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PHYSICS WITH FUN

(very Short Introductions Various topics by various authors giving a quick overview of a
particular field such as nuclear physics, cosmology, relativity, etc)

• QED: the strange theory of light and matter Richard Feynman

• Six easy pieces/Six not so easy pieces Richard Feynman

• We Need to Talk About Kelvin by Marcus Chown

• Edge of physics by Anil Ananthaswamy

• Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku

•The Sleepwalkers: A history of man's changing vision of the universe

• 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know (Joanne Baker)

• Dead Famous: Albert Einstein and His Inflatable Universe (Dr Mike Goldsmith)

• Horrible Science Nick Arnold


• The Feynman Lectures

• Calculus A. J. Sadler

ALL-ROUNDER

• Fundamentals of Physics Halliday, Resnick, Walker

• UNIVERSITY PHYSICS

• Physics for scientis

• The Feynman Lectures on Physics (General topics) and associated problem sets

VECTOR CALCULUS

-Div, Grad, Curl and All That – An Informal Text on Vector Calculus

**CLASSICAL MECHANICS

-classical mechanics helbert goldstein


***ELECTRODYNAMICS

• Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics

****ELECTRONICS

-The art of electronics

-Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1,2,3

-Practical Electronics for Inventors, 4th Edition(must basics)

-Getting Started in Electronics(small basics book)

****WAVE

A.R.

OPTICS

A.R.
RELATIVITY

-General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists (Hobson, Efstathiou, Lasenby

ASTROPHYSICS

• An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics Carroll & Ostlie

QUANTUM MECHANICS

• Griffiths Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

• Griffiths Introduction to Elementary Particles

•How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog (Chad Orzel)

•Quantum Theory (David Bohm)


MODERN PHYSICS

• Griffiths Revolutions in 20th Century Physics

• Tippler & Llewellyn Modern Physics

SOLID STATE PHYSICS

• Charles Kittel Solid State Physics (and thermal physics)

THERMODYNAMICS

Concepts in thermal physics stephen


Postgrad:

• Classical Electrodynamics J. D. Jackson (https://amzn.to/3nOvFny)

• Quantum Gravity Carlo Rovelli (https://amzn.to/36YCITH)

• String theory (haven’t thought of a good one yet)

Online Feynman lectures: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

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