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8.022 Physics II
MIT OpenCourseWare
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The second semester of MIT's introductory undergraduate physics sequence, covering electricity and magnetism, with Walter Lewin-style lecture recordings and problem sets published free on MIT OpenCourseWare. It is part of the 8.012, 8.022, 8.03 series that a commenter suggests as core undergraduate theory.
One commenter who self-studied through MIT OCW calls the material remarkably complete and says its lecturers are often better than those at most universities, and recommends the 8.022 course as part of the core physics series.
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Back in the day I self-studied through MIT OCW, and found it remarkably complete. It's better in quality than what you would get at almost all universities, including MIT itself (!), because only the best lecturers tend to get immortalized on OCW.
Going through the series 8.012, 8.022, 8.03, 8.033, 8.04, 8.044, 8.05, 8.06 will give you the core theoretical knowledge of a physics major. (I assume you already know all the relevant math background.) If you prefer lecture notes, I imagine the best thing is to go through David Tong's lecture notes [0] from start to finish, as these cover almost the entire Cambridge undergraduate curriculum very clearly. If you want textbooks, at least in America, the books one uses for these courses are pretty standardized, and Fowler's blog post lays out these standard choices. For more advanced books, I have a pretty extensive bibliography in the front matter of my personal lecture notes [1].
0: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/teaching.html 1: https://knzhou.github.io/#lectures