Santilli> is trying to change that: <OurBigBook.com>.
* https://web.archive.org/web/20210324182549/http://jakobschwichtenberg.com/one-thing/ by <Jakob Schwichtenberg>


How to teach and learn physics

Other people with similar philosophies:
* <Montessori education>
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191223214225/http://settheory.net/academic-system from <settheory.net>


Bibliography

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<physicist> with lots of focus on <politically incorrect>/Right wing stuff:
* https://motls.blogspot.com/ his <blog>
* https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1236/lubo%c5%a1-motl he has lots of contributions to <Physics Stack Exchange>
* http://settheory.net/crackpot-physics[]: some comments about him from <settheory.net>


Luboš Motl

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By <Ciro Santilli>: <how to teach>{full}.

Others:
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191223214225/http://settheory.net/academic-system from <settheory.net>


Teaching method

These are basically technically minded people that <Ciro Santilli> feels have similar <Ciro Santilli's psychology and physiology>[interests/psychology] to him, and who <graphomania>[write too much for their own good]:
* <cat-v.org>
* <gwern.net>. Dude's a bit overly obsessed with the popup preview though! "new Wikipedia popups (this 7th implementation enables recursive WP popups)" XD
* <settheory.net> by <Sylvain Poirier>
* <HyperPhysics>
* <Orange Papers>

Maybe one day these will also be legendary, who knows:
* <Sandy Maguire>'s blog: https://sandymaguire.me[], e.g. https://sandymaguire.me/blog/burnout/
* https://solitaryroad.com/physics.html About https://solitaryroad.com/a790.html

Another category Ciro admires are the "<computational physics> visualization" people, these people will go to <Heaven>:
* https://rafael-fuente.github.io/

Related:
* <James Somers>

Institution led:
* http://www.biology.arizona.edu/ The Biology Project

Other mentions:
* https://arngren.net/ lots of images of toys and gear with descriptions in Norwegian


The best personal webpages of all time

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https://settheory.net/

Where <Sylvain Poirier> dumps his <mathematics> and <physics> brain.

Notably, given the domain name, it is clear that he likes <formalization of mathematics>-stuff, like <Ciro Santilli>.

At first glance, looks a bit dry though, not many examples.


Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

 Incoming links: settheory.net