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It would help to know what background you have and what interests you/what you hope to get out of it. Did you have basic physics in undergrad?

Foundation can mean a lot of things. It can mean having a really solid grasp of how Newtonian mechanics is put together. It can mean having a solid grasp of doing experimental physics on classical systems. It can mean having a mathematical understanding of symplectic manifolds and quantization. It can mean replacing your naive physical model of motion in your hind brain with a learned, Newtonian model.

If you've never done any lab work, actually getting a stopwatch and conducting experiments with balls rolling down inclined planes and the like can be...eye opening.

You will need problems to work, otherwise anything you do is superficial. For example, here's a collection of elementary physics problems: https://archive.org/details/BukhovtsevEtAlProblemsInElementa... (The Russians were great about building this kind of collection.)

If you can give some more detail, it will help us direct you better.



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