What we’re about
This is a group for anyone who has ever rigorously studied physics – or has wanted to. Here's why you'd want to join us:
- If you feel like physics is the most interesting and most difficult subject that there is;
- If you're burning with a desire to deeply understand the universe at its smallest and largest scales;
- And if you thrive in an environment of learning through collaboration with people like yourself...
... then you've found the right place!
Join us to participate in lively discussions and learn core material in serious study groups. We offer multiple tracks of study, regularly host special events and talks, and are constantly tweaking the meetup to make it more useful. We also stay in touch between meetings to motivate and help each other continue learning.
Everyone is welcome from every level of experience! Many of us are (re)discovering physics after college (sometimes long after) and it can be easy to feel rusty or underqualified. Don't fall into that false narrative! If you think some of the material in this meetup is too advanced, we want you to join us so that we can help you learn!
Upcoming events
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•OnlineMastering Quantum Mechanics
OnlineThis quantum mechanics track will utilize Barton Zwiebach's Mastering Quantum Mechanics, with optional supplementation from his lecture series which are freely available online on YouTube or MIT OpenCourseWare. We will be starting off in Section II, Theory.
Some experience in quantum mechanics is expected, but new attendees may feel free to catch up as we go along. For reference, many of us recently finished watching Allan Adams' Quantum Physics I lecture series.
If you have just found this event and are worried that you're too far behind, don't worry! Our meetups are expressly structured to encourage and invite people to join us at any point and at any level of prior knowledge, as long as you've had at least some exposure to calculus and basic physics in the past. You are definitely welcome here!
We also maintain a live chat server for staying in touch between meetups. Ask us for a link.
This event is one of the many other collaborative study tracks in our Physics With Friends community. Check out all of our other events to find additional physics topics that you might want to study together!
Please note that the Mastering Quantum Mechanics meetup series is a highly mathematical meetup for everyone who is serious about learning the advanced branches of math and physics that one needs to master in order to deeply understand the equations and applications of QM. It is not a general discussion group for popular physics topics or sci-fi tangents. For casual physics chat, please attend our regular "Discuss Physics and Make Friends" event, held every third Wednesday of the month.
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•OnlineWeekly Open Self-Study & Office Hours for Previous Attendees
OnlineThis is a weekly Zoom meeting (see below for link) for anyone who's already attended our previous meetups to have (mostly-)quiet self-study time on any topic in physics or math. The goal is to recreate the feeling of being in the same study room together, just like in college. So leave your camera on! You may come and go at any time during study hours.
Unlike our other events, this is not a facilitated or structured event and there is no specific topic of study. Sometimes people may decide to work on the same topic together, and other times everyone will be reading or solving problems on their own.
Although this is primarily a quiet study session, talking is allowed as long as it's on the topic(s) of study and with the purpose of asking a question or helping someone. Otherwise, please be courteous and respectful of other people by leaving your microphone off.
This event complements our other meetups, which are subject-specific, structured learning environments.
If you are new to Physics With Friends, before coming to this quiet self-study event we ask that you please come to one of our other meetups first so that we can get to know one another.
*** ZOOM LINK ***
The Zoom meeting URL is a pinned message in the #study-buddies channel. If you don't know what this means, it's because we haven't met you yet. Please come to one of our meetups and we'll help you get set up.2 attendees
•OnlineRoger Penrose's "The Road to Reality" discussion group
OnlineJoin us every other Tuesday for an open-ended casual discussion with our book club for Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality, the magnum opus of one of the greatest theoretical physicists of our time. In a single volume, Penrose takes the reader from basic mathematical and logical arguments through advanced math and then onto modern physics, relativity, quantum theory, and beyond.
Please have access to a copy of the book and have read at least one chapter prior to attending. We normally agree to read one particular chapter in advance and then spend our meeting time discussing that chapter and its problem set, sometimes branching off to other parts of the book. We support each other to go at whatever pace is comfortable and we discuss material that we find interesting or challenging. Those of us who want to work on the problem sets can help one another. Sometimes someone will want to make a mini-presentation on a topic of their liking. We also maintain a private chat room for those who want to stay in touch between meetings.
This event is one of the many regular study topics in our Physics With Friends community. Please check all of our other events to find additional physics topics that you might want to study together!
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Past events
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