Physics Winter Quarter 2010 Textbook List
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Physical Sciences 11200 - Foundations of Modern Physics II
Instructor: Heinrich Jaeger
Text Title: Physics for Future Presidents (Fal 2009 edition
Author: Richard Muller
Publisher: Primis Custom Publishing
ISBN-10: 0 697 786 153
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Text Title: Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond, 2nd ed.-March 2001
Author: Gerald Holton
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0 813 529 085
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Text Title: Schaum's Outlines, College Physics, 10th ed.
Author: Frederick J. Bueche & Eugene Hecht
Publisher: McGraw Hill
ISBN-10: 007 144 8144
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Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required
Physics 12200 - General Physics 1IA-Electricity & Magnetism
Instructor: David Biron
Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers
Author: Randall D. Knight
Publisher: Pearson/Addison Wesley
ISBN-13: 978 080 532 7366 (Volumes 1-5--special boxed set)
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Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required
13200a - General Physics IIB - Electricity & Magnetism
Instructor: Edward Blucher
Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 7th ed.
Author: Serway & Jewett
Publisher: Brooks Cole-(4 volume set chaps. 1-39) March 19, 2007
ISBN-10: 0 495 113 751
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Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required
13200b - General Physics IIB - Electricity & Magnetism
Instructor: Isaac Abella
Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 7th ed.
Author: Serway & Jewett
Publisher: Brooks Cole-(4 volume set chaps. 1-39) March 19, 2007
ISBN-10: 0 495 113 751
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Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required
Physics 14200 - General Physics II (Honors) Electricity & Magnetism
Instructor: Frank Merritt
Text Title: Electricity & Magnetism
Author: Edward M. Purcell
Publisher: McGraw Hill On-Demand
ISBN: 978 039 093 9999
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Text Title: An Introduction to Error Analysis
Author: John R. Taylor
Publisher: University Science Books
ISBN-10: 0 935 702 75X
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Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required
Physics 18500 - Intermediate Mechanics
Instructor: Woowon Kang
Text Title: Classical Mechanics
Author: John R. Taylor
Publisher: University Science Books
ISBN-10: 1 891 389 22X
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Physics 21100 - Experimental Physics
Instructor(s): Scott Wakely
Text Title: An Introduction to Error Analysis
Author: John R. Taylor
Publisher: University Science Books
ISBN: 0 935 702 75X
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Physics 22500 - Intermediate Electricity & Magnetism I
Instructor: Yau Wah
Text Title: Introduction to Electrodynamics
Author: David J. Griffiths
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN-10: 0 138 053 26X
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Text Title: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
Author(s): Lorrain and Corson
Publisher: Freeman Publishers
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Text Title: Classical Electrodynamics
Author: J.D. Jackson
Publisher: Wiley Publishers
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Text Title: Electromagnetic Fields
Author: R. Wangness
Publisher: Wiley Publishers
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Text Title: Classical Electricity and Magentism
Author: W. Panosky and M. Phillips
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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Text Title: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 2
Author: R. Feynman
Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Text Title: Classical Electromagnetic Fields
Author: L. Eyges
Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Physics 23700 - Nuclei and Elementary Particles
Instructor: Guy Savard
Text Title: Particles and Nuclei: an Introduction to the physical concepts
Author: bogdan Povh
Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISBN-13: 978 354 079 3670
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Physics 25100 - Chaos, Complexity and Computers
Instructor: Tom Witten
Text Title: Head First Java, 2nd ed.,
Author: Kathy Sierra
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
ISBN-10: 0 596 009 208
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Text Title: Numerical Analysis, 6th ed.
Author: Richard L. Burden
Publisher: Brooks Coles/Cengage Publishing
ISBN-10: 0 534 955 320
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Text Title: Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction
Author: Gregory L. Baker & J.P. Gollub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 0 521 476 852
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Text Title: Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77: The Art of Scientific Computing (v.1)
Author: William H. Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Text Title: Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing
Author: William H. Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Text Title: An Introduction to Compuber Simulation Methods: Applications to Physical Systems, 2nd ed.
Author: Harvey Gould
Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Text Title: The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorationsof Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems and Adaptation
Author: Gary Flake
Publisher: MIT Press, 1999
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Text Title: Godel, Eischer, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher: Vintage Books, 1st vintage Books ed., (Sept.. 12, 1980)
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Text Title: Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction, 2nd ed.
Author: Gregory L. Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Text Title: Nonlinear Dynamics and chaos: with applications to physics, biology, chemistry and engineering
Author: Steven H. Strogatz
Publisher: Westview Press
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Text Title: Universality in chaos, 2nd ed.
Author: Predrag Cvitanovic
Publisher: Adam Hilger-1989 (Taylor & Francis, 1 ed., Jan. 1989)
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Physics 32200 - Advanced Electrodynamics I
Instructor: Mark Oreglia
Text Title: Classical Electrodynamics
Author: John D. Jackson
Publisher: Wiley Publishers
ISBN-10: 0 471 309 32X
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Physics 34200 - Graduate Quantum Mechanics I
Instructor: Savdeep Sethi
Text Title: Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed.
Author: Ravi Shankar
Publisher: Plenum Press
ISBN-10: 0 306 447 908
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Physics 35200 - Statistical Mechanics
Instructor: Cheng Chen
Text Title: Statistical Physics, 3rd ed., Part 1
Author: Landau & Lifshitz
Publisher: Elsevier-Butterworth/Heineman
ISBN-13: 978 075 063 3727
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Physics 34100 - Graduate Quantum Mechanics I
Instructor: Savdeep Sethi
Text Title: Principles of Quantum Mecanics, 2nd ed.
Author: R. Shankar
Publisher: Plenum Press
ISBN-10: 0 3067 447 908
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Physics 36400 - General Relativity
Instructor: Jeffrey Harvey
Text Title: Spacetime and Geometry
Author: Sean Carroll
Publisher: Addison Wesley
ISBN-10: 0 805 387 323
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Text Title: General Relativity
Author: Robert Wald
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0 226 870 332
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Physics 36700 - Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Instructor: Gene Mazenko
To Be Announced
Physics 38500 - symmetric Hyperbolic Systems
Instructor: Paul Wiegmann
To Be Announced
Physics 43000 - Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems
Instructor: Woowon Kang
No Required Textbook
Physics 48300 - Sring Theory I
Instructor: Robert Geroch
No Requied Textbook
Physics 44400 - Quantum Field Theory II
Instructor: David Kutasov
Text Title: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Author: Michael Peskin & Daniel Schroeder
Publisher: Westview Press (Perseus Group)
ISBN-10: 0 20 503 972
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Physics 45200 - Atomic Bose and Fermi Gasses
Instructor: Kathryn Levin
Text Title: Introduction to Superconductivity: 2nd ed.
Author: Michael Tinkham
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN-10: 0 486 435 032
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Text Title: Quantum Theory of Many Particles
Author: Fetter & Walecka
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN-10: 0 486428 273
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Text Title: Bose Einstein Condensation (The International Series of Monographs on Physics)
Author: L. Pitaevskii
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0 198 507 194
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Text Title: Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases
Author: C.J. Pethick & H. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 0 521 846 51X
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Physics 47200 - Dark Matter
Instructor: Jonathan Rosner and Juan Collar
No Required Textbook
Physics 48400 - String Theory II
Instructor: Emil Martinec
Text Title: String Theory, vol. 1: Superstring Theory and Beyond
Author: Joseph Polchinski
Publisher: Cambrdige University Press
ISBN-10: 0 521 672 279
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Text Title: Strig Theory, vol. II: Monographs on Mathematical Physics
Author: Joseph Polchinski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 0 521 672 287
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