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Question: Could a polyamorous thruple form an LLC or an S-corporation as an alternative to marriage and property ownership? A, B, and C are in a committed relationship to one another. How should they structure their assets, liabilities, duties to one another?No, you can’t.You are trying to circumvent the laws concerning bigamy, marriage and probate in your state and that attempt would invalidate your contract. A contract cannot be valid if its intent or results violate the law. An attorney would be able to explain that to you in detail.You might consider simply giving the third-party in your relationship limited power of attorney and then adding that person to your respective wills. Frankly, unless you are absolutely certain that this relationship will last more than a few years, you may wish to forego any complicated legal entanglements.

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Lots of people who don't actually study physics in the answers here. So my 2 cents. I'm currently an undergraduate student in physics, so I'll tell you what I got through.Let us assume you have the basics of early high school mathematics well understood (algebra, trigonometry, geometry, notion of functions etc, ie precalculus). A very decent intro to physics without the mathematical baggage of calculus "Physics with Principles and Applications" by Giancoli. But as a physicist you want to learn calculus. In language of university courses you need calculus I to IV (differential calculus and integral calculus in one variable, infinite series, power series, Taylor's theorem, Differential calculus and integral calculus in several variables, vector calculus, stokes theorem, and its related formulas, and ordinary differential equations). A very popular treatment of these subjects is written by James stewart. He covers all of these topics in his texts in enough detail for you to be able to use them correctly (for the most part) but doesn't get into the finer details of the subject. For more slightly more detailed approach (where you use deltas and epsilons) you could try looking at Calculus by Salas (i think, i forget rest of his  name) and "advanced calculus" by folland (those are what what my university uses as a more advanced treatment). for calculus that is taught to aspiring mathematicians "Calculus" by Spivak and "Analysis on Manifolds" goes into very details of how to properly do the math. Most of it you don't need for intro to physics, but it's good to know those exist.Another subject you need to learn is linear algebra, from definition of vector spaces up to eigenvalues and diagonalization and spectral theorem. there are many "for scientists" books out there, for example one by Keith Nicholson which will cover every thing you need to use these tools. There are also very good texts that gets into the details of what is linear algebra and rigorous treatment of the subject (again, written for mathematicians). "Linear algebra done right"  by axler is one such example which does a really good job of what and why and rigor. I recommend going through it even if your aspirations aren't in mathematics.The final bit is differential equations, the standard seems to be "ordinary differential equations" by tenebaum, you don't need to finish the whole book, just maybe get through the basic techniques and you can refer back to it as needed. Those are the most basic bits of mathematics you need. though you don't need to learn all of it before learning physics, once you understand single variable calculus you can start with university level physics texts. the popular one is by Resnick and Halliday, or the one by Freedman is also decent. They give a broad coverage of the many different fields of physics. ** When going through textbooks be sure to do the exercises, do most of them if you can't do all of them, otherwise you will not learn anything**After that you still need more math, and more physics. for the extra you will need include fourier analysis, partial differential equations (PDEs) and other bits and pieces. For PDEs it is probably worth going through a book on it (and you probably should), but for other little bits there exists "mathematical tool books" for physicists. One I really enjoyed was by Mary Boas, which has really clear explanations. It's written at an undergraduate level, though such books do exist at graduate level (eg Byron and Fuller)then you get to the core of undergraduate physics, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism and quantum mechanics. these you need to read separate books, and I will list them in increasing order of sophistication, the last one being near graduate level.Classical mechanicsintro: Morin or John Taylorintermediate/advanced: Goldstein  or Landau&LifshitzE&Mintro: Griffiths (very good book, will provide all of e&m you need for undergrad)advanced: Jackson (notoriously hard, used typically for graduate courses, I have not read it personally) or you could try Landau and Lifshitz's volume on Classical theory of Fields, a bit more mathematicalQuantum mechanicsintro: Griffiths (very easy intro, not too much mathematical baggage, very computational)intermediate: Shankar (somewhat more indepth than Griffiths)Advanced: Sakurai (I heard it's quite advanced, have not read it)Of course at this level there other topics courses that become accessible to you, like intro to particles physics, optics,biophysics or condensed matter physics. at this level there can be no more than very brief introductions, going deeper would require graduate work.this is the sketch of what the core of undergraduate physics looks like, my "expertise" ends here. for beyond there are even more quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and other bizarre things. somewhere in middle of my posted timeline I'd recommend attending a formal institution for physics education, because to go further you really do need to join the physics community.

Where You Can Get-best quantum physics booksThe physics book list am recommending is culled from math ucr edu website. The physics books and physics science books list cuts across all physics departments like best physics books on general physics, physics textbooks on Classical Mechanics, physics books online on Quantum Mechanics ,Statistical Mechanics and Entropy and every other physics books best known.If your looking for aphysics books in pdf or pdf of physics books, STUVERA.COM has a good collection of physics books you can download free pf al charges.General Physics (so even mathematicians can understand it!)M.S. Longair: Theoretical concepts in physics, 1986.An alternative view of theoretical reasoning in physics for final year undergrads.Arnold Sommerfeld: Lectures on Theoretical PhysicsSommerfeld is God for mathematical physics.Richard Feynman: The Feynman lectures on Physics (3 vols)Highly recommended texts compiled from the undergraduate lecture course given by Feynman.Jearle Walker: The Flying Circus of PhysicsThere is the entire Landau and Lifshitz series. They have volumes on classical mechanics, classical field theory, E&M, QM, QFT, statistical physics, and more. Very good series that spans the entire graduate level curriculum.The New Physics edited by Paul Davies.This is one big book and it takes time to look through topics as diverse as general relativity, astrophysics, particle theory, quantum mechanics, chaos and nonlinearity, low-temperature physics and phase transitions. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book of recent (1989) physics articles, written by several physicists/astrophysicists.Richard Feynman: The Character of Physical LawIn his unique no-nonsense style, Feynman lectures about what physics is all about. Down-to-earth examples keep him from straying into the kind of metaphysics of which he is often critical.David Mermin: Boojums all the way through: Communicating science in prosaic languageFrank Wilczek and Betsy Devine: Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and variations from modern physicsGreg Egan: Permutation CityThis is a science fiction novel which has more to say about the philosophy of physics than do most philosophers and physicists.Don't read: The Physicist's World, by Thomas Grissom. We include this book as an example of a book that contains mostly incorrect physics. Grissom is a philosopher who has managed to publish a book about physics without knowing much physics, and it's a shame that he has taught the content of this book for some (many?) years to philosophy students, who must've gone out into the big world thinking that physicists must be incredibly dumb if they really believe the na�ve concepts that Grissom thinks physics is all about. This book gets all the big tenets of the subject wrong: Grissom thinks that special relativity is all about what is seen with the eye, a mistake that only first-year students are expected to make; he thinks that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle concerns the limits of measurement of quantities that are otherwise perfectly well defined; he thinks that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is an actual law that must be obeyed. And apparently he thinks that physicists spend a great deal of their time pondering the philosophy of the Ancient Greeks. All completely wrong.Classical MechanicsHerbert Goldstein: Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed, 1980.Intermediate to advanced; excellent bibliography.Introductory: The Feynman Lectures, vol 1.Keith Symon: Mechanics, 3rd ed., 1971 undergrad. levelH. Corbin and P. Stehle: Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed., 1960V.I. Arnold: Mathematical methods of classical mechanics, translated by K. Vogtmann and A. Weinstein, 2nd ed., 1989. The appendices are somewhat more advanced and cover all sorts of nifty topics. Deals with geometrical aspects of classical mechanicsR. Resnick and D. Halliday: Physics, vol 1, 4th Ed., 1993Excellent introduction without much calculus. Lots of problems and review questions.Marion & Thornton: Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, 2nd ed., 1970.Undergrad level. A useful intro to classical dynamics. Not as advanced as Goldstein, but with real worked-out examples.A. Fetter and J. Walecka: Theoretical mechanics of particles and continuagraduate level text, a little less impressive than Goldstein (and sometimes a little less obtuse)Kiran Gupta: Classical Mechanics of Particles and Rigid Bodies (1988)At the level of Goldstein but has many more worked-out problems at the end of each chapter as a good illustration of the material. Very useful for preparations for the PhD Qualifying Examination (I presume this is America only — ed.).Classical ElectromagnetismJackson: Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd ed., 1975Intermediate to advanced, the definitive graduate(US)/undergraduate(UK) text.Purcell: Berkeley Physics Series Vol 2.You can't beat this for the intelligent, reasonably sophisticated beginning physics student. He tells you on the very first page about the experimental proof of how charge does not vary with speed.plus... Chen, Min, Berkeley Physics problems with solutions.Reitz, Milford and Christy: Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory 4th ed., 1992Undergraduate level. Pretty difficult to learn from at first, but good reference, for some calculations involving stacks of thin films and their reflectance and transmission properties, for e.g. It's a good, rigorous text as far as it goes, which is pretty far, but not all the way. For example, they have a great section on optical properties of a single thin film between two dielectric semi-infinite media, but no generalization to stacks of films.Feynman: The Feynman Lectures, Vol. 2Lorrain & Corson: Electromagnetism, Principles and Applications, 1979Resnick and Halliday: Physics, vol 2, 4th ed., 1993Igor Irodov: Problems in Physics Excellent and extensive collection of EM problems for undergrads.William Smythe: Static and Dynamic Electricity, 3rd ed., 1968For the extreme masochists. Some of the most hair-raising EM problems you'll ever see. Definitely not for the weak-of-heart.Landau, Lifshitz, and Pitaevskii: Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, 2nd ed., 1984Same level as Jackson and with lots of material not in Jackson.Marion and Heald: Classical Electromagnetic Radiation, 2nd ed., 1980. Undergraduate or low-level graduate.Quantum MechanicsQED: The strange theory of light and matter Richard Feynman.One need no longer be confused by this beautiful theory. Richard Feynman gives an exposition that is once again and by itself a beautiful explanation of the theory of photon-matter interactions. Taken from a popular, non-technical lecture.Cohen-Tannoudji: Quantum Mechanics I & II&, 1977.Introductory to intermediate.Liboff: Introductory Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed., 1992Elementary level. Makes a few mistakes.Sakurai: Modern Quantum Mechanics, 1985Sakurai: Advanced Quantum Mechanics 1967Good as an introduction to the very basic beginnings of quantum field theory, except that it has the unfortunate feature of using "imaginary time" to make Minkowski space look Euclidean.J. Wheeler and W. Zurek (eds.): Quantum Theory and Measurement, 1983On the philosophical end. People who want to know about interpretations of quantum mechanics should definitely look at this collection of relevant articles.C. DeWitt and N. Graham: The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsPhilosophical. Collection of articles.H. Everett: Theory of the Universal WavefunctionAn exposition which has some gems on thermodynamics and probability. Worth reading for this alone.Bjorken and Drell: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics/ Relativistic Quantum Fields(for comments, see under Particle Physics)Ryder: Quantum Field Theory, 1984Guidry: Gauge Field Theories: an introduction with applications 1991Messiah: Quantum Mechanics, 1961Dirac: a] Principles of QM, 4th ed., 1958b] Lectures in QM, 1964c] Lectures on Quantum Field Theory, 1966Itzykson and Zuber: Quantum Field Theory, 1980Advanced level.Slater: Quantum theory: Address, essays, lectures.Good follow on to Schiff.note: Schiff, Bjorken and Drell, Fetter and Walecka, and Slater are all volumes in "International Series in pure and Applied Physics" published by McGraw-Hill.Pierre Ramond: Field Theory: A Modern Primer, 2nd edition. Volume 74 in the FiP series.The so-called "revised printing" is a must, as they must've rushed the first printing of the 2nd edition because it's full of inexcusable mistakes.Feynman: The Feynman Lectures, Vol. 3A non-traditional approach. A good place to get an intuitive feel for QM, if one already knows the traditional approach.Heitler & London: Quantum theory of moleculesJ. Bell: Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, 1987An excellent collection of essays on the philosophical aspects of QM.Milonni: The quantum vacuum: an introduction to quantum electrodynamics 1994.Holland: The Quantum Theory of MotionA good bet for a strong foundation in QM.John von Neumann: Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, 1955. For the more mathematical side of quantum theory, especially for those who are going to be arguing about measurement theory.Schiff: Quantum Mechanics, 3rd ed., 1968A little old. Not much emphasis on airy-fairy things like many worlds or excessive angst over Heisenberg UP. Straight up QM for people who want to do calculations. Introductory graduate level. Mostly Schrodinger eqn. Spin included, but only in an adjunct to Schrodinger. Not much emphasis on things like Dirac eqn, etc.Eisberg and Resnick: Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles, 2nd ed., 1985. This is a basic intro. to QM, and it is excellent for undergrads. It is not thorough with the mathematics, but fills in a lot of the intuitive stuff that most textbooks do not present.David Saxon: Elementary Quantum MechanicsA decent undergraduate (senior level) text.Bethe and Jackiw: Intermediate Quantum MechanicsP.W.Atkins: Quanta: A Handbook of conceptsShort entries, arranged alphabetically, emphasis on stuff relevant to quantum chemistry. Concentrates on the intuition and not the mathematics.James Peebles: Quantum Mechanics (1993)Intermediate level, based on lectures given by the author at Princeton. Very lucid exposition of the standard material with outstanding selection of mostly original problems at the end of each chapter.Statistical Mechanics and EntropyDavid Chandler: Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics, 1987R. Tolman: Prinicples of Statistical Mechanics. DoverKittel & Kroemer: Statistical ThermodynamicsBest of a bad lot.Reif: Principles of statistical and thermal physics.The big and little Reif statistical mechanics books. Big Reif is much better than Kittel & Kroemer. He uses clear language but avoids the handwaving that thermodynamics often gives rise to. More classical than QM oriented.Felix Bloch: Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics.Radu Balescu: Statistical PhysicsGraduate Level. Good description of non-equilibrium stat. mech. but difficult to read. It is all there, but often you don't realize it until after you have learned it somewhere else. Nice development in early chapters about parallels between classical and quantum statistical mechanics.Abrikosov, Gorkov, and Dyzaloshinski: Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical PhysicsHuw Price: Time's Arrow and Archimedes' PointSemi-popular book on the direction of time by a philosopher. It has been controversial because of its criticism of physicists such as Hawking for their "double standards" in dealing with the old problem on the origin of the arrow of time. It is thought provoking and clearly written.The following 6 books deal with modern topics in (mostly) classical statistical mechanics, namely, the central notions of linear response theory (Forster) and critical phenomena (the rest) at level suitable for beginning graduate students.Thermodynamics, by H. Callen.Statistical Mechanics, by R. K. PathriaHydrodynamic Fluctuations, Broken Symmetry, and Correlation Functions, by D. ForsterIntroduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, by H. E. StanleyModern Theory of Critical Phenomena, by S. K. MaLectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group, by N. GoldenfeldCondensed MatterCharles Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics (ISSP),introductoryAshcroft and Mermin: Solid State Physics,intermediate to advancedCharles Kittel: Quantum Theory of Solids.This is from before the days of his ISSP; it is a more advanced book. At a similar level. . .Solid State Theory, by W. A. Harrison (a great bargain now that it's published by Dover)Theory of Solids, by Ziman.Fundamentals of the Theory of Metals, by AbrikosovHalf of the book is on superconductivity.Many-Particle Physics, G. Mahan.Advanced.Special RelativityTaylor and Wheeler: Spacetime Physics Still the best introduction out there.Relativity: Einstein's popular exposition.Wolfgang Rindler: Essential Relativity. Springer 1977With a heavy bias towards astrophysics and therefore on a more moderate level formally. Quite strong on intuition.A.P. French: Special RelativityA thorough introductory text. Good discussion of the twin paradox, pole and the barn etc. Plenty of diagrams illustrating Lorentz-transformed coordinates, giving both an algebraic and geometrical insight to SR. (Seems to be out of print)Abraham Pais: Subtle is the Lord: The Science and Life of Albert EinsteinThe best technical biography of the life and work of Albert Einstein.Special Relativity and its Experimental Foundations Yuan Zhong ZhangSpecial relativity is so well established that its experimental foundation is often ignored. This book fills the gap and will be of relevance to many discussions in sci.physics.relativityParticle PhysicsKerson Huang: Quarks, leptons & gauge fields, World Scientific, 1982.Good on mathematical aspects of gauge theory and topology.L. B. Okun: Leptons and quarks, translated from Russian by V. I. Kisin, North-Holland, 1982.T. D. Lee: Particle physics and introduction to field theory.Itzykson: Particle PhysicsBjorken & Drell: Relativistic Quantum MechanicsOne of the more terse books. The first volume on relativistic quantum mechanics covers the subject in a blinding 300 pages. Very good if you really want to know the subject.Francis Halzen & Alan D. Martin: Quarks & Leptons,Beginner to intermediate, this is a standard textbook for graduate level courses. Good knowledge of quantum mechanics and special relativity is assumed. A very good introduction to the concepts of particle physics. Good examples, but not a lot of Feynman diagram calculation. For this, see Bjorken & Drell.Donald H. Perkins: Introduction to high energy physicsRegarded by many people in the field as the best introductory text at the undergraduate level. Covers basically everything with almost no mathematics.Close, Marten, and Sutton: The Particle Explosion A popular exposition of the history of particle physics with terrific photography.Christine Sutton: Spaceship NeutrinoA good, historical, largely intuitive introduction to particle physics, seen from the neutrino viewpoint.Mandl, Shaw: Quantum Field TheoryIntroductory textbook, concise and practically orientated. Used at many graduate departments as a textbook for the first course in QFT and a bare minimum for experimentalists in high energy physics. Chapters on Feynman diagrams and cross-section calculations particularly well written and useful.F.Gross: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field TheoryI am familiar with first part only (rel. QM) which I warmly recommend in conjunction with Mandl, since Klein-Gordon and Dirac Equation are explained in greater detail than in Mandl. One of my professors likes a lot the rest of the book too, but I haven't spent much time on it and can't comment. Published in 1993.S. Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol I,II, 1995 It's the usual Weinberg stuff: refreshing, illuminating viewpoints on every page. Perhaps most suitable for graduate students who already know some basics of QFT. Unfortunately, this book does not conform to Bjorken-Drell metric.M.B. Green, J.H. Schwarz, E. Witten: Superstring Theory (2 vols)Although these two volumes do not touch the important new developments in string theories they are still the best texts for the basics. To keep up with this fast developing subject it is necessary to download the papers and reviews as hep-th e-prints.M. Kaku: Strings, Conformal Fields and TopologyJust a little more up-to-date than GSWSuperstrings: A Theory of Everything ed P.C.W. DaviesThrough transcripts of interviews with Schwarz, Witten, Green, Gross, Ellis, Salam, Glashow, Feynman and Weinberg we learn about string theory and how different physicists feel about its prospects as a TOE. This also predates the new developments which revolutionised string theory after 1993.A Pais: Inward Bound This can be regarded as a companion volume to his biography of Einstein (see special relativity section). It covers the history of particle physics through the twentieth century but is best for the earlier half.R.P. Crease, C.C. Mann: The Second Creation 1996Another history of particle physics in the twentieth century. This one is especially good on the development of the standard model.. Full of personal stories taken from numerous interviews, it is difficult to put down.L. Lederman, D. Teresi: The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? 2006This book describes the search for the Higgs Boson at Fermilab. It describes what the Higgs is and gives some background to the subject of particle physics. It also gives an account of some more general physics history.General RelativityMeisner, Thorne and Wheeler: Gravitation W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco 1973Usually referred to as MTW. It has two tracks for different levels. A famous work in the subject whose main strength is probably its various asides, historical and otherwise. While it has much interesting reading, it is not a book to learn relativity from: its approach is all over the place, and it pushes gawdy notation which no one actually uses to do anything useful.Robert M. Wald: Space, Time, and Gravity: the Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes.A good non-technical introduction, with a nice mix of mathematical rigor and comprehensible physics.Schutz: A First Course in General Relativity.A readable and useful book, to a point. The 1988 edition, at least, unfortunately has a tangled approach to its Lambda index notation that is wrong in places. Schutz goes to great lengths to convince the reader of the usefulness of one-forms, but is clearly unaware that everything he does with them can be done in shorter time using vectors alone. Beware the show-stopping typos in the Riemann components for the Schwarzschild metric on page 315. The discussion about Riemann tensor signs on page 171 is also wrong, and will give you wrong results if you apply it. Indeed, that discussion is indicative of a general na�vet� in the book's early mathematics as a whole.Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology A good book that takes a somewhat different approach to the subject.Hans Ohanian: Gravitation & Spacetime (recently back in print)For someone who actually wants to learn to work problems, ideal for self-teaching, and math is introduced as needed, rather than in a colossal blast.Robert Wald: General RelativityA more advanced textbook than Wald's earlier book, appropriate for an introductory graduate course in GR. It strikes just the right balance, in my opinion, between mathematical rigor and physical intuition. It has great mathematics appendices for those who care about proving theorems carefully, and a good introduction to the problems behind quantum gravity (although not to their solutions). I think it's MUCH better than either MTW or Weinberg.Clifford Will: Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the TestNon-technical account of the experimental support for GR, including the "classic three tests", but going well beyond them.Kip Thorne: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous LegacyAn award-winning popular account of black holes and related objects with many historical anecdotes from the author's personal experiences. The book is famous for the final sections about time travel through wormholes.Ignore Dirac's small book on lectures in GR, unless you like reading books that have almost no discussion of their mathematical content (and almost no discussion of anything else, either). It's a sure bet that this book was only published because Dirac wrote it.Mathematical MethodsMorse and Feshbach: Methods of Theoretical Physics. This book used to be hard to find, but can now be bought atMathews and Walker: Mathematical Methods of Physics. An absolute joy for those who love math, and very informative even for those who don't. [This has been severely disputed!--ed]Arfken: Mathematical Methods for Physicists Academic PressGood introduction at graduate level. Not comprehensive in any area, but covers many areas widely. Arfken is to math methods what numerical recipes is to numerical methods — good intro, but not the last word.Zwillinger: Handbook of Differential Equations. Academic PressKind of like CRC tables but for ODEs and PDEs. Good reference book when you've got a differential equation and want to find a solution.Gradshteyn and Ryzhik: Table of Integrals, Series, and Products AcademicTHE book of integrals. Huge, but useful when you need an integral.F.W. Byron and R. Fuller: Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics (2 vols) is a really terrific text for self-study; it is like a baby version of Morse & Feshbach.Nuclear PhysicsPreston and Bhaduri: Structure of the NucleusBlatt and Weisskopf: Theoretical Nuclear PhysicsDeShalit and Feshbach: Theoretical Nuclear PhysicsThis is serious stuff. Also quite expensive even in paper. I think the hard cover is out of print. This is volume I (structure). Volume II (scattering) is also available.Satchler: Direct Nuclear ReactionsWalecka: Theoretical Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (1995)Covers advanced topics in theoretical nuclear physics from a modern perspective and includes results of past 20 years in a field which makes it unique. Not an easy material to read but invaluable for people seeking an updated review of the present status in the field.Krane: Introductory nuclear physicsIntroductory-to-intermediate level textbook in basic nuclear physics for senior undergraduates. Good, clear and relatively comprehensive exposition of "standard" material: nuclear models, alfa, beta, gamma radioactivity, nuclear reactions. . . Last edition issued in 1988.CosmologyJ. V. Narlikar: Introduction to Cosmology.1983 Jones & Bartlett Publ.For people with a solid background in physics and higher math, THE introductory text, IMHO, because it hits the balance between mathematical accuracy (tensor calculus and stuff) and intuitive clarity/geometrical models very well for grad student level. Of course, it has flaws but only noticeable by the Real Experts (TM). . .Hawking: A Brief History of Time The ghost-written book that made Popular Science popular, but an odd mixture of easy physics and very advanced physics.Weinberg: First Three MinutesA very good book. It's pretty old, but most of the information in it is still correct.Timothy Ferris: Coming of Age in the Milky Way and The Whole ShebangMore Popular Science, and very readable.Kolb and Turner: The Early Universe.At a more advanced level, a standard reference. As the title implies, K&T cover mostly the strange physics of very early times: it's heavy on the particle physics, and skimps on the astrophysics. There's a primer on large-scale structure, which is the most active area of cosmological research, but it's really not all that good.Peebles: Principles of Physical Cosmology. Comprehensive, and on the whole it's quite a good book, but it's rather poorly organized. I find myself jumping back and forth through the book whenever I want to find anything.Black Holes and Warped Spacetime, by William J. Kaufmann III.This is a great, fairly thorough, though non-mathematical description of black holes and spacetime as it relates to cosmology. I was impressed by how few mistakes Kaufmann makes in simplifying, while most such books tend to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity.M.V. Berry: Principles of Cosmology and GravitationThis is very well written, and useful as an undergrad text.Dennis Overbye: Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos The unfinished history of converge on Hubble's constant is presented, from the perspective of competing astrophysics rival teams and institute, along with a lot of background on cosmology (a lot on inflation, for instance). A good insight into the scientific process.Joseph Silk: The Big BangI consider Silk's book an absolute must for those who want a quick run at the current state of big bang cosmology and some of the recent (1988) issues which have given so many of us lots of problems to solve. [of course that's eons out of date now--ed.]Bubbles, voids, and bumps in time: the new cosmology edited by James Cornell.This is quite a nice and relatively short read for some of the pressing issues (as of 1987-88) in astrophysical cosmology.T. Padmanabhan: Structure formation in the universeA no-nonsense book for those who want to calculate some problems strictly related to the formation of structure in the universe. The book even comes complete with problems at the end of each chapter. A bad thing about this book is that there isn't any coverage on clusters of galaxies and the one really big thing that annoys the hell outta me is that the bibliography for each chapter is all combined in one big bibliography towards the end of the book which makes for lots of page flipping.P.J.E. Peebles: The large-scale structure of the universeThis is a definitive book for anyone who desires an understanding of the mathematics required to develop the theory for models of large scale structure. The essential techniques in the description of how mass is able to cluster under gravity from a smooth early universe are discussed. While I find it dry in some places, there are noteworthy sections (e.g. statistical tests, n-point correlation functions, etc.).Andrzej Krasinski: Inhomogeneous Cosmological ModelsIf you are blinded by the dogma of the cosmological principle, this book is a real eye opener. A technical, historical and bibliographical survey of possible inhomogeous universes from solutions of general relativity.Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer: Origins: The lives and worlds of modern cosmologists, 1990Transcripts of interview with 27 of the most influential cosmologists from the past few decades. This book provides a unique record of how their cosmological theories have been formed.AstronomyHannu Karttunen et al. (eds.): Fundamental Astronomy.The very good book covering all of astronomy (also for absolute beginners) AND still going into a lot of detail for special work for people more involved AND presenting excellent graphics and pictures.Pasachoff: Contemporary AstronomyGood introductory textbook for the nontechnical reader. It gives a pretty good overview of the important topics, and it has good pictures.Frank Shu: The physical universe: an introduction to astronomyThis is a really grand book, which covers a huge sweep of physics in its 600-odd pages. Not only does it describe the field of astronomy in great detail, but it also covers in detail the laws of classical and quantum mechanics, atrophysics and stellar evolution, cosmology, special and general relativity; and last but not least, the biochemical basis of life. In fact the last few chapters would make a great addition to a biochemist's library!Kenneth R. Lang: Astrophysical formulae: a compendium for the physicist and astrophysicistHere is everything you wanted to know (and more!) about astrophysical formulae on a one-line/one-paragraph/one-shot deal. Of course, the formulae come complete with references (a tad old, mind you) but it's a must for everyone who's working in astronomy and astrophysics. You learn something new every time you flip through the pages!Plasma Physics(See Robert Heeter's sci.physics.fusion FAQ for details)Numerical Methods/SimulationsJohnson and Rees: Numerical Analysis Addison WesleyUndergraduate level broad intro.Numerical Recipes in X (X = C, Fortran, Pascal, etc.) Tueklosky and PressYoung and Gregory: A survey of Numerical Mathematics Dover 2 volumes.Excellent overview at grad. level. Emphasis toward solution of elliptic PDEs, but good description of methods to get there including linear algebra, matrix techniques, ODE-solving methods, and interpolation theory. Biggest strength is it provides a coherent framework and structure to attach most commonly used numerical methods. This helps understanding about why to use one method or another. 2 volumes.Hockney and Eastwood: Computer Simulation Using Particles Adam HilgerGood exposition of particle-in-cell (PIC) method and extensions. Applications to plasmas, astronomy, and solid state are discussed. Emphasis is on description of algorithms. Some results shown.Birdsall and Langdon: Plasma Physics via Computer SimulationsPIC simulation applied to plasmas. Source codes shown. First part is almost a tutorial on how to do PIC. Second part is like a series of review articles on different PIC methods.Tajima: Computational Plasma Physics: With Applications to Fusion and Astrophysics Addison Wesley Frontiers in physics Series.Algorithms described. Emphasis on physics that can be simulated. Applications limited to plasmas, but subject areas very broad, fusion, cosmology, solar astrophysics, magnetospheric physics, plasma turbulence, general astrophysics.Fluid DynamicsD.J. Tritton: Physical Fluid DynamicsG.K. Batchelor: Introduction to Fluid DynamicsS. Chandrasekhar: Hydrodynamics and Hydromagnetic StabilitySegel: Mathematics Applied to Continuum Mechanics Dover.Nonlinear Dynamics, Complexity, and ChaosPrigogine: Exploring ComplexityOr any other Prigogine book. If you've read one, you read most of of them (A Poincar� recurrence maybe?).Guckenheimer and Holmes: Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields SpringerBorderline phys./math. Advanced level. A nuts-and-bolts "how to" textbook. They let the topic provide all the razzmatazz, which is plenty if you pay attention and remember the physics that it applies to.Lichtenberg, A. J. and M. A. Lieberman (1982): Regular and Stochastic Motion. New York, Springer-Verlag.Ioos and Joseph: Elementary Stability and Bifurcation Theory. New York, Springer.Heinz Pagels: The Dreams Of ReasonHe is a very clear and interesting, captivating writer, and presents the concepts in a very intuitive way. The level is popular science, but it is still useful for physicists who know little of complexity.M. Mitchell Waldrop: ComplexityA popular intro to the subject of spontaneous orders, complexity and so on. Covers implications for economics, biology etc and not just physics.Optics (Classical and Quantum), LasersMax Born and Emil Wolf: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of PropagationStandard reference.Sommerfeld: For the more classically minded.Allen and Eberly: Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms.For quantum optics, the most readable but most limited.Goodman: Introduction to Fourier Optics.If it isn't in this book, it isn't Fourier optics.Quantum Optics and Electronics (Les Houches Summer School 1963 or 1964, but someone has claimed that Gordon and BsignNow, NY, are going to republish it in 1995), edited by DeWitt, Blandin, and Cohen- Tannoudji, is noteworthy primarily for Glauber's lectures, that form the basis of quantum optics as it is known today.Sargent, Scully, & Lamb: Laser PhysicsYariv: Quantum ElectronicsSiegman: LasersShen: The Principles of Nonlinear OpticsMeystre & Sargent: Elements of Quantum OpticsCohen-Tannoudji, Dupont-Roc, & Grynberg: Photons, Atoms and Atom-Photon Interactions.Hecht: Optics A very good introductory optics book.Practical Holography by Graham Saxby, Prentice Hall: New York; 1988.This is a very clear and detailed book that is an excellent introduction to holography for interested undergraduate physics people, as well as advanced readers, especially those who are interested in the practical details of making holograms and the theory behind them.Mathematical PhysicsLie Algebra, Topology, Knot Theory, Tensors, etc.These are books that are sort of talky and fun to read (but still substantial--some harder than others). These include things mathematicians can read about physics as well as vice versa. These books are different than the "bibles" one must have on hand at all times to do mathematical physics.Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Cecile DeWitt-Morette, and Margaret Dillard-Bleick: Analysis, manifolds, and physics (2 volumes)Something every mathematical physicist should have at his bedside until he knows it inside and out--but some people say it's not especially easy to read.Jean Dieudonne: A panorama of pure mathematics, as seen by N. Bourbaki, translated by I.G. Macdonald.Gives the big picture in mathematics.Robert Hermann: Lie groups for physicists, Benjamin-Cummings, 1966.George Mackey: Quantum mechanics from the point of view of the theory of group representations, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1984.George Mackey: Unitary group representations in physics, probability, and number theory.Charles Nash and S. Sen: Topology and geometry for physicists.B. Booss and D.D. Bleecker: Topology and analysis: the Atiyah-Singer index formula and gauge-theoretic physics.Bamberg and S. Sternberg: A Course of Mathematics for Students of PhysicsBishop & Goldberg: Tensor Analysis on Manifolds.Dodson & Poston: Tensor Geometry.Abraham, Marsden & Ratiu: Manifolds, Tensor Analysis and Applications.M. Nakahara: Topology, Geometry and Physics.Morandi: The Role of Topology in Classical and Quantum PhysicsSinger, Thorpe: Lecture Notes on Elementary Topology and GeometryL. Kauffman: Knots and Physics, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.C. Yang and M. Ge: Braid group, Knot Theory & Statistical Mechanics.D. Kastler: C-algebras and their applications to Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory.Courant and Hilbert: Methods of Mathematical Physics WileyReally a mathematics book in disguise. Emphasis on ODEs and PDEs. Proves existence, etc. Very comprehensive. 2 volumes.Cecille Dewitt is publishing a book on manifolds that should be out soon (maybe already is). Very high level, but supposedly of great importance for anyone needing to set the Feynman path integral in a firm foundation.Howard Georgi: Lie Groups for Particle Phyiscs Addison Wesley Frontiers in Physics Series.Synge and Schild.Atomic PhysicsMax Born: Atomic PhysicsA classic, though a little old.Gerhard Herzberg: Atomic spectra and atomic structure, Translated with the co-operation of the author by J. W. T.Spinks. — New York, Dover publications, 1944Old but good.E. U. Condon and G. H. Shortley: The theory of atomic spectra, CUP 1951G. K. Woodgate: Elementary atomic structure, 2d ed. Oxford: New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1983, c 1980Introductory level.Alan Corney: Atomic and laser spectroscopy, Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press, 1977Excellent,fairly advanced, large experimental bent, but good development of background. Good stuff on lasers (gas, dye)Low Temperature Physics, SuperconductivityThe Theory of Quantum Liquids, by D. Pines and P. NozieresSuperconductivity of Metals and Alloys, P. G. DeGennes A classic introduction.Theory of Superconductivity, J. R. SchriefferSuperconductivity, M. TinkhamExperimental techniques in low-temperature physics, by Guy K. White.This is considered by many as a "bible" for those working in experimental low-temperature physics.Are you burned out from endless hours of searching on the internet for list of physics books without much success? Are you frustrated at having to put so much effort in trying to get the best books in physics but ending up with mediocre ones? Have you given up already on the search for the best books about physics? Then get ready for this next surprising piece of information: Not only can you get the best quantum physics books but you can also get them at no cost at all. In other words, you can get them for free. So, if you are a college student studying towards a physics degree or a professional in physics career, your endless hours of search just ended. 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If you would have asked about a particular department I would have suggested you books of that department. As you have not specified the department I will provide provide books of major departments of physics:-M.S. Longair: Theoretical concepts in physics, 1986.An alternative view of theoretical reasoning in physics for final year undergrads.Arnold Sommerfeld: Lectures on Theoretical PhysicsSommerfeld is God for mathematical physics.Richard Feynman: The Feynman lectures on Physics (3 vols)Highly recommended texts compiled from the undergraduate lecture course given by Feynman.Jearle Walker: The Flying Circus of PhysicsThere is the entire Landau and Lifshitz series. They have volumes on classical mechanics, classical field theory, E&M, QM, QFT, statistical physics, and more. Very good series that spans the entire graduate level curriculum.The New Physics edited by Paul Davies.This is one big book and it takes time to look through topics as diverse as general relativity, astrophysics, particle theory, quantum mechanics, chaos and nonlinearity, low-temperature physics and phase transitions. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book of recent (1989) physics articles, written by several physicists/astrophysicists.Richard Feynman: The Character of Physical LawIn his unique no-nonsense style, Feynman lectures about what physics is all about. Down-to-earth examples keep him from straying into the kind of metaphysics of which he is often critical.David Mermin: Boojums all the way through: Communicating science in prosaic languageFrank Wilczek and Betsy Devine: Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and variations from modern physicsGreg Egan: Permutation CityThis is a science fiction novel which has more to say about the philosophy of physics than do most philosophers and physicists.Don't read: The Physicist's World, by Thomas Grissom. We include this book as an example of a book that contains mostly incorrect physics. Grissom is a philosopher who has managed to publish a book about physics without knowing much physics, and it's a shame that he has taught the content of this book for some (many?) years to philosophy students, who must've gone out into the big world thinking that physicists must be incredibly dumb if they really believe the naïve concepts that Grissom thinks physics is all about. This book gets all the big tenets of the subject wrong: Grissom thinks that special relativity is all about what is seen with the eye, a mistake that only first-year students are expected to make; he thinks that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle concerns the limits of measurement of quantities that are otherwise perfectly well defined; he thinks that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is an actual law thatmust be obeyed. And apparently he thinks that physicists spend a great deal of their time pondering the philosophy of the Ancient Greeks. All completely wrong.Classical MechanicsHerbert Goldstein: Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed, 1980.Intermediate to advanced; excellent bibliography.Introductory: The Feynman Lectures, vol 1.Keith Symon: Mechanics, 3rd ed., 1971 undergrad. levelH. Corbin and P. Stehle: Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed., 1960V.I. Arnold: Mathematical methods of classical mechanics, translated by K. Vogtmann and A. Weinstein, 2nd ed., 1989. The appendices are somewhat more advanced and cover all sorts of nifty topics. Deals with geometrical aspects of classical mechanicsR. Resnick and D. Halliday: Physics, vol 1, 4th Ed., 1993Excellent introduction without much calculus. Lots of problems and review questions.Marion & Thornton: Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, 2nd ed., 1970.Undergrad level. A useful intro to classical dynamics. Not as advanced as Goldstein, but with real worked-out examples.A. Fetter and J. Walecka: Theoretical mechanics of particles and continuagraduate level text, a little less impressive than Goldstein (and sometimes a little less obtuse)Kiran Gupta: Classical Mechanics of Particles and Rigid Bodies (1988)At the level of Goldstein but has many more worked-out problems at the end of each chapter as a good illustration of the material. Very useful for preparations for the PhD Qualifying Examination (I presume this is America only — ed.).Classical ElectromagnetismJackson: Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd ed., 1975Intermediate to advanced, the definitive graduate(US)/undergraduate(UK) text.Purcell: Berkeley Physics Series Vol 2.You can't beat this for the intelligent, reasonably sophisticated beginning physics student. He tells you on the very first page about the experimental proof of how charge does not vary with speed.plus... Chen, Min, Berkeley Physics problems with solutions.Reitz, Milford and Christy: Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory 4th ed., 1992Undergraduate level. Pretty difficult to learn from at first, but good reference, for some calculations involving stacks of thin films and their reflectance and transmission properties, for e.g. It's a good, rigorous text as far as it goes, which is pretty far, but not all the way. For example, they have a great section on optical properties of a single thin film between two dielectric semi-infinite media, but no generalization to stacks of films.Feynman: The Feynman Lectures, Vol. 2Lorrain & Corson: Electromagnetism, Principles and Applications, 1979Resnick and Halliday: Physics, vol 2, 4th ed., 1993Igor Irodov: Problems in Physics Excellent and extensive collection of EM problems for undergrads.William Smythe: Static and Dynamic Electricity, 3rd ed., 1968For the extreme masochists. Some of the most hair-raising EM problems you'll ever see. Definitely not for the weak-of-heart.Landau, Lifshitz, and Pitaevskii:Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, 2nd ed., 1984Same level as Jackson and with lots of material not in Jackson.Marion and Heald: Classical Electromagnetic Radiation, 2nd ed., 1980. Undergraduate or low-level graduate.Quantum MechanicsQED: The strange theory of light and matter Richard Feynman.One need no longer be confused by this beautiful theory. Richard Feynman gives an exposition that is once again and by itself a beautiful explanation of the theory of photon-matter interactions. Taken from a popular, non-technical lecture.Cohen-Tannoudji: Quantum Mechanics I & II&, 1977.Introductory to intermediate.Liboff: Introductory Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed., 1992Elementary level. Makes a few mistakes.Sakurai: Modern Quantum Mechanics, 1985Sakurai: Advanced Quantum Mechanics1967Good as an introduction to the very basic beginnings of quantum field theory, except that it has the unfortunate feature of using "imaginary time" to make Minkowski space look Euclidean.J. Wheeler and W. Zurek (eds.): Quantum Theory and Measurement, 1983On the philosophical end. People who want to know about interpretations of quantum mechanics should definitely look at this collection of relevant articles.C. DeWitt and N. Graham: The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsPhilosophical. Collection of articles.H. Everett: Theory of the Universal WavefunctionAn exposition which has some gems on thermodynamics and probability. Worth reading for this alone.Bjorken and Drell: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics/ Relativistic Quantum Fields(for comments, see under Particle Physics)Ryder: Quantum Field Theory, 1984Guidry: Gauge Field Theories: an introduction with applications 1991Messiah: Quantum Mechanics, 1961Dirac: a] Principles of QM, 4th ed., 1958b] Lectures in QM, 1964c] Lectures on Quantum Field Theory, 1966Itzykson and Zuber: Quantum Field Theory, 1980Advanced level.Slater: Quantum theory: Address, essays, lectures.Good follow on to Schiff.note: Schiff, Bjorken and Drell, Fetter and Walecka, and Slater are all volumes in "International Series in pure and Applied Physics" published by McGraw-Hill.Pierre Ramond: Field Theory: A Modern Primer, 2nd edition. Volume 74 in the FiP series.The so-called "revised printing" is a must, as they must've rushed the first printing of the 2nd edition because it's full of inexcusable mistakes.Feynman: The Feynman Lectures, Vol. 3A non-traditional approach. A good place to get an intuitive feel for QM, if one already knows the traditional approach.Heitler & London: Quantum theory of moleculesJ. Bell: Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, 1987An excellent collection of essays on the philosophical aspects of QM.Milonni: The quantum vacuum: an introduction to quantum electrodynamics1994.Holland: The Quantum Theory of MotionA good bet for a strong foundation in QM.John von Neumann: Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, 1955. For the more mathematical side of quantum theory, especially for those who are going to be arguing about measurement theory.Schiff: Quantum Mechanics, 3rd ed., 1968A little old. Not much emphasis on airy-fairy things like many worlds or excessive angst over Heisenberg UP. Straight up QM for people who want to do calculations. Introductory graduate level. Mostly Schrodinger eqn. Spin included, but only in an adjunct to Schrodinger. Not much emphasis on things like Dirac eqn, etc.Eisberg and Resnick: Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles, 2nd ed., 1985. This is a basic intro. to QM, and it is excellent for undergrads. It is not thorough with the mathematics, but fills in a lot of the intuitive stuff that most textbooks do not present.David Saxon: Elementary Quantum MechanicsA decent undergraduate (senior level) text.Bethe and Jackiw: Intermediate Quantum MechanicsP.W.Atkins: Quanta: A Handbook of conceptsShort entries, arranged alphabetically, emphasis on stuff relevant to quantum chemistry. Concentrates on the intuition and not the mathematics.James Peebles: Quantum Mechanics (1993)Intermediate level, based on lectures given by the author at Princeton. Very lucid exposition of the standard material with outstanding selection of mostly original problems at the end of each chapter.Statistical Mechanics and EntropyDavid Chandler: Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics, 1987R. Tolman: Prinicples of Statistical Mechanics. DoverKittel & Kroemer: Statistical ThermodynamicsBest of a bad lot.Reif: Principles of statistical and thermal physics.The big and little Reif statistical mechanics books. Big Reif is much better than Kittel & Kroemer. He uses clear language but avoids the handwaving that thermodynamics often gives rise to. More classical than QM oriented.Felix Bloch: Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics.Radu Balescu: Statistical PhysicsGraduate Level. Good description of non-equilibrium stat. mech. but difficult to read. It is all there, but often you don't realize it until after you have learned it somewhere else. Nice development in early chapters about parallels between classical and quantum statistical mechanics.Abrikosov, Gorkov, and Dyzaloshinski:Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical PhysicsHuw Price: Time's Arrow and Archimedes' PointSemi-popular book on the direction of time by a philosopher. It has been controversial because of its criticism of physicists such as Hawking for their "double standards" in dealing with the old problem on the origin of the arrow of time. It is thought provoking and clearly written.The following 6 books deal with modern topics in (mostly) classical statistical mechanics, namely, the central notions of linear response theory (Forster) and critical phenomena (the rest) at level suitable for beginning graduate students.Thermodynamics, by H. Callen.Statistical Mechanics, by R. K. PathriaHydrodynamic Fluctuations, Broken Symmetry, and Correlation Functions, by D. ForsterIntroduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, by H. E. StanleyModern Theory of Critical Phenomena, by S. K. MaLectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group, by N. GoldenfeldCondensed MatterCharles Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics (ISSP),introductoryAshcroft and Mermin: Solid State Physics,intermediate to advancedCharles Kittel: Quantum Theory of Solids.This is from before the days of his ISSP; it is a more advanced book. At a similar level. . .Solid State Theory, by W. A. Harrison (a great bargain now that it's published by Dover)Theory of Solids, by Ziman.Fundamentals of the Theory of Metals, by AbrikosovHalf of the book is on superconductivity.Many-Particle Physics, G. Mahan.Advanced.Special RelativityTaylor and Wheeler: Spacetime PhysicsStill the best introduction out there.Relativity: Einstein's popular exposition.Wolfgang Rindler: Essential Relativity. Springer 1977With a heavy bias towards astrophysics and therefore on a more moderate level formally. Quite strong on intuition.A.P. French: Special RelativityA thorough introductory text. Good discussion of the twin paradox, pole and the barn etc. Plenty of diagrams illustrating Lorentz-transformed coordinates, giving both an algebraic and geometrical insight to SR. (Seems to be out of print)Abraham Pais: Subtle is the Lord: The Science and Life of Albert EinsteinThe best technical biography of the life and work of Albert Einstein.Special Relativity and its Experimental Foundations Yuan Zhong ZhangSpecial relativity is so well established that its experimental foundation is often ignored. This book fills the gap and will be of relevance to many discussions in sci.physics.relativityParticle PhysicsKerson Huang: Quarks, leptons & gauge fields, World Scientific, 1982.Good on mathematical aspects of gauge theory and topology.L. B. Okun: Leptons and quarks, translated from Russian by V. I. Kisin, North-Holland, 1982.T. D. Lee: Particle physics and introduction to field theory.Itzykson: Particle PhysicsBjorken & Drell: Relativistic Quantum MechanicsOne of the more terse books. The first volume on relativistic quantum mechanics covers the subject in a blinding 300 pages. Very good if youreally want to know the subject.Francis Halzen & Alan D. Martin: Quarks & Leptons,Beginner to intermediate, this is a standard textbook for graduate level courses. Good knowledge of quantum mechanics and special relativity is assumed. A very good introduction to the concepts of particle physics. Good examples, but not a lot of Feynman diagram calculation. For this, see Bjorken & Drell.Donald H. Perkins: Introduction to high energy physicsRegarded by many people in the field as the best introductory text at the undergraduate level. Covers basically everything with almost no mathematics.Close, Marten, and Sutton: The Particle Explosion A popular exposition of the history of particle physics with terrific photography.Christine Sutton: Spaceship NeutrinoA good, historical, largely intuitive introduction to particle physics, seen from the neutrino viewpoint.Mandl, Shaw: Quantum Field TheoryIntroductory textbook, concise and practically orientated. Used at many graduate departments as a textbook for the first course in QFT and a bare minimum for experimentalists in high energy physics. Chapters on Feynman diagrams and cross-section calculations particularly well written and useful.F.Gross: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field TheoryI am familiar with first part only (rel. QM) which I warmly recommend in conjunction with Mandl, since Klein-Gordon and Dirac Equation are explained in greater detail than in Mandl. One of my professors likes a lot the rest of the book too, but I haven't spent much time on it and can't comment. Published in 1993.S. Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol I,II, 1995 It's the usual Weinberg stuff: refreshing, illuminating viewpoints on every page. Perhaps most suitable for graduate students who already know some basics of QFT. Unfortunately, this book does not conform to Bjorken-Drell metric.M.B. Green, J.H. Schwarz, E. Witten:Superstring Theory (2 vols)Although these two volumes do not touch the important new developments in string theories they are still the best texts for the basics. To keep up with this fast developing subject it is necessary to download the papers and reviews as hep-th e-prints.M. Kaku: Strings, Conformal Fields and TopologyJust a little more up-to-date than GSWSuperstrings: A Theory of Everything ed P.C.W. DaviesThrough transcripts of interviews with Schwarz, Witten, Green, Gross, Ellis, Salam, Glashow, Feynman and Weinberg we learn about string theory and how different physicists feel about its prospects as a TOE. This also predates the new developments which revolutionised string theory after 1993.A Pais: Inward Bound This can be regarded as a companion volume to his biography of Einstein (see special relativity section). It covers the history of particle physics through the twentieth century but is best for the earlier half.R.P. Crease, C.C. Mann: The Second Creation 1996Another history of particle physics in the twentieth century. This one is especially good on the development of the standard model.. Full of personal stories taken from numerous interviews, it is difficult to put down.L. Lederman, D. Teresi: The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? 2006This book describes the search for the Higgs Boson at Fermilab. It describes what the Higgs is and gives some background to the subject of particle physics. It also gives an account of some more general physics history.General RelativityMeisner, Thorne and Wheeler:Gravitation W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco 1973Usually referred to as MTW. It has two tracks for different levels. A famous work in the subject whose main strength is probably its various asides, historical and otherwise. While it has much interesting reading, it is not a book to learn relativity from: its approach is all over the place, and it pushes gawdy notation which no one actually uses to do anything useful.Robert M. Wald: Space, Time, and Gravity: the Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes.A good non-technical introduction, with a nice mix of mathematical rigor and comprehensible physics.Schutz: A First Course in General Relativity.A readable and useful book, to a point. The 1988 edition, at least, unfortunately has a tangled approach to its Lambda index notation that is wrong in places. Schutz goes to great lengths to convince the reader of the usefulness of one-forms, but is clearly unaware that everything he does with them can be done in shorter time using vectors alone. Beware the show-stopping typos in the Riemann components for the Schwarzschild metric on page 315. The discussion about Riemann tensor signs on page 171 is also wrong, and will give you wrong results if you apply it. Indeed, that discussion is indicative of a general naïveté in the book's early mathematics as a whole.Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology A good book that takes a somewhat different approach to the subject.Hans Ohanian: Gravitation & Spacetime(recently back in print)For someone who actually wants to learn to work problems, ideal for self-teaching, and math is introduced as needed, rather than in a colossal blast.Robert Wald: General RelativityA more advanced textbook than Wald's earlier book, appropriate for an introductory graduate course in GR. It strikes just the right balance, in my opinion, between mathematical rigor and physical intuition. It has great mathematics appendices for those who care about proving theorems carefully, and a good introduction to the problems behind quantum gravity (although not to their solutions). I think it's MUCH better than either MTW or Weinberg.Clifford Will: Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the TestNon-technical account of the experimental support for GR, including the "classic three tests", but going well beyond them.Kip Thorne: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous LegacyAn award-winning popular account of black holes and related objects with many historical anecdotes from the author's personal experiences. The book is famous for the final sections about time travel through wormholes.Ignore Dirac's small book on lectures in GR, unless you like reading books that have almost no discussion of their mathematical content (and almost no discussion of anything else, either). It's a sure bet that this book was only published because Dirac wrote it.Mathematical MethodsMorse and Feshbach: Methods of Theoretical Physics. This book used to be hard to find, but can now be bought atfeshbachpublishing.com.Mathews and Walker: Mathematical Methods of Physics. An absolute joy for those who love math, and very informative even for those who don't. [This has been severely disputed!--ed]Arfken: Mathematical Methods for Physicists Academic PressGood introduction at graduate level. Not comprehensive in any area, but covers many areas widely. Arfken is to math methods what numerical recipes is to numerical methods — good intro, but not the last word.Zwillinger: Handbook of Differential Equations. Academic PressKind of like CRC tables but for ODEs and PDEs. Good reference book when you've got a differential equation and want to find a solution.Gradshteyn and Ryzhik: Table of Integrals, Series, and Products AcademicTHE book of integrals. Huge, but useful when you need an integral.F.W. Byron and R. Fuller: Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics (2 vols) is a really terrific text for self-study; it is like a baby version of Morse & Feshbach.Nuclear PhysicsPreston and Bhaduri: Structure of the NucleusBlatt and Weisskopf: Theoretical Nuclear PhysicsDeShalit and Feshbach: Theoretical Nuclear PhysicsThis is serious stuff. Also quite expensive even in paper. I think the hard cover is out of print. This is volume I (structure). Volume II (scattering) is also available.Satchler: Direct Nuclear ReactionsWalecka: Theoretical Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (1995)Covers advanced topics in theoretical nuclear physics from a modern perspective and includes results of past 20 years in a field which makes it unique. Not an easy material to read but invaluable for people seeking an updated review of the present status in the field.Krane: Introductory nuclear physicsIntroductory-to-intermediate level textbook in basic nuclear physics for senior undergraduates. Good, clear and relatively comprehensive exposition of "standard" material: nuclear models, alfa, beta, gamma radioactivity, nuclear reactions. . . Last edition issued in 1988.CosmologyJ. V. Narlikar: Introduction to Cosmology.1983 Jones & Bartlett Publ.For people with a solid background in physics and higher math, THE introductory text, IMHO, because it hits the balance between mathematical accuracy (tensor calculus and stuff) and intuitive clarity/geometrical models very well for grad student level. Of course, it has flaws but only noticeable by the Real Experts (TM). . .Hawking: A Brief History of Time The ghost-written book that made Popular Science popular, but an odd mixture of easy physics and very advanced physics.Weinberg: First Three MinutesA very good book. It's pretty old, but most of the information in it is still correct.Timothy Ferris: Coming of Age in the Milky Way and The Whole ShebangMore Popular Science, and very readable.Kolb and Turner: The Early Universe.At a more advanced level, a standard reference. As the title implies, K&T cover mostly the strange physics of very early times: it's heavy on the particle physics, and skimps on the astrophysics. There's a primer on large-scale structure, which is the most active area of cosmological research, but it's really not all that good.Peebles: Principles of Physical Cosmology.Comprehensive, and on the whole it's quite a good book, but it's rather poorly organized. I find myself jumping back and forth through the book whenever I want to find anything.Black Holes and Warped Spacetime, by William J. Kaufmann III.This is a great, fairly thorough, though non-mathematical description of black holes and spacetime as it relates to cosmology. I was impressed by how few mistakes Kaufmann makes in simplifying, while most such books tend to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity.M.V. Berry: Principles of Cosmology and GravitationThis is very well written, and useful as an undergrad text.Dennis Overbye: Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos The unfinished history of converge on Hubble's constant is presented, from the perspective of competing astrophysics rival teams and institute, along with a lot of background on cosmology (a lot on inflation, for instance). A good insight into the scientific process.Joseph Silk: The Big BangI consider Silk's book an absolute must for those who want a quick run at the current state of big bang cosmology and some of the recent (1988) issues which have given so many of us lots of problems to solve. [of course that's eons out of date now--ed.]Bubbles, voids, and bumps in time: the new cosmology edited by James Cornell.This is quite a nice and relatively short read for some of the pressing issues (as of 1987-88) in astrophysical cosmology.T. Padmanabhan: Structure formation in the universeA no-nonsense book for those who want to calculate some problems strictly related to the formation of structure in the universe. The book even comes complete with problems at the end of each chapter. A bad thing about this book is that there isn't any coverage on clusters of galaxies and the one really big thing that annoys the hell outta me is that the bibliography for each chapter is all combined in one big bibliography towards the end of the book which makes for lots of page flipping.P.J.E. Peebles: The large-scale structure of the universeThis is a definitive book for anyone who desires an understanding of the mathematics required to develop the theory for models of large scale structure. The essential techniques in the description of how mass is able to cluster under gravity from a smooth early universe are discussed. While I find it dry in some places, there are noteworthy sections (e.g. statistical tests, n-point correlation functions, etc.).Andrzej Krasinski: Inhomogeneous Cosmological ModelsIf you are blinded by the dogma of the cosmological principle, this book is a real eye opener. A technical, historical and bibliographical survey of possible inhomogeous universes from solutions of general relativity.Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer:Origins: The lives and worlds of modern cosmologists, 1990Transcripts of interview with 27 of the most influential cosmologists from the past few decades. This book provides a unique record of how their cosmological theories have been formed.AstronomyHannu Karttunen et al. (eds.):Fundamental Astronomy.The very good book covering all of astronomy (also for absolute beginners) AND still going into a lot of detail for special work for people more involved AND presenting excellent graphics and pictures.Pasachoff: Contemporary AstronomyGood introductory textbook for the nontechnical reader. It gives a pretty good overview of the important topics, and it has good pictures.Frank Shu: The physical universe: an introduction to astronomyThis is a really grand book, which covers a huge sweep of physics in its 600-odd pages. Not only does it describe the field of astronomy in great detail, but it also covers in detail the laws of classical and quantum mechanics, atrophysics and stellar evolution, cosmology, special and general relativity; and last but not least, the biochemical basis of life. In fact the last few chapters would make a great addition to a biochemist's library!Kenneth R. Lang: Astrophysical formulae: a compendium for the physicist and astrophysicistHere is everything you wanted to know (and more!) about astrophysical formulae on a one-line/one-paragraph/one-shot deal. Of course, the formulae come complete with references (a tad old, mind you) but it's a must for everyone who's working in astronomy and astrophysics. You learn something new every time you flip through the pages!Plasma Physics(See Robert Heeter's sci.physics.fusion FAQ for details)Numerical Methods/SimulationsJohnson and Rees: Numerical AnalysisAddison WesleyUndergraduate level broad intro.Numerical Recipes in X (X = C, Fortran, Pascal, etc.) Tueklosky and PressYoung and Gregory: A survey of Numerical Mathematics Dover 2 volumes.Excellent overview at grad. level. Emphasis toward solution of elliptic PDEs, but good description of methods to get there including linear algebra, matrix techniques, ODE-solving methods, and interpolation theory. Biggest strength is it provides a coherent framework and structure to attach most commonly used numerical methods. This helps understanding about why to use one method or another. 2 volumes.Hockney and Eastwood: Computer Simulation Using Particles Adam HilgerGood exposition of particle-in-cell (PIC) method and extensions. Applications to plasmas, astronomy, and solid state are discussed. Emphasis is on description of algorithms. Some results shown.Birdsall and Langdon: Plasma Physics via Computer SimulationsPIC simulation applied to plasmas. Source codes shown. First part is almost a tutorial on how to do PIC. Second part is like a series of review articles on different PIC methods.Tajima: Computational Plasma Physics: With Applications to Fusion and Astrophysics Addison Wesley Frontiers in physics Series.Algorithms described. Emphasis on physics that can be simulated. Applications limited to plasmas, but subject areas very broad, fusion, cosmology, solar astrophysics, magnetospheric physics, plasma turbulence, general astrophysics.Fluid DynamicsD.J. Tritton: Physical Fluid DynamicsG.K. Batchelor: Introduction to Fluid DynamicsS. Chandrasekhar: Hydrodynamics and Hydromagnetic StabilitySegel: Mathematics Applied to Continuum Mechanics Dover.Nonlinear Dynamics, Complexity, and ChaosPrigogine: Exploring ComplexityOr any other Prigogine book. If you've read one, you read most of of them (A Poincaré recurrence maybe?).Guckenheimer and Holmes: Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields SpringerBorderline phys./math. Advanced level. A nuts-and-bolts "how to" textbook. They let the topic provide all the razzmatazz, which is plenty if you pay attention and remember the physics that it applies to.Lichtenberg, A. J. and M. A. Lieberman (1982): Regular and Stochastic Motion. New York, Springer-Verlag.Ioos and Joseph: Elementary Stability and Bifurcation Theory. New York, Springer.Heinz Pagels: The Dreams Of ReasonHe is a very clear and interesting, captivating writer, and presents the concepts in a very intuitive way. The level is popular science, but it is still useful for physicists who know little of complexity.M. Mitchell Waldrop: ComplexityA popular intro to the subject of spontaneous orders, complexity and so on. Covers implications for economics, biology etc and not just physics.Optics (Classical and Quantum), LasersMax Born and Emil Wolf: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of PropagationStandard reference.Sommerfeld: For the more classically minded.Allen and Eberly: Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms.For quantum optics, the most readable but most limited.Goodman: Introduction to Fourier Optics.If it isn't in this book, it isn't Fourier optics.Quantum Optics and Electronics (Les Houches Summer School 1963 or 1964, but someone has claimed that Gordon and BsignNow, NY, are going to republish it in 1995), edited by DeWitt, Blandin, and Cohen- Tannoudji, is noteworthy primarily for Glauber's lectures, that form the basis of quantum optics as it is known today.Sargent, Scully, & Lamb: Laser PhysicsYariv: Quantum ElectronicsSiegman: LasersShen: The Principles of Nonlinear OpticsMeystre & Sargent: Elements of Quantum OpticsCohen-Tannoudji, Dupont-Roc, & Grynberg: Photons, Atoms and Atom-Photon Interactions.Hecht: Optics A very good introductory optics book.Practical Holography by Graham Saxby, Prentice Hall: New York; 1988.This is a very clear and detailed book that is an excellent introduction to holography for interested undergraduate physics people, as well as advanced readers, especially those who are interested in the practical details of making holograms and the theory behind them.Mathematical PhysicsLie Algebra, Topology, Knot Theory, Tensors, etc.These are books that are sort of talky and fun to read (but still substantial--some harder than others). These include things mathematicians can read about physics as well as vice versa. These books are different than the "bibles" one must have on hand at all times to do mathematical physics.Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Cecile DeWitt-Morette, and Margaret Dillard-Bleick:Analysis, manifolds, and physics (2 volumes)Something every mathematical physicist should have at his bedside until he knows it inside and out--but some people say it's not especially easy to read.Jean Dieudonne: A panorama of pure mathematics, as seen by N. Bourbaki, translated by I.G. Macdonald.Gives the big picture in mathematics.Robert Hermann: Lie groups for physicists, Benjamin-Cummings, 1966.George Mackey: Quantum mechanics from the point of view of the theory of group representations, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1984.George Mackey: Unitary group representations in physics, probability, and number theory.Charles Nash and S. Sen: Topology and geometry for physicists.B. Booss and D.D. Bleecker: Topology and analysis: the Atiyah-Singer index formula and gauge-theoretic physics.Bamberg and S. Sternberg: A Course of Mathematics for Students of PhysicsBishop & Goldberg: Tensor Analysis on Manifolds.Dodson & Poston: Tensor Geometry.Abraham, Marsden & Ratiu: Manifolds, Tensor Analysis and Applications.M. Nakahara: Topology, Geometry and Physics.Morandi: The Role of Topology in Classical and Quantum PhysicsSinger, Thorpe: Lecture Notes on Elementary Topology and GeometryL. Kauffman: Knots and Physics, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.C. Yang and M. Ge: Braid group, Knot Theory & Statistical Mechanics.D. Kastler: C-algebras and their applications to Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory.Courant and Hilbert: Methods of Mathematical Physics WileyReally a mathematics book in disguise. Emphasis on ODEs and PDEs. Proves existence, etc. Very comprehensive. 2 volumes.Cecille Dewitt is publishing a book on manifolds that should be out soon (maybe already is). Very high level, but supposedly of great importance for anyone needing to set the Feynman path integral in a firm foundation.Howard Georgi: Lie Groups for Particle Phyiscs Addison Wesley Frontiers in Physics Series.Synge and Schild.Atomic PhysicsMax Born: Atomic PhysicsA classic, though a little old.Gerhard Herzberg: Atomic spectra and atomic structure, Translated with the co-operation of the author by J. W. T.Spinks. — New York, Dover publications, 1944Old but good.E. U. Condon and G. H. Shortley: The theory of atomic spectra, CUP 1951G. K. Woodgate: Elementary atomic structure, 2d ed. Oxford: New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1983, c 1980Introductory level.Alan Corney: Atomic and laser spectroscopy, Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press, 1977Excellent,fairly advanced, large experimental bent, but good development of background. Good stuff on lasers (gas, dye)Low Temperature Physics, SuperconductivityThe Theory of Quantum Liquids, by D. Pines and P. NozieresSuperconductivity of Metals and Alloys, P. G. DeGennes A classic introduction.Theory of Superconductivity, J. R. SchriefferSuperconductivity, M. TinkhamExperimental techniques in low-temperature physics, by Guy K. White.This is considered by many as a "bible" for those working in experimental leterature.I hope this answers your question

M.S. Longair: Theoretical concepts in physics, 1986.An alternative view of theoretical reasoning in physics for final year undergrads.Arnold Sommerfeld: Lectures on Theoretical PhysicsSommerfeld is God for mathematical physics.Richard Feynman: The Feynman lectures on Physics (3 vols)Highly recommended texts compiled from the undergraduate lecture course given by Feynman.Jearle Walker: The Flying Circus of PhysicsThere is the entire Landau and Lifshitz series. They have volumes on classical mechanics, classical field theory, E&M, QM, QFT, statistical physics, and more. Very good series that spans the entire graduate level curriculum.The New Physics edited by Paul Davies.This is one big book and it takes time to look through topics as diverse as general relativity, astrophysics, particle theory, quantum mechanics, chaos and nonlinearity, low-temperature physics and phase transitions. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book of recent (1989) physics articles, written by several physicists/astrophysicists.Richard Feynman: The Character of Physical LawIn his unique no-nonsense style, Feynman lectures about what physics is all about. Down-to-earth examples keep him from straying into the kind of metaphysics of which he is often critical.David Mermin: Boojums all the way through: Communicating science in prosaic languageFrank Wilczek and Betsy Devine: Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and variations from modern physicsGreg Egan: Permutation CityThis is a science fiction novel which has more to say about the philosophy of physics than do most philosophers and physicists.Don't read: The Physicist's World, by Thomas Grissom. We include this book as an example of a book that contains mostly incorrect physics. Grissom is a philosopher who has managed to publish a book about physics without knowing much physics, and it's a shame that he has taught the content of this book for some (many?) years to philosophy students, who must've gone out into the big world thinking that physicists must be incredibly dumb if they really believe the naïve concepts that Grissom thinks physics is all about. This book gets all the big tenets of the subject wrong: Grissom thinks that special relativity is all about what is seen with the eye, a mistake that only first-year students are expected to make; he thinks that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle concerns the limits of measurement of quantities that are otherwise perfectly well defined; he thinks that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is an actual law thatmust be obeyed. And apparently he thinks that physicists spend a great deal of their time pondering the philosophy of the Ancient Greeks. All completely wrong.Classical MechanicsHerbert Goldstein: Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed, 1980.Intermediate to advanced; excellent bibliography.Introductory: The Feynman Lectures, vol 1.Keith Symon: Mechanics, 3rd ed., 1971 undergrad. levelH. Corbin and P. Stehle: Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed., 1960V.I. Arnold: Mathematical methods of classical mechanics, translated by K. Vogtmann and A. Weinstein, 2nd ed., 1989. The appendices are somewhat more advanced and cover all sorts of nifty topics. Deals with geometrical aspects of classical mechanicsR. Resnick and D. Halliday: Physics, vol 1, 4th Ed., 1993Excellent introduction without much calculus. Lots of problems and review questions.Marion & Thornton: Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, 2nd ed., 1970.Undergrad level. A useful intro to classical dynamics. Not as advanced as Goldstein, but with real worked-out examples.A. Fetter and J. Walecka: Theoretical mechanics of particles and continuagraduate level text, a little less impressive than Goldstein (and sometimes a little less obtuse)Kiran Gupta: Classical Mechanics of Particles and Rigid Bodies (1988)At the level of Goldstein but has many more worked-out problems at the end of each chapter as a good illustration of the material. Very useful for preparations for the PhD Qualifying Examination (I presume this is America only — ed.).Classical ElectromagnetismJackson: Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd ed., 1975Intermediate to advanced, the definitive graduate(US)/undergraduate(UK) text.Purcell: Berkeley Physics Series Vol 2.You can't beat this for the intelligent, reasonably sophisticated beginning physics student. He tells you on the very first page about the experimental proof of how charge does not vary with speed.plus... Chen, Min, Berkeley Physics problems with solutions.Reitz, Milford and Christy: Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory 4th ed., 1992Undergraduate level. Pretty difficult to learn from at first, but good reference, for some calculations involving stacks of thin films and their reflectance and transmission properties, for e.g. It's a good, rigorous text as far as it goes, which is pretty far, but not all the way. For example, they have a great section on optical properties of a single thin film between two dielectric semi-infinite media, but no generalization to stacks of films.Feynman: The Feynman Lectures, Vol. 2Lorrain & Corson: Electromagnetism, Principles and Applications, 1979Resnick and Halliday: Physics, vol 2, 4th ed., 1993Igor Irodov: Problems in Physics Excellent and extensive collection of EM problems for undergrads.William Smythe: Static and Dynamic Electricity, 3rd ed., 1968For the extreme masochists. Some of the most hair-raising EM problems you'll ever see. Definitely not for the weak-of-heart.Landau, Lifshitz, and Pitaevskii:Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, 2nd ed., 1984Same level as Jackson and with lots of material not in Jackson.Marion and Heald: Classical Electromagnetic Radiation, 2nd ed., 1980. Undergraduate or low-level graduate.Quantum MechanicsQED: The strange theory of light and matter Richard Feynman.One need no longer be confused by this beautiful theory. Richard Feynman gives an exposition that is once again and by itself a beautiful explanation of the theory of photon-matter interactions. Taken from a popular, non-technical lecture.Cohen-Tannoudji: Quantum Mechanics I & II&, 1977.Introductory to intermediate.Liboff: Introductory Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed., 1992Elementary level. Makes a few mistakes.Sakurai: Modern Quantum Mechanics, 1985Sakurai: Advanced Quantum Mechanics1967Good as an introduction to the very basic beginnings of quantum field theory, except that it has the unfortunate feature of using "imaginary time" to make Minkowski space look Euclidean.J. Wheeler and W. Zurek (eds.): Quantum Theory and Measurement, 1983On the philosophical end. People who want to know about interpretations of quantum mechanics should definitely look at this collection of relevant articles.C. DeWitt and N. Graham: The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsPhilosophical. Collection of articles.H. Everett: Theory of the Universal WavefunctionAn exposition which has some gems on thermodynamics and probability. Worth reading for this alone.Bjorken and Drell: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics/ Relativistic Quantum Fields(for comments, see under Particle Physics)Ryder: Quantum Field Theory, 1984Guidry: Gauge Field Theories: an introduction with applications 1991Messiah: Quantum Mechanics, 1961Dirac: a] Principles of QM, 4th ed., 1958b] Lectures in QM, 1964c] Lectures on Quantum Field Theory, 1966Itzykson and Zuber: Quantum Field Theory, 1980Advanced level.Slater: Quantum theory: Address, essays, lectures.Good follow on to Schiff.note: Schiff, Bjorken and Drell, Fetter and Walecka, and Slater are all volumes in "International Series in pure and Applied Physics" published by McGraw-Hill.Pierre Ramond: Field Theory: A Modern Primer, 2nd edition. Volume 74 in the FiP series.The so-called "revised printing" is a must, as they must've rushed the first printing of the 2nd edition because it's full of inexcusable mistakes.Feynman: The Feynman Lectures, Vol. 3A non-traditional approach. A good place to get an intuitive feel for QM, if one already knows the traditional approach.Heitler & London: Quantum theory of moleculesJ. Bell: Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, 1987An excellent collection of essays on the philosophical aspects of QM.Milonni: The quantum vacuum: an introduction to quantum electrodynamics1994.Holland: The Quantum Theory of MotionA good bet for a strong foundation in QM.John von Neumann: Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, 1955. For the more mathematical side of quantum theory, especially for those who are going to be arguing about measurement theory.Schiff: Quantum Mechanics, 3rd ed., 1968A little old. Not much emphasis on airy-fairy things like many worlds or excessive angst over Heisenberg UP. Straight up QM for people who want to do calculations. Introductory graduate level. Mostly Schrodinger eqn. Spin included, but only in an adjunct to Schrodinger. Not much emphasis on things like Dirac eqn, etc.Eisberg and Resnick: Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles, 2nd ed., 1985. This is a basic intro. to QM, and it is excellent for undergrads. It is not thorough with the mathematics, but fills in a lot of the intuitive stuff that most textbooks do not present.David Saxon: Elementary Quantum MechanicsA decent undergraduate (senior level) text.Bethe and Jackiw: Intermediate Quantum MechanicsP.W.Atkins: Quanta: A Handbook of conceptsShort entries, arranged alphabetically, emphasis on stuff relevant to quantum chemistry. Concentrates on the intuition and not the mathematics.James Peebles: Quantum Mechanics (1993)Intermediate level, based on lectures given by the author at Princeton. Very lucid exposition of the standard material with outstanding selection of mostly original problems at the end of each chapter.Statistical Mechanics and EntropyDavid Chandler: Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics, 1987R. Tolman: Prinicples of Statistical Mechanics. DoverKittel & Kroemer: Statistical ThermodynamicsBest of a bad lot.Reif: Principles of statistical and thermal physics.The big and little Reif statistical mechanics books. Big Reif is much better than Kittel & Kroemer. He uses clear language but avoids the handwaving that thermodynamics often gives rise to. More classical than QM oriented.Felix Bloch: Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics.Radu Balescu: Statistical PhysicsGraduate Level. Good description of non-equilibrium stat. mech. but difficult to read. It is all there, but often you don't realize it until after you have learned it somewhere else. Nice development in early chapters about parallels between classical and quantum statistical mechanics.Abrikosov, Gorkov, and Dyzaloshinski:Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical PhysicsHuw Price: Time's Arrow and Archimedes' PointSemi-popular book on the direction of time by a philosopher. It has been controversial because of its criticism of physicists such as Hawking for their "double standards" in dealing with the old problem on the origin of the arrow of time. It is thought provoking and clearly written.The following 6 books deal with modern topics in (mostly) classical statistical mechanics, namely, the central notions of linear response theory (Forster) and critical phenomena (the rest) at level suitable for beginning graduate students.Thermodynamics, by H. Callen.Statistical Mechanics, by R. K. PathriaHydrodynamic Fluctuations, Broken Symmetry, and Correlation Functions, by D. ForsterIntroduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, by H. E. StanleyModern Theory of Critical Phenomena, by S. K. MaLectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group, by N. GoldenfeldCondensed MatterCharles Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics (ISSP),introductoryAshcroft and Mermin: Solid State Physics,intermediate to advancedCharles Kittel: Quantum Theory of Solids.This is from before the days of his ISSP; it is a more advanced book. At a similar level. . .Solid State Theory, by W. A. Harrison (a great bargain now that it's published by Dover)Theory of Solids, by Ziman.Fundamentals of the Theory of Metals, by AbrikosovHalf of the book is on superconductivity.Many-Particle Physics, G. Mahan.Advanced.Special RelativityTaylor and Wheeler: Spacetime PhysicsStill the best introduction out there.Relativity: Einstein's popular exposition.Wolfgang Rindler: Essential Relativity. Springer 1977With a heavy bias towards astrophysics and therefore on a more moderate level formally. Quite strong on intuition.A.P. French: Special RelativityA thorough introductory text. Good discussion of the twin paradox, pole and the barn etc. Plenty of diagrams illustrating Lorentz-transformed coordinates, giving both an algebraic and geometrical insight to SR. (Seems to be out of print)Abraham Pais: Subtle is the Lord: The Science and Life of Albert EinsteinThe best technical biography of the life and work of Albert Einstein.Special Relativity and its Experimental Foundations Yuan Zhong ZhangSpecial relativity is so well established that its experimental foundation is often ignored. This book fills the gap and will be of relevance to many discussions in sci.physics.relativityParticle PhysicsKerson Huang: Quarks, leptons & gauge fields, World Scientific, 1982.Good on mathematical aspects of gauge theory and topology.L. B. Okun: Leptons and quarks, translated from Russian by V. I. Kisin, North-Holland, 1982.T. D. Lee: Particle physics and introduction to field theory.Itzykson: Particle PhysicsBjorken & Drell: Relativistic Quantum MechanicsOne of the more terse books. The first volume on relativistic quantum mechanics covers the subject in a blinding 300 pages. Very good if youreally want to know the subject.Francis Halzen & Alan D. Martin: Quarks & Leptons,Beginner to intermediate, this is a standard textbook for graduate level courses. Good knowledge of quantum mechanics and special relativity is assumed. A very good introduction to the concepts of particle physics. Good examples, but not a lot of Feynman diagram calculation. For this, see Bjorken & Drell.Donald H. Perkins: Introduction to high energy physicsRegarded by many people in the field as the best introductory text at the undergraduate level. Covers basically everything with almost no mathematics.Close, Marten, and Sutton: The Particle Explosion A popular exposition of the history of particle physics with terrific photography.Christine Sutton: Spaceship NeutrinoA good, historical, largely intuitive introduction to particle physics, seen from the neutrino viewpoint.Mandl, Shaw: Quantum Field TheoryIntroductory textbook, concise and practically orientated. Used at many graduate departments as a textbook for the first course in QFT and a bare minimum for experimentalists in high energy physics. Chapters on Feynman diagrams and cross-section calculations particularly well written and useful.F.Gross: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field TheoryI am familiar with first part only (rel. QM) which I warmly recommend in conjunction with Mandl, since Klein-Gordon and Dirac Equation are explained in greater detail than in Mandl. One of my professors likes a lot the rest of the book too, but I haven't spent much time on it and can't comment. Published in 1993.S. Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol I,II, 1995 It's the usual Weinberg stuff: refreshing, illuminating viewpoints on every page. Perhaps most suitable for graduate students who already know some basics of QFT. Unfortunately, this book does not conform to Bjorken-Drell metric.M.B. Green, J.H. Schwarz, E. Witten:Superstring Theory (2 vols)Although these two volumes do not touch the important new developments in string theories they are still the best texts for the basics. To keep up with this fast developing subject it is necessary to download the papers and reviews as hep-th e-prints.M. Kaku: Strings, Conformal Fields and TopologyJust a little more up-to-date than GSWSuperstrings: A Theory of Everything ed P.C.W. DaviesThrough transcripts of interviews with Schwarz, Witten, Green, Gross, Ellis, Salam, Glashow, Feynman and Weinberg we learn about string theory and how different physicists feel about its prospects as a TOE. This also predates the new developments which revolutionised string theory after 1993.A Pais: Inward Bound This can be regarded as a companion volume to his biography of Einstein (see special relativity section). It covers the history of particle physics through the twentieth century but is best for the earlier half.R.P. Crease, C.C. Mann: The Second Creation 1996Another history of particle physics in the twentieth century. This one is especially good on the development of the standard model.. Full of personal stories taken from numerous interviews, it is difficult to put down.L. Lederman, D. Teresi: The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? 2006This book describes the search for the Higgs Boson at Fermilab. It describes what the Higgs is and gives some background to the subject of particle physics. It also gives an account of some more general physics history.General RelativityMeisner, Thorne and Wheeler:Gravitation W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco 1973Usually referred to as MTW. It has two tracks for different levels. A famous work in the subject whose main strength is probably its various asides, historical and otherwise. While it has much interesting reading, it is not a book to learn relativity from: its approach is all over the place, and it pushes gawdy notation which no one actually uses to do anything useful.Robert M. Wald: Space, Time, and Gravity: the Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes.A good non-technical introduction, with a nice mix of mathematical rigor and comprehensible physics.Schutz: A First Course in General Relativity.A readable and useful book, to a point. The 1988 edition, at least, unfortunately has a tangled approach to its Lambda index notation that is wrong in places. Schutz goes to great lengths to convince the reader of the usefulness of one-forms, but is clearly unaware that everything he does with them can be done in shorter time using vectors alone. Beware the show-stopping typos in the Riemann components for the Schwarzschild metric on page 315. The discussion about Riemann tensor signs on page 171 is also wrong, and will give you wrong results if you apply it. Indeed, that discussion is indicative of a general naïveté in the book's early mathematics as a whole.Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology A good book that takes a somewhat different approach to the subject.Hans Ohanian: Gravitation & Spacetime(recently back in print)For someone who actually wants to learn to work problems, ideal for self-teaching, and math is introduced as needed, rather than in a colossal blast.Robert Wald: General RelativityA more advanced textbook than Wald's earlier book, appropriate for an introductory graduate course in GR. It strikes just the right balance, in my opinion, between mathematical rigor and physical intuition. It has great mathematics appendices for those who care about proving theorems carefully, and a good introduction to the problems behind quantum gravity (although not to their solutions). I think it's MUCH better than either MTW or Weinberg.Clifford Will: Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the TestNon-technical account of the experimental support for GR, including the "classic three tests", but going well beyond them.Kip Thorne: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous LegacyAn award-winning popular account of black holes and related objects with many historical anecdotes from the author's personal experiences. The book is famous for the final sections about time travel through wormholes.Ignore Dirac's small book on lectures in GR, unless you like reading books that have almost no discussion of their mathematical content (and almost no discussion of anything else, either). It's a sure bet that this book was only published because Dirac wrote it.Mathematical MethodsMorse and Feshbach: Methods of Theoretical Physics. This book used to be hard to find, but can now be bought atfeshbachpublishing.com.Mathews and Walker: Mathematical Methods of Physics. An absolute joy for those who love math, and very informative even for those who don't. [This has been severely disputed!--ed]Arfken: Mathematical Methods for Physicists Academic PressGood introduction at graduate level. Not comprehensive in any area, but covers many areas widely. Arfken is to math methods what numerical recipes is to numerical methods — good intro, but not the last word.Zwillinger: Handbook of Differential Equations. Academic PressKind of like CRC tables but for ODEs and PDEs. Good reference book when you've got a differential equation and want to find a solution.Gradshteyn and Ryzhik: Table of Integrals, Series, and Products AcademicTHE book of integrals. Huge, but useful when you need an integral.F.W. Byron and R. Fuller: Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics (2 vols) is a really terrific text for self-study; it is like a baby version of Morse & Feshbach.Nuclear PhysicsPreston and Bhaduri: Structure of the NucleusBlatt and Weisskopf: Theoretical Nuclear PhysicsDeShalit and Feshbach: Theoretical Nuclear PhysicsThis is serious stuff. Also quite expensive even in paper. I think the hard cover is out of print. This is volume I (structure). Volume II (scattering) is also available.Satchler: Direct Nuclear ReactionsWalecka: Theoretical Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (1995)Covers advanced topics in theoretical nuclear physics from a modern perspective and includes results of past 20 years in a field which makes it unique. Not an easy material to read but invaluable for people seeking an updated review of the present status in the field.Krane: Introductory nuclear physicsIntroductory-to-intermediate level textbook in basic nuclear physics for senior undergraduates. Good, clear and relatively comprehensive exposition of "standard" material: nuclear models, alfa, beta, gamma radioactivity, nuclear reactions. . . Last edition issued in 1988.CosmologyJ. V. Narlikar: Introduction to Cosmology.1983 Jones & Bartlett Publ.For people with a solid background in physics and higher math, THE introductory text, IMHO, because it hits the balance between mathematical accuracy (tensor calculus and stuff) and intuitive clarity/geometrical models very well for grad student level. Of course, it has flaws but only noticeable by the Real Experts (TM). . .Hawking: A Brief History of Time The ghost-written book that made Popular Science popular, but an odd mixture of easy physics and very advanced physics.Weinberg: First Three MinutesA very good book. It's pretty old, but most of the information in it is still correct.Timothy Ferris: Coming of Age in the Milky Way and The Whole ShebangMore Popular Science, and very readable.Kolb and Turner: The Early Universe.At a more advanced level, a standard reference. As the title implies, K&T cover mostly the strange physics of very early times: it's heavy on the particle physics, and skimps on the astrophysics. There's a primer on large-scale structure, which is the most active area of cosmological research, but it's really not all that good.Peebles: Principles of Physical Cosmology.Comprehensive, and on the whole it's quite a good book, but it's rather poorly organized. I find myself jumping back and forth through the book whenever I want to find anything.Black Holes and Warped Spacetime, by William J. Kaufmann III.This is a great, fairly thorough, though non-mathematical description of black holes and spacetime as it relates to cosmology. I was impressed by how few mistakes Kaufmann makes in simplifying, while most such books tend to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity.M.V. Berry: Principles of Cosmology and GravitationThis is very well written, and useful as an undergrad text.Dennis Overbye: Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos The unfinished history of converge on Hubble's constant is presented, from the perspective of competing astrophysics rival teams and institute, along with a lot of background on cosmology (a lot on inflation, for instance). A good insight into the scientific process.Joseph Silk: The Big BangI consider Silk's book an absolute must for those who want a quick run at the current state of big bang cosmology and some of the recent (1988) issues which have given so many of us lots of problems to solve. [of course that's eons out of date now--ed.]Bubbles, voids, and bumps in time: the new cosmology edited by James Cornell.This is quite a nice and relatively short read for some of the pressing issues (as of 1987-88) in astrophysical cosmology.T. Padmanabhan: Structure formation in the universeA no-nonsense book for those who want to calculate some problems strictly related to the formation of structure in the universe. The book even comes complete with problems at the end of each chapter. A bad thing about this book is that there isn't any coverage on clusters of galaxies and the one really big thing that annoys the hell outta me is that the bibliography for each chapter is all combined in one big bibliography towards the end of the book which makes for lots of page flipping.P.J.E. Peebles: The large-scale structure of the universeThis is a definitive book for anyone who desires an understanding of the mathematics required to develop the theory for models of large scale structure. The essential techniques in the description of how mass is able to cluster under gravity from a smooth early universe are discussed. While I find it dry in some places, there are noteworthy sections (e.g. statistical tests, n-point correlation functions, etc.).Andrzej Krasinski: Inhomogeneous Cosmological ModelsIf you are blinded by the dogma of the cosmological principle, this book is a real eye opener. A technical, historical and bibliographical survey of possible inhomogeous universes from solutions of general relativity.Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer:Origins: The lives and worlds of modern cosmologists, 1990Transcripts of interview with 27 of the most influential cosmologists from the past few decades. This book provides a unique record of how their cosmological theories have been formed.AstronomyHannu Karttunen et al. (eds.):Fundamental Astronomy.The very good book covering all of astronomy (also for absolute beginners) AND still going into a lot of detail for special work for people more involved AND presenting excellent graphics and pictures.Pasachoff: Contemporary AstronomyGood introductory textbook for the nontechnical reader. It gives a pretty good overview of the important topics, and it has good pictures.Frank Shu: The physical universe: an introduction to astronomyThis is a really grand book, which covers a huge sweep of physics in its 600-odd pages. Not only does it describe the field of astronomy in great detail, but it also covers in detail the laws of classical and quantum mechanics, atrophysics and stellar evolution, cosmology, special and general relativity; and last but not least, the biochemical basis of life. In fact the last few chapters would make a great addition to a biochemist's library!Kenneth R. Lang: Astrophysical formulae: a compendium for the physicist and astrophysicistHere is everything you wanted to know (and more!) about astrophysical formulae on a one-line/one-paragraph/one-shot deal. Of course, the formulae come complete with references (a tad old, mind you) but it's a must for everyone who's working in astronomy and astrophysics. You learn something new every time you flip through the pages!Plasma Physics(See Robert Heeter's sci.physics.fusion FAQ for details)Numerical Methods/SimulationsJohnson and Rees: Numerical AnalysisAddison WesleyUndergraduate level broad intro.Numerical Recipes in X (X = C, Fortran, Pascal, etc.) Tueklosky and PressYoung and Gregory: A survey of Numerical Mathematics Dover 2 volumes.Excellent overview at grad. level. Emphasis toward solution of elliptic PDEs, but good description of methods to get there including linear algebra, matrix techniques, ODE-solving methods, and interpolation theory. Biggest strength is it provides a coherent framework and structure to attach most commonly used numerical methods. This helps understanding about why to use one method or another. 2 volumes.Hockney and Eastwood: Computer Simulation Using Particles Adam HilgerGood exposition of particle-in-cell (PIC) method and extensions. Applications to plasmas, astronomy, and solid state are discussed. Emphasis is on description of algorithms. Some results shown.Birdsall and Langdon: Plasma Physics via Computer SimulationsPIC simulation applied to plasmas. Source codes shown. First part is almost a tutorial on how to do PIC. Second part is like a series of review articles on different PIC methods.Tajima: Computational Plasma Physics: With Applications to Fusion and Astrophysics Addison Wesley Frontiers in physics Series.Algorithms described. Emphasis on physics that can be simulated. Applications limited to plasmas, but subject areas very broad, fusion, cosmology, solar astrophysics, magnetospheric physics, plasma turbulence, general astrophysics.Fluid DynamicsD.J. Tritton: Physical Fluid DynamicsG.K. Batchelor: Introduction to Fluid DynamicsS. Chandrasekhar: Hydrodynamics and Hydromagnetic StabilitySegel: Mathematics Applied to Continuum Mechanics Dover.Nonlinear Dynamics, Complexity, and ChaosPrigogine: Exploring ComplexityOr any other Prigogine book. If you've read one, you read most of of them (A Poincaré recurrence maybe?).Guckenheimer and Holmes: Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields SpringerBorderline phys./math. Advanced level. A nuts-and-bolts "how to" textbook. They let the topic provide all the razzmatazz, which is plenty if you pay attention and remember the physics that it applies to.Lichtenberg, A. J. and M. A. Lieberman (1982): Regular and Stochastic Motion. New York, Springer-Verlag.Ioos and Joseph: Elementary Stability and Bifurcation Theory. New York, Springer.Heinz Pagels: The Dreams Of ReasonHe is a very clear and interesting, captivating writer, and presents the concepts in a very intuitive way. The level is popular science, but it is still useful for physicists who know little of complexity.M. Mitchell Waldrop: ComplexityA popular intro to the subject of spontaneous orders, complexity and so on. Covers implications for economics, biology etc and not just physics.Optics (Classical and Quantum), LasersMax Born and Emil Wolf: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of PropagationStandard reference.Sommerfeld: For the more classically minded.Allen and Eberly: Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms.For quantum optics, the most readable but most limited.Goodman: Introduction to Fourier Optics.If it isn't in this book, it isn't Fourier optics.Quantum Optics and Electronics (Les Houches Summer School 1963 or 1964, but someone has claimed that Gordon and BsignNow, NY, are going to republish it in 1995), edited by DeWitt, Blandin, and Cohen- Tannoudji, is noteworthy primarily for Glauber's lectures, that form the basis of quantum optics as it is known today.Sargent, Scully, & Lamb: Laser PhysicsYariv: Quantum ElectronicsSiegman: LasersShen: The Principles of Nonlinear OpticsMeystre & Sargent: Elements of Quantum OpticsCohen-Tannoudji, Dupont-Roc, & Grynberg: Photons, Atoms and Atom-Photon Interactions.Hecht: Optics A very good introductory optics book.Practical Holography by Graham Saxby, Prentice Hall: New York; 1988.This is a very clear and detailed book that is an excellent introduction to holography for interested undergraduate physics people, as well as advanced readers, especially those who are interested in the practical details of making holograms and the theory behind them.Mathematical PhysicsLie Algebra, Topology, Knot Theory, Tensors, etc.These are books that are sort of talky and fun to read (but still substantial--some harder than others). These include things mathematicians can read about physics as well as vice versa. These books are different than the "bibles" one must have on hand at all times to do mathematical physics.Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Cecile DeWitt-Morette, and Margaret Dillard-Bleick:Analysis, manifolds, and physics (2 volumes)Something every mathematical physicist should have at his bedside until he knows it inside and out--but some people say it's not especially easy to read.Jean Dieudonne: A panorama of pure mathematics, as seen by N. Bourbaki, translated by I.G. Macdonald.Gives the big picture in mathematics.Robert Hermann: Lie groups for physicists, Benjamin-Cummings, 1966.George Mackey: Quantum mechanics from the point of view of the theory of group representations, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1984.George Mackey: Unitary group representations in physics, probability, and number theory.Charles Nash and S. Sen: Topology and geometry for physicists.B. Booss and D.D. Bleecker: Topology and analysis: the Atiyah-Singer index formula and gauge-theoretic physics.Bamberg and S. Sternberg: A Course of Mathematics for Students of PhysicsBishop & Goldberg: Tensor Analysis on Manifolds.Dodson & Poston: Tensor Geometry.Abraham, Marsden & Ratiu: Manifolds, Tensor Analysis and Applications.M. Nakahara: Topology, Geometry and Physics.Morandi: The Role of Topology in Classical and Quantum PhysicsSinger, Thorpe: Lecture Notes on Elementary Topology and GeometryL. Kauffman: Knots and Physics, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.C. Yang and M. Ge: Braid group, Knot Theory & Statistical Mechanics.D. Kastler: C-algebras and their applications to Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory.Courant and Hilbert: Methods of Mathematical Physics WileyReally a mathematics book in disguise. Emphasis on ODEs and PDEs. Proves existence, etc. Very comprehensive. 2 volumes.Cecille Dewitt is publishing a book on manifolds that should be out soon (maybe already is). Very high level, but supposedly of great importance for anyone needing to set the Feynman path integral in a firm foundation.Howard Georgi: Lie Groups for Particle Phyiscs Addison Wesley Frontiers in Physics Series.Synge and Schild.Atomic PhysicsMax Born: Atomic PhysicsA classic, though a little old.Gerhard Herzberg: Atomic spectra and atomic structure, Translated with the co-operation of the author by J. W. T.Spinks. — New York, Dover publications, 1944Old but good.E. U. Condon and G. H. Shortley: The theory of atomic spectra, CUP 1951G. K. Woodgate: Elementary atomic structure, 2d ed. Oxford: New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1983, c 1980Introductory level.Alan Corney: Atomic and laser spectroscopy, Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press, 1977Excellent,fairly advanced, large experimental bent, but good development of background. Good stuff on lasers (gas, dye)Low Temperature Physics, SuperconductivityThe Theory of Quantum Liquids, by D. Pines and P. NozieresSuperconductivity of Metals and Alloys, P. G. DeGennes A classic introduction.Theory of Superconductivity, J. R. SchriefferSuperconductivity, M. TinkhamExperimental techniques in low-temperature physics, by Guy K. White.This is considered by many as a "bible" for those working in experimental low-temperature.Actually it's the copy of my own answer.You will get all the books on amazon.in