» Sun May 13, 2012 9:54 pm
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Physics-David-Halliday/dp/0471216437/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1330479286&sr=8-2 by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker is what I used to study the basics for the Physics GRE, and I would highly recommend it if your textbook svcks. The 2005 edition goes for like $20 on Amazon (there is no reason to get the latest edition - basic Physics hasn't changed in the past 7 years).
I haven't used it, but http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/ has all the materials and lectures from a lot of their classes available online, so that might be worth checking out.
Also, http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html?pop=yes&pid=549# is a series of half hour videos featuring lectures from Caltech along with animations and historical background. I'll warn you that you'll spend more time than you ever wanted to watching footage of actors in period costume playing famous physicists writing furiously at their desks. However, the lectures give a good conceptual and historical background (not much math though), and are a good resource when you have no idea what the hell is going on.
Good luck. Physics is hell at first, but not so bad once you start to get a sense for it.