Is Online Physics Course Or Degree Advisable?
Q: Has anyone taken an Online Physics course here? What's the best online university offering such? I've graduated college more than a decade ago but deciding to take up physics course and wondering if taking it online is a good idea since I can't go back to local schools. Also in the country where I live, they don't offer things like Relativistic Quantum Field Theory.. or the like... Normal physics graduate here only learned about the basics and don't have enough details to say challenge Heymann, Bjoerns, etc. That's why I plan to take up college physics course and PhD online that is US based so I can learn their language and someday nail them for good. In case there is no online courses and degrees being offered. I wonder what orders of books I need to understand them all in a rough manner since I know only courses can do it. Browsing amazon.com I came across this book "Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell" by Zee. I wonder what other books out there that deal with Quantum Mechanics which have quite good conceptual foundation that explain the mathematics and their conceptual basis or relationship to the core idea of the theories. I'd like to learn if some mathematics are just tricks with no basis in reality. And use it to enhance or modify the foundation of physics which I don't like because it doesn't explain things I've experienced. Has anyone read other books as good as "QFT in a Nutshell" that deal with QM, etc. like "QM in a Nutshell" or so that is not exactly so layman in scope but more like college textbook that explains it in a clear fashion with good conceptual foundation like "QFT in a Nutshell"?? I'm willing to spend 5 years on it whether online course or others.
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