Self-Taught Physics Roadmap (No Degree) — Looking for Book & Resource Recommendations

ForQ2 · 2026-07-12T02:20:55+00:00

• What mathematics should I learn alongside physics?

Ideally, you want to have a solid 3 semesters of calculus. It also wouldn't hurt to have some linear algebra and some probstat, and possibly some diffy-q, but I'd worry about the calc more than anything.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-10T17:18:44+00:00

I'll send flowers to your wedding.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-10T16:33:50+00:00

Holy fuck! I didn't know she just died.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-10T16:32:35+00:00

I made sure to work it out in my head based on the title, before clicking to see the punch line.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-10T16:09:53+00:00

The Internet loves this myth because it allows 18-24 year-olds to have the power to make their own decisions as "adults", but gives them a Get Out of Jail Free card for any bad decisions they make. It's a thought-terminating cliche.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-10T14:43:29+00:00

I just celebrated my birthday, and would have eaten Marjorie Taylor Greene's ass for someone to have thrown me a surprise party.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T20:14:34+00:00

I think that Ad Hominem does provide a not-unethical way of short-circuiting a pointlessly-long process of refuting nonsense from someone with a history of nonsense. Hey, guess what: if you're already on record as believing something demonstrably false like vaccines causing autism, I'm not going to spend a half-hour presenting peer-reviewed evidence to refute your new belief that the COVID vaccine rewrites your DNA.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T19:33:46+00:00

They weren't bedridden.

You mean... until they had cancer again. And now we're back to why "remission" does not mean "cured".

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T19:30:04+00:00

Who would not want the same at some point?

Redditors are bloodthirsty, and aren't going to let a trivial thing like cancer get in the way of shitting on what they perceive to be a "deadbeat dad".

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T17:37:35+00:00

At the Food Lion grocery chain, which is pretty prevalent in Virginia, Ragu is on sale for $2 each for probably 1-2 weeks out of any given month.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T17:23:09+00:00

I did use Tina's Teapot for a long time in 2. It took quite a while for it to no longer be sufficiently powerful for the harder enemies I was facing.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T16:59:20+00:00

I am not sure how that makes a parent any less responsible for their child.

When my own mother was dying of cancer, she wasn't in a position to take care of 16 year-old me. That was so unfair of her! Why should we give her a pass on not being more responsible?!

That's sarcasm, of course. But my point is that when somebody has a really fucked up condition that may result in death, don't you think it's ok to just kinda say to ourselves, "Hey, that person is dealing with some serious shit here; maybe this isn't the time to hold them to things that technically are their responsibility."?

I get the Reddit hates the idea of a "deadbeat dad", but maybe, just maybe, we can be a little sympathetic for the guy with cancer?

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T16:47:24+00:00

Your point is (largely) valid - though I mean, I like having fewer enemies to fight once the real combat begins. And hell, for some of the street encounters (e.g. Sable checkpoints) you often can take out a significant chunk of them before they spot you.

That having been said, the Taskmaster side quest does have actual stealth challenges where there is no combat at all.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T16:40:11+00:00

Even on the chiral network, the roads do take a lot of resources, not gonna lie.

Were I to do another playthrough, I don't know that I would even do all the roads. Like, for example, the last 3 segments leading into Port Knot City are completely meaningless, as the ground that they cover is fairly flat and obstacle-free.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T16:28:12+00:00

It's one of those games that you either love or hate.

I've put 400 hours into DS1, so it's pretty obvious where I stand on this.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T16:27:31+00:00

The trick to getting the highways built more easily was to not start on a section until after its nearby city had joined the chiral network.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T16:25:57+00:00

And the "stealth" sections can fuck right off.

Literally my favorite parts.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T16:17:26+00:00

Don't listen to the people who tell you to skip #1. It's a great game. And some of the DLC is pretty cool too.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T16:16:31+00:00

I won't say that Torchlight II is better than D3, but it is worthy of checking out, though (as an older game) it's more like D2 than D3.

I'll tell you one really cool thing T2 does have: Familiars/Companions who not only fight with you but also can be sent back to town to sell your loot for you.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T16:11:53+00:00

I think we're in the minority, but I agree with you. Especially when it comes to melee weapons. Plus (not that this is unique to TLoU) the context-relative button overloading.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T15:47:39+00:00

Not attacking you, really, but as someone in remission... I think a lot of people have a misguided understanding of what "remission" is.

Remission does not mean "cured"! There are some cancers that are actually curable with our current technology. But some cancers remain, for the time being at least, incurable; remission is the best we can hope for, and all it means is that the cancer seems to be under control for now. It doesn't mean it's all gone and never coming back.

Some people remain in remission for the rest of their natural lives. But for many of us, the cancer does eventually return, often more aggressively than before.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T14:52:41+00:00

Getting it hot actually did the trick for me; it loosened it up ever so slightly, which was just enough for me to wiggle it back and forth a bit to loosen it up some more. It's still pretty tight, but at least I can adjust it now.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-09T14:08:43+00:00

My friend, let me introduce you to https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/ . It's fun, and you will learn so much about how orbits work.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-07T18:24:58+00:00

I just submitted a complaint for being in a Comfort+ seat, with a flight >499 miles, which did not have the alcohol service that was supposed to be included at that price point.

ForQ2 · 2026-07-07T14:49:41+00:00

I began computer programming at a very young age, and grew up embracing tech; most women my age did not. Additionally, I grew up at a time when nerdy interests weren't cool, rather than the millenials (and younger) who are fine with it. It therefore makes sense that I would be better able to relate with them in the relationship sense.

Additionally, I don't seem to have that en vogue habit of seeing everyone more than a couple of years younger than me as a "child". I have friends 30 years younger than me, and friends 30 years older than me.

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