Manstein

Thanks for all the answers, I will take them in account.

I had a strong background on waves (electrical engineering and acoustics) before starting QM, it helped me a lot. Learn as much as you can there, including optics, acoustics, if possible radiowaves.

 

In maths, linear algebra and Fourier transforms - to begin with, as there is no limit... Hamiltonian: I saw it first with QM, and I too wish I had seen it at work in classical mechanics before.

 

Electromagnetism is important independently of QM, and interesting, so learn it anyway. It's difficult (more precisely, antennas are difficult, just like music intruments are the difficult part of acoustics) but less abstract than QM.

 

I strongly suggest that you learn through experiments kits in parallel with books or before. They are often very well made and give a different comprehension of science, one that is more useable than textbooks. They exist for electromagnetism and for optics at least.

 

About QM: many, many people tried to explain it using comparisons or images, but these ("surfer and wave at the same time", or the "wave or particle duality" dialectics...) only add complexity. Just go straight to the mathematical description.

Just go straight to the mathematical description? I allways like to have an intuitive feeling and a real understanding of what is going on... Is that that hard in quantum mechanics?

When I was your age, after mechanics we divided physics into four.

 

Heat, Light, Sound, Electricity & Magnetism.

 

Nowadays we would add Particle Physics and Quantum Theory.

 

Again, after mechanics these could be studied in any order.

Ok, thanks. But isn't electromagnetism required to study quantum mechanics? I assumed quantum mechanics is based on some electromagnetism equations...

Thanks for the answer.

But don't some branches need other branches (not mechanics) to be understood?

Then it would be better to learn some branches first.

I appologise for my poor English, it is not my first language, and also for posting this here, i wasn't sure where to do so.

I'm 15 years old and I love physics so I learned calculus 1, calculus 2 and classical mechanics by myself and I am now learning electricity and magnetism. I do it as a hobbie, for fun, and I want to be a theoreticall physicist one day (being paid to have fun ).

I want to learn relativity and quantum mechanics. So my question is, after i finish with Electricity and Magnetism what order of subjects should I follow untill I reach quantum mechanics? What other physics should I learn before this two topics?

Thank you all and again, I'm sorry for posting this here.