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Halliday and Resnick: Fundamentals of Physics

Morin: Introduction to Mechanics (a.k.a Red Morin)

Contains semi-rigorous formulation of Lagrangian Mechanics and applications
Contains concise summaries of concepts and lots of good practice problems with solutions

Kleppner and Kolenkow: An Introduction to Mechanics

Similar in level to Morin, but contains a more thorough discussion of concepts (structured like a standard textbook)

Purcell and Morin: Electricity and Magnetism

An accessible introduction to the Lagrangian method by Rice Porridge, written in the scope of olympiads. Currently updating so new content will be appended.
See this IPhO post for powerful examples of the Lagrangian method.

Gnädig: 200 Puzzling Physics Problems

Irodov: Problems in General Physics

A problem book with several hundred nontrivial exercises; highly recommended to accompany any textbook.

Krotov: Problems in Physics

Practically a twin of Irodov, but problems are solved more by physical intuition, which makes this a good alternative if you don't want to go through as much of the mathematical rigor that Irodov provides. Contains many Moscow Physics Olympiad problems.

MIT OpenCourseWare

Many recorded lectures free to watch, complete with supplementary lecture notes, exercises, and tests.

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