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You might like to check the course notes
in MIT or look atthe Turkish translation of these notes.
Do not miss the videos of the course
by astrophysicist Walter Lewin!
If you are taking the course for the
second time you might like to see the article Five Frequently Fatal Freshman
Physics Fantasies
Links related to Lecture 1:
1-Train yourself to be fluent in "back of the envelope" calculations
(Fermi problems) using
"order of magnitude
physics."
Lecture notes by Sanjoy Mahayan or look here. A nice book
called Guesstimation by Weinstein and Adam
2- Wiki article on dimensional analysis
3-Wiki
article on International System of
Units
4-Wiki
article on SI prefixes
5-Wiki
article on significant
figures
6- Wiki article on Accuracy and
precision
Lecture slides on Newtonian Mechanics
Continuous
Mass Distributions