Useful Links
Beginning from research articles to lecture notes and some quick numerical tricks for computational physics, I have posted links* to things on the internet that I've found resourceful as physicist.
*Note: I try my best to keep the links to the listed content updated (from time-to-time). In case you find something missing or broken, sorry about that (just try googling!). If there's something seriously wrong, please drop me an email.
Articles and Essays
Here's a list of thought provoking articles and essays relating to different aspects of science and research, that I revisit/re-read quite frequently for inspiration.
- 'More is different' by Phil Anderson
- 'Theory of Everything' by Robert Laughlin and David Pines
- 'You and your research' by Richard Hamming
- 'Birds and Frogs' by Freeman Dyson
Lecture Notes (& Videos)
Frankly, there are way too many of these online. So, I've only listed resources that I've found exceptionally useful and have something unique to offer.
- 'Lectures on Theoretical Physics' by David Tong
- 'Quantum Condensed matter Physics' by Ben Simmons
- PSI Masters Lecture Videos 2011/2012
Note: I personally like the following lectures from 2011/2012. Mathematical physics by Prof.Carl Bender, Statistical Physics by Prof.Leo Kadnoff and Condensed matter physics by Prof.Nandini Trivedi. - Lectures on Quantum theory by Frederic Schuller. (Lectures | Notes )
- Lectures on Geometric Anatomy of Theoretical Physics by Frederic Schuller
(Lectures | Notes)
Software and Scientific Computing
At times solving problems in Physics, requires a bit of skill to get computers to do things for you. Though this section seems obvious to anyone doing physics, I included it to share things I have had chance to dabble with, in my research.
- Simulations/Numerics : MATLAB | Mathematica(especially for Symbolic calculations)
- Wolfram Alpha-Computational intelligence (Online tool for some quick math intuition)
- Programming Languages: Fortran | Python (Anaconda ) | Julia
- Scientific Computing tools for Python(SciPy)
- netlib- Fortran and C package library for science (Why we still use Fortran? )
- LaTex (for typesetting equations and drafting text).
LaTex Editors: Texmaker, TeXstudio and Overleaf(online) - Reference-LAPACK on github
- CTAN- Archive Network(a place to find LaTEX packages)
- Text editors I've use(d): Sublime text | Microsoft VS code editor | Vim (Only for the Gods!)