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Classical Electrodynamics Third Edition
John David Jackson
Wiley, 1998
The standard
+ good content but a very hard read.
This is just the standard textbook for graduate-level electromagnetism and electrodynamics. Obviously, it's not for the beginner. For an excellent undergraduate-level treatment of the subject, see Griffiths. The Jackson text is one I've wanted to own for a long time. It's in every physics ...
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Gravitation (Physics Series)
Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, ...
W. H. Freeman, 1973
Amazing - Not for beginners
+ The best book on General Relativity
+ Gravitation
As a child I used to ask my father "Does space go on forever? And if it doesn't, what is on the otherside??' My father of course had no idea. It has since been a subtle quest of mine to fine answers to these questions. I, as well as every person on this planet, have heard Einstein's name ...
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Quantum Mechanics (2 vol. set)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, ...
Wiley-Interscience, 2006
THE Quantum Mechanics Reference
+ Hard to beat
+ Quantum Mechanics, Volume 1 by B. Dui, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu
If you're looking for a one-stop reference for your physics library, this is it. Complements ANY textbook, in fact it stands on its own better than any other quantum mechanics textbook that I've used so far (Including Sakurai, Bransden-Joachain, Gasiorowizc, Griffiths). The notation is convenient ...
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Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy (Series of Books in Astronomy)
Frank H. Shu
University Science Books, 1982
Shu's Lectures on Astrophysics
+ Regarding Science-Ejected Vitalism, 1982:
+ Excellent introduction
+ A classic astronomy and astrophysics textbook
+ The basis for introductory astrophysics textbooks
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Chaos and Integrability in Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction
Michael Tabor
Wiley-Interscience, 1989
Great book !
This is a very good book. Has a lot of relevant stuffs covered and it's at least light years ahead of similar books in terms of digestibility. Tightly-written yet not patronisingly simple. Check it out.
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Modern Physics
Paul A. Tipler, Ralph Llewellyn
W. H. Freeman, 2002
A flawed but otherwise decent introduction to the subject
Modern Physics is a funny concept. What Physicists consider to be modern consists of discoveries that in some instances happened just over a century ago. In this view what makes these topics and discoveries modern is not their relative age, but rather the conceptual shift from the Physics that has ...
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Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics
Francis Halzen, Alan D. Martin
Wiley, 1984
Best book for preparing for a test in particle physics
+ A very good book, but not entirely self contained
+ Good book on particle physics
+ Really the best book for an undergraduate course in Advanced Particle Physics
+ Would have been great if only...
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The Quantum Theory of Fields 3 volume set (v. 1-3)
Steven Weinberg
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Classic
This will certainly be a classic reference book. However, it focuses on the underlying formalism. So it is not going to be overly useful as an education tool, unless you are looking into the fundamentals which support the theory.
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Classical Mechanics (3rd Edition)
Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, ...
Addison Wesley, 2001
Excellent
+ Powerful, somewhat old-fashioned
An outstandingly good quality book, both in content and in the book itself. Very satisfied.
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Lens Design Fundamentals
Rudolf Kingslake
Academic Press, 1978
Good foundational work, but not for everyone
If you thumb through this bad boy, you'll notice that there's a lot of raytracing going on. Consequently, this is a great book from which to learn about raytracing, specifically the (y-nu) (or "ynu") paraxial method. I made the effort of setting up a ynu table in Excel and used the equations to ...
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Principles of Condensed Matter Physics
P. M. Chaikin, T. C. Lubensky
Cambridge University Press, 2000
I know why Onslow is more interested in this book than Daisy
+ Wonderful and deep approach to soft condensed matter physics
+ incorrectly labelled a "soft matter" book
+ Exhaustive treatment of soft matter physics!
+ Best basic condensed matter textbook
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String Theory, Vol. 2 : Superstring Theory and Beyond (Cambridge
Joseph Polchinski
Cambridge University Press, 1998
Perfect book!
+ The definitive introduction to String Theory
+ Great book, wish there was more
+ Currently one of the standards
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Fluid Mechanics, Second Edition: Volume 6 (Course of Theoretical Physics)
L D Landau, E.M. Lifshitz
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1987
An Important Book in Physics
+ A must-have Fluid Mechanics Book
+ Fast and good
+ Classic on fluid mechanics
+ A solid text on fluid mechanics
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Introductory Quantum Mechanics (4th Edition)
Richard Liboff
Addison Wesley, 2002
Extremely good for most people studying quantum
+ Best used as a QM reference text
+ the qm encyclopedia
Unless you're looking to go straight to field theory or some other "pure" form of quantum, this is probably one of the best books you can pick up, particularly for people who are actually going to use quantum mechanics to calculate real things (solids, atoms, molecules, etc.). This is not to say ...
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Principles of Magnetic Resonance (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences) (v. 1)
Charles P. Slichter
Springer, 1996
book is by excellent teacher
+ One to get for understanding magnetic resonance spectroscopy
+ "The Must-to-be-read"
+ The solid-state physicists NMR bible
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