Best Sets of Physics Lecture Notes and Articles This post is inspired by this math.se post.
Let me start by apologizing if there is another thread on phys.se that subsumes this.
I often find that I learn best from sets of lecture notes and short articles. There are three particular reasons that make me feel this way.


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*Lecture notes and articles often times take on a very delightful informal approach. They generally take time to bring to the reader's attention some interesting side fact that would normally be left out of a standard textbook (lest it be too big). Lecture notes and articles are where one generally picks up on historical context, overarching themes (the "birds eye view"), and neat interrelations between subjects.

*It is the informality that often allows writers of lecture notes or expository articles to mention some "trivial fact" that every textbook leaves out. Whenever I have one of those moments where a definition just doesn't make sense, or a theorem just doesn't seem right it's invariably a set of lecture notes that sets everything straight for me. People tend to be more honest in lecture notes, to admit that a certain definition or idea confused them when they first learned it, and to take the time to help you understand what finally enabled them to make the jump.

*Often times books are very outdated. It takes a long time to write a book, to polish it to the point where it is ready for publication. Notes often times are closer to the heart of research, closer to how things are learned in the modern sense.
It is because of reasons like this that I find myself more and more carrying around a big thick manila folder full of stapled together articles and why I keep making trips to Staples to get the latest set of notes bound.
So, if anyone knows of any set of lecture notes, or any expository articles that fit the above criteria, please do share!
I'll start:
People/Places who have a huge array of fantastic notes:
't Hooft
John Baez

The Feynman lectures on Physics:



*The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I: mainly mechanics, radiation, and heat. 

*The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II: mainly electromagnetism and matter.

*The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III: quantum mechanics.


Introductory Courses



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*Introductory Classical Mechanics



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*http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/301.pdf

*http://space.wccnet.edu/~gkapp/

*http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01-physics-i-classical-mechanics-fall-1999/

*http://academics.smcvt.edu/abrizard/Classical_Mechanics/Notes_070707.pdf

*http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dleen/mathsoc/pdf/Notes.pdf





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*Optics and Thermodynamics &  Electromagnetism



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*http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/316/316.pdf

*http://seagull.ukzn.ac.za/~mukaror/

*http://www.sicyon.com/resources/library/pdf/optics.pdf





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*Waves and Oscillations 



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*http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/315/Waves.pdf

*http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~bernd/F12MS3/

*http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/152.mf1i.spring02/OscWavesIndex.htm





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*Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics



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*http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/sm1/statmech.pdf

*http://www.spms.ntu.edu.sg/PAP/courseware/statmech.pdf

*http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys603/kelly/

*http://stp.clarku.edu/notes/





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*Electronics



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*http://openbookproject.net/electricCircuits/

*http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/music-and-theater-arts/21m-380-music-and-technology-live-electronics-performance-practices-spring-2011/lecture-notes/

*http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~rayfrey/432/DigitalNotes.pdf

*http://courseware.ee.calpoly.edu/~jzhang/EE112/

*http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee130/sp07/lecture.html

*http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/kghadiri/EE122/Class_notes.htm

*http://www.cramster.com/course-introduction-lecture-note-r30-6638.aspx





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*Computational Physics



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*http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.pdf

*http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/CourseWare/EssentialMathematica/

*http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/people/a.mackinnon/Lectures/compphys/

*http://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/numerical.html





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*Introductory Quantum Mechanics



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*http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qmech/qmech.pdf

*http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/home.html

*http://walet.phy.umist.ac.uk/QM/QM.pdf

*Video:  http://physicsstream.ucsd.edu/courses/spring2003/physics130a/

*http://quantummechanics.ucsd.edu/ph130a/130_notes.pdf

*http://www.lecture-notes.co.uk/susskind/quantum-entanglements/





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*Classical And Quantum Optics



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*http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/ap216/lectures/lectures.html

*http://atomoptics.uoregon.edu/~dsteck/teaching/optics/





(from my Blog http://quantizd.blogspot.com)
So my goal is to ameliorate this list by adding more resources.
Thank you.
 A: Feynman also lectured on applied math
and astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology.
(These notes are not part of the Feynman lectures on physics.)
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*Loop Quantum Gravity



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*http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0210094/

*http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0402

*http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9710008

*http://academics.hamilton.edu/physics/smajor/Papers/read_guide.html

*http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/pullin/gambinilaplata.pdf

*http://cgpg.gravity.psu.edu/people/Ashtekar/articles/rovelli03.pdf

*http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3660

*http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0404018

*http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910079

*http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0410054

*http://cgpg.gravity.psu.edu/people/Ashtekar/articles.html

*http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin03/smolin03_index.html





*Super-Symmetry Lecture Notes 



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*http://www.cpt.dur.ac.uk/~georg/ss/ss.htm

*http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~aitchiso/susy.pdf

*arXiv paper on ABC of Super-Symmetry -http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0905/0905.4630v1.pdf

*http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1491

*http://www.tuhep.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/~francescaB/LECTURES/LN_SUSY.html

*http://www.christiansaemann.de/files/LecturesOnSUSY.pdf

*http://statistics.roma2.infn.it/~fucito/appunti/derendinger.pdf




MORE NOTES (Miscellaneous) 



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*Motion Mountain Text for Physics : http://www.motionmountain.net/





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*Kip Thorne's Lecture Notes, Videos and Problems On Gravitational Waves :  http://elmer.caltech.edu/ph237/





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*Set Of Lecture Notes on All Physics Topics (Intro to Advanced Undergrad From U of T at Austin) : http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching.html





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*Lectures on Harmonic Analysis -  http://www.math.ubc.ca/~ilaba/wolff/notes_march2002.pdf 





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*Tons of Course notes By John Baez -  http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/QG.html  and  http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/





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*Tons of Course Notes BY Warren Siegel - http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/plan.html





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*Lots of Presious Links By Dr. B.S Ramachandra - http://www.drbsramachandra.com/apps/links/





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*Huge Number of Physics E-Books -  http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=2, and http://www.freebookcentre.net/Physics/Physics-Books-Online.html





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*Analytical Mechanics -



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*http://www.physto.se/~ingemar/anmek.pdf  

*http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~rollinsr/phys605/  





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*David Tong's Lecture notes from Cambridge - http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/dynamics.htm





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*Caltech notes -  http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~golwala/ph106ab/ph106ab_notes.pdf





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*Guide To Theoretical Physics 



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*http://michaelhallsmoore.com/blog/Guide_To_Theoretical_Physics

*http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html

*http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0810.1019 

* http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html





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*NPTEL Physics Courses (Some of the topics are under development) : http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses.php?disciplineId=115





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*MIT OCW courses : http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#physics 





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*http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Services/Class/PHYS481/lecture.html





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*James Binney's Lecture Courses : http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/JamesBinney/lectures.html





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*Foundations of Math Physics : http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/courses/cmms30/7CCMMS30.html





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*Some good Notes : http://v37s3b4h7dn47s37hg1br4h7rs7n3du7s8nu.unbf.ca/~n28zb/Some%20good%20lectures%20and%20notes.html





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*http://www.hepl.harvard.edu/~morii/phys151/lectures/





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*Michael Fowler's Notes : http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/






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*Free university lectures : http://lecturefox.com/physics/?page=1





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*Lecture Notes and Reviews (Cambridge) : http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bds10/res_lec.html





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*http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?lang=e&n1=courses&n2=scripts





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*http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/JohnCardy/





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*Homepage of Michael Goerz : http://michaelgoerz.net/studies/theoretical-physics.html





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*http://www.jpoffline.com/mphysnotes.php





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*John Preskill Lecture Notes : http://theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/





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*http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/





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*http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/lnotes/





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*http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Education/Tutorials/





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*http://users.ictp.trieste.it/~pub_off/lectures/





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*http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~nrc25/tp2/index.html





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*http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/books/wwwbrief?t=Lectures+Notes+in+Physics





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*http://home.thep.lu.se/~bijnens/fytn04/





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*http://www.dctech.com/physics/lecture_notes.php





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*http://freescienceonline.blogspot.in/





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*http://www.nuigalway.ie/physics/links_lectNotes.html





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*http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/topcites/2010/alltime.shtml





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*RECOMMENDED PHYSICS BOOKS 



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*http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/booklist.html

*http://www.amazon.com/Some-great-books-physics-self-study/lm/R8EJA6K1IP4J2

*http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=53126    

*http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Major-Musts/lm/2W8A6WNYI6D3Q

*http://www.amazon.com/best-physics-books/lm/13XQ7BUZB1DI3

*http://michel-lussier.hubpages.com/hub/textbooks-for-the-standard-physics-curriculum 

*http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicphys.htm




