Writing Physics
lassp.cornell.edu
lassp.cornell.edu
According to Wikipedia Lev Landau ranked physicists on a log scale - Newton was 0, Einstein 1 and Mermin placed himself on the scale at a 4.5
Ashcroft has a rather different personality from Mermin, but he's also a great lecturer. I took his graduate stat mech class. Man, do I wish there were videos of that, or at least a textbook.
Man, was that my all-time personal peak of geekiness. Jackson himself was quite bemused.
If we're going to name-drop great physics teachers and texts, though, let me recommend Roald Hoffman. His course in bonding in solids was my favorite science course ever -- and he even wrote a book! ("Solids and Surfaces") It was the highest-numbered course in the chemistry department -- the one where chemistry and physics become aspects of the same thing -- and he used a deliberately simplified but intuitively clear computational model and a great many examples to give you a mental picture of how bonding works, and how band structure is a special case of chemical bonding. One of these days I've got to reread that book.
Amusingly, I signed up and took Hoffman's course without even knowing, at the time, that the guy had won a Nobel prize and hosted a PBS series. Cornell could work that way sometimes.
(God, textbooks are criminally priced. I just discovered that my copy of Solids and Surfaces is worth $100, used, on Amazon. That's awful. As if recommending graduate-level science textbooks wasn't hard enough...)