supernova_smash
03-10-02, 02:09 AM
Hi all, I'm just beginning to read about physics and whatnot, and I was wondering if anyone had any recommended resources that I should check out, I'm especially interested in space/time. Is there some crucial background reading I should do first? So far I've only read Asimov on Physics, working my way through Brief Hist. of time as well as [a fair chunk of] my high school text book. Any direction you can point me in is drawing thanks from me. Bye byes.
James R
03-10-02, 06:47 AM
Timothy Ferris's <i>Coming of Age in the Milky Way</i> is a good read.
Welcome to here, Supernova_Smash.
Here is a website I have found very useful now and then:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/ask_an_astronomer.html
I just bombard them with space and physics questions until they need a vacation. :)
On the electrodynamics of moving bodies, A. Einstein (http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/)
Also, the Feynman lextures.
The Brief History Of Time
by Stephen Hawking(sp)
supernova_smash
03-11-02, 07:25 PM
Thanks Avatar ;)
Note: Refer to my original post to see what i'm presently reading :)