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Mostly what other people have said here, I’ll recap:

— Solve exercises

— Learn the fundamentals (action principle, conservation laws, symmetries, statistical physics)

— With that, work on generalized coordinates, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics

— Brush up your calculus, vector calculus and linear algebra kung-fu

— Have a personal project to aim your efforts. For me, it was understanding precisely how nuclear weapons work (so I have to run many geometrical and hydrodynamic calculations). For you it might be something else.

— If you stuck with some textbook, grab another one, you will be able to return later with the new knowledge. Physics is fractal.

Best of luck!



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