This is from Perimeter Institute which (on their own website) has incredible collection of high quality content on topics like theoretical physical, mathematics, for those who are interested.
Cool. His lecture notes are worth checking out when studying any physics topic imo. I've seen his QFT notes especially recommended in many places, though I haven't yet got that far personally...
Great lecturer - when I took Part III he stepped in for a few sessions when the regular lecturer for QFT broke her arm.
His notes are always pretty clearly explained. Equally importantly, I've found he's always really responsive if you think you've found an error. (And very patient if the original is correct, and your "correction" is a mistake!)
Cool that his lecture notes are now books! The lack of thermodynamics/statistical mechanics is an unfortunate oversight, however, otherwise one could feasibly use his books exclusively for an undergraduate-level degree program in physics.
His quantum mechanics lecture on YouTube at the Royal Society I think, is a masterpiece. Some very interesting facts, mostly about what we don't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg
I like that he sees that we haven't made progress (in 10 years or now 20) and likely won't. He doesn't delve into the silliness that a lot of pop-sci particle physicists have. It's all well beyond me, but I've always wondered why the inertial Higgs mass seems also to be gravitational in addition to all the binding energy mass, which is inherently relativistic. Whether that's (presumably not based on his comments) related to "dark matter" is the other sort of cosmological connection. Nice review.
There are lots of recorded lectures by him online too, which are great. His quantum field their lectures are especially popular https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qftvids.html.
This is from Perimeter Institute which (on their own website) has incredible collection of high quality content on topics like theoretical physical, mathematics, for those who are interested.
Cool. His lecture notes are worth checking out when studying any physics topic imo. I've seen his QFT notes especially recommended in many places, though I haven't yet got that far personally...
One of my mechanics courses used his lecture notes for analytical mechanics and I liked them, i.e. 'classical dynamics'.
Great lecturer - when I took Part III he stepped in for a few sessions when the regular lecturer for QFT broke her arm.
His notes are always pretty clearly explained. Equally importantly, I've found he's always really responsive if you think you've found an error. (And very patient if the original is correct, and your "correction" is a mistake!)
WTF?
[Tang notes in-joke for potential downvoters]
Cool that his lecture notes are now books! The lack of thermodynamics/statistical mechanics is an unfortunate oversight, however, otherwise one could feasibly use his books exclusively for an undergraduate-level degree program in physics.
Tong actually has excellent Statistical Physics lecture notes available on his website (https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/statphys.html), they just haven't been published as books yet.
The smell is indeed the important part. Sadly the smell goes away in a while even if unopened. Maybe I should purchase some case to retain the smell.
"Dave's lectures are basically the opposite of me." - Pete Tong
His quantum mechanics lecture on YouTube at the Royal Society I think, is a masterpiece. Some very interesting facts, mostly about what we don't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg
I like that he sees that we haven't made progress (in 10 years or now 20) and likely won't. He doesn't delve into the silliness that a lot of pop-sci particle physicists have. It's all well beyond me, but I've always wondered why the inertial Higgs mass seems also to be gravitational in addition to all the binding energy mass, which is inherently relativistic. Whether that's (presumably not based on his comments) related to "dark matter" is the other sort of cosmological connection. Nice review.