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Hello. As I've said a few times before on this forum, I'm 16 years old and I'm teaching myself physics because in my school everything is taught too slowly for my taste. I have a pretty decent grasp of differential and integral calculus of one variable and I have a solid understanding of classical mechanics (calculus-based, of course). What order should I learn other branches of physics in? I already got a pretty decent introduction to special relativity (from the same book I used to teach myself classical mechanics- An Introduction to Mechanics by Kleppner and Kolenkow). So in what order should I learn more advanced branches? I probably want to learn about electrodynamics, optics, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics in the next year (or two, depending on how much work I put in). Also, if you could recommend textbooks (with similar difficulty and depth to Kleppner and Kolenkow, which I thought was perfect for me), that would be really appreciated. I know that I'll probably get either Purcell or Griffiths to learn electrodynamics (or maybe both), but I'm not sure for the other subjects.
Thank you
Thank you