And furthermore, much of the work and reading material (especially in the social science, not sure about other fields) is really about jumping through hoops, learning the game, knowing the rituals of your particular tribe, and knowing how to cite other academics so that you can properly join the social network. If you are just trying to learn for the sake of knowing, 95% of the readings and the problem sets are irrelevant.
Then I skimmed through your link:
> I predict that in a few years, fluffy feminist divorce court judges will start being assassinated by young women, as the latter increasingly see the source of their misery coming from these judges. These young women, manless, loveless, sexless, and especially childless, due to the mass exodus of the MGTOWs will then express their hatred against these judges in the form of assassination.
Nope, just a normal full on crazy person.
He is discriminating people based on IQ and I don't think Mensa members are like that at all. Mensa's founder wanted to gather brilliant minds to solve society difficult problems (I think they are missing that mission though) which I think is a laudable.
I felt uneasy reading this article... He is specially discriminative in the last section and I don't think all the Noble prizes in the world give the rights to anyone to talk like that.
https://profhugodegaris.wordpress.com/classical-mechanics-2/
here's a breakdown of the "papers":
* anon, A Brief Introduction to Classical, Statistical, and Quantum Mechanics (free)
Not "anon". Ends with the back cover of the book of the same name by Oliver Buehler.
* anon, Classical Mechanics I, Review Problems (free)
Not "anon", as presumably SOMEBODY taught Physics 503a at Emory in 1996 / 1997.
* anon, Resonances in Classical Mechanics (free)
More lecture notes. Who knows where "221B" was taught.
* Deotto et al, Hilbert Space Structure in Classical Mechanics, II (free)
PDF of an article from the Journal of Mathematical Physics. Not free, see AIP's site for terms
* Doran, Grassmann Mechanics, Multivector Derivatives and Geometric Algebra (free)
Preprint (?) of an article in conference proceedings. Springer may disagree with "free" on this.
* Duviryak, Classical Mechanics of Relativistic Particle with Colour (free)
Quite far off-topic for a traditional Classical Mechanics course; assumes sizable math (fiber bundles) and physics (Yang-Mills fields) knowledge.
* Fitzpatrick, Classical Mechanics, An Introductory Course (free)
Another batch of somebody else's lecture notes, from 2006.
* Forger, Romer, Currents and the Energy-Momentum Tensor in Classical Field Theory, A Fresh Look at an Old Problem (free)
This is hep-th/0307199 from arXiv.
* Hestenes, Hamiltonian Mechanics with Geometric Calculus (free)
From the same proceedings as the Doran article above.
* Hestenes, Spinor Particle Mechanics (free)
Another conference proceeding.
* Lasenby et al, Grassmann Calculus, Pseudoclassical Mechanics and Geometric Algebra (free)
Another Lasenby / Doran / Gull paper. This one's from J. Math. Phys.
* Morin, Introductory Classical Mechanics, with Problems and Solutions (free)
This has the copyright notices IN THE PDF, ffs. May be a 2003 draft of Morin's 2008 book.
* Nelson, Derivation of Schrodinger Equation from Newtonian Mechanics (free)
From Physical Review, 1966.
* Olshanetsky, Perelomov, Classical Integrable Finite-Dimensional Systems Related to Lie Algebras (free)
From Physics Reports. In a new low, has ORDERING INFO on the first page of the PDF. Yep, totes free...
* Pascazio, The Action in Classical Mechanics (free)
The first one on this list whose source wasn't immediately trackable. Reads like a lecture handout.
* Pearson, An Exact Classical Mechanics Leads toward Quantum Gravitation (free)
Self-published "here's my scheme to replace relativity" crankery. This doesn't belong here.
* Rajeev, PHY 411, Advanced Classical Mechanics (Chaos) (free)
More lecture notes, this time from U. of Rochester, 2002.
* Rosu, Classical Mechanics (free)
This is physics/9909035 from arXiv.
* Routh, A Treatise on the Dynamics of a Particle (free)
Out-of-copyright, as this is from 1898.
* Seahra, The Classical and Quantum Mechanics of Systems with Constraints (free)
Notes on a course, from a student. http://www.math.unb.ca/~seahra/notes.html
* Tabachnikov, Math Methods of Classical Mechanics (free)
More lecture notes, with a bonus giant photo of the original author.
* Tabunshchyk, Hamilton-Jakobi Method for Classical Mechanics in Grassmann Algebra (free)
This is math-ph/9911001 from arXiv.
* Tatum, Classical Mechanics (free)
Lecture notes from the University of Victoria
* Woit, Hamiltonian Mechanics and Symplectic Geometry (free)
Lecture notes from Mathematics G6434 at Columbia.
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Most of what's here isn't "free"; arXiv articles and out-of-copyright papers from 1898 are the exceptions not the rule.
OK. Where would you like me to build your altar?
