Some useful links for physics students

Antoine Dierckx — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Some useful links for physics students

This page brings together some of the resources I have found most useful. The list is personal, but I hope it can also be useful to other students and researchers.

1. Foundations & Lecture Notes

These are some of the best resources I know for learning or revisiting the essentials:

David Tong - Lecture Notes: The definitive standard for clear, rigorous introductions to everything from Classical Dynamics to Quantum Field Theory.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Old but gold.
Paul’s Online Math Notes: High school level.
MIT OpenCourseWare: Check out the course on general relativity, it’s fantastic.
LibreTexts Physics: Peer-authored, open-access textbook content.

2. Advanced Lectures & Seminars

If like me the reviews on arXiv make you a bit anxious, these are a great way to get a more digestible overview of the latest developments in various topics:

Perimeter Institute (PIRSA): A massive archive of recorded seminars and specialized courses.
Collège de France - Physique et Chimie: High-level academic seminars and colloquia.
General Relativity II (Piotr Chruściel): All about black holes.
Les Samedis de la Physique (Bruxelles): High-quality lectures from ULB professors.

3. Career Growth: Internships & Research

If you’re looking to do early research or find internships, check out these resources:

CERN Summer Student Programme: Particle physics stuff in Geneva.
DESY Summer Student Programme: Particle physics stuff in Hamburg.
ESA Student Internships: Space science at the European Space Agency.
PSI Start (Perimeter Institute): Theoretical physics research at Perimeter Institute in Canada.

4. Free books

All the nice textbooks for free, because knowledge should be free:

Sci-Hub: For academic papers.
Library Genesis and Z-Library: For books.