I have about 50 million questions regarding physics, but I’m not going to burden you with all my tedious questions. Instead, I was wondering if there are books that you know of or websites you could send me to about basic to intermediate physics. I never took physics at all in high-school, a decision I now greatly regret, because I’ve recently taken an interest in physics, but have basically no knowledge about physics whatsoever.

I have about 50 million questions regarding physics, but I'm not going to burden you with all my tedious questions. Instead, I was wondering if there are books that you know of or websites you could send me to about basic to intermediate physics. I never took physics at all in high-school, a decision I now greatly regret, because I've recently taken an interest in physics, but have basically no knowledge about physics whatsoever.

Asked by erimentha-deactivated20110921

If you want to actually learn physics, no place beats Khan Academy. If you know calculus or you’re a very determined person, check out MIT OpenCourseWare (and if you want to learn calculus, check that out too). If you just want to chill out and watch some neat physics lectures where you can pick up some info, check out your local university (everyone has one) and see if they have a physics department. Usually they give free public lectures quite often. Just sit in there, even if you understand nothing (I sat in on a class last year where professors came in and presented their research to grad students. Most of it went over my head, but I absorbed some of it). The Feynman Lectures are just beautiful. Reddit has a great physics community that is pretty knowledgeable and kind to newbies. If you can get your hands on a physics textbook, you’re as good as gold.

Just read. Read, read read. Start somewhere, anywhere, and just go from there. Good luck.

- Carly