A lot of people seem to be recommending the Feynmann lectures, but I'd recommend that you use those to supplement other reading rather than as your main text.
If you want to get up to speed quickly, try University Physics by Young and Freedman. It's a well written general physics textbook, contains plenty of exercises and diagrams (important!) and should get you up to a basic 2nd-year (UK) physics undergrad level.
After that, look towards the Manchester physics series. Electromagnetism (Grant and Phillips), Statistical Physics (Mandl) and Optics (Smith and Thomson) are all pretty good, and cover the bulk of classical physics. (University Physics covers dynamics well enough by itself.)
For quantum mechanics, I found the early chapters of Molecular Quantum Mechanics (Atkins) instructive. There are a few good relativity textbooks out there, but I can't remember the names of any...
For astrophysics textbooks, Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics (Zeilik and Gregory) covers the basics. For high energy astrophysics, Longair is the most comprehensive textbook I've found. For galactic astrophysics I read Combes et al., which I found quite average.
That's in France. In Britain, while costs are dropping rapidly, many telecoms are still over-charging or enforcing restrictive download limits which puts anything more than 2mbps broadband out of range for a LOT of small businesses, schools etc.
While I'd personally love to see a wimax antenna strapped to the side of Blackpool tower (I'd be in range), it'd either be far too expensive to actually use or the signal would suffer at the hands of our wonderful British weather!
Power-line BB seems like a more practical (& cheap) solution TBH.
"This facility can be used to maintain complete duplicates of remote client laptop drives to a server system"
What great news! Now I can totally ditch any sensible file-backup scripts I was using & just cram every last byte, relevant or not, down some tiny little hotel connection (on the way making sure as much of my data is captured by dodgy proxies as possible).
Then I'll force all of my lusers to save their images in bitmap format!
Another BSD innovation then.
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A lot of people seem to be recommending the Feynmann lectures, but I'd recommend that you use those to supplement other reading rather than as your main text.
If you want to get up to speed quickly, try University Physics by Young and Freedman. It's a well written general physics textbook, contains plenty of exercises and diagrams (important!) and should get you up to a basic 2nd-year (UK) physics undergrad level.
After that, look towards the Manchester physics series. Electromagnetism (Grant and Phillips), Statistical Physics (Mandl) and Optics (Smith and Thomson) are all pretty good, and cover the bulk of classical physics. (University Physics covers dynamics well enough by itself.)
For quantum mechanics, I found the early chapters of Molecular Quantum Mechanics (Atkins) instructive. There are a few good relativity textbooks out there, but I can't remember the names of any...
For astrophysics textbooks, Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics (Zeilik and Gregory) covers the basics. For high energy astrophysics, Longair is the most comprehensive textbook I've found. For galactic astrophysics I read Combes et al., which I found quite average.
Good luck!
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That's in France. In Britain, while costs are dropping rapidly, many telecoms are still over-charging or enforcing restrictive download limits which puts anything more than 2mbps broadband out of range for a LOT of small businesses, schools etc.
While I'd personally love to see a wimax antenna strapped to the side of Blackpool tower (I'd be in range), it'd either be far too expensive to actually use or the signal would suffer at the hands of our wonderful British weather!
Power-line BB seems like a more practical (& cheap) solution TBH.
"This facility can be used to maintain complete duplicates of remote client laptop drives to a server system" What great news! Now I can totally ditch any sensible file-backup scripts I was using & just cram every last byte, relevant or not, down some tiny little hotel connection (on the way making sure as much of my data is captured by dodgy proxies as possible). Then I'll force all of my lusers to save their images in bitmap format! Another BSD innovation then.