Physics Winter Quarter 2011 Textbook List

Textbooks available for purchase at Barnes & Noble Bookstore: 970 East 58th Street - Chicago, will also be put on reserve at Crerar Library.

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Physical Sciences 11200 - Foundations of Modern Physics II
Instructor: Scott Wakely

Text Title: Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know
Author: Richard Muller
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 978-0-691-13504-5
Required Text

 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, 2nd edition
Author: Randall D. Knight
Publisher: Pearson/Addison Wesley
ISBN-13: 978 080 532 7366 (Volumes 1-5--special boxed set)
Required Text

Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required

13200a - General Physics IIB - Electricity & Magnetism
Instructor: Sidney Nagel

Text Title:University Physics, volume 2(Chapters 21-40)
Author: Bauer & Westfall
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0077354796/9780077354794
Required Text

Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required

13200b - General Physics IIB - Electricity & Magnetism
Instructor: Isaac Abella

Text Title: University Physics, volume 2(Chapters 21-40)
Author: Bauer & Westfall
Publisher: McGraw Hill
ISBN: 0077354796/9780077354794
Required Text

Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required

Physics 14200 - General Physics II (Honors) Electricity & Magnetism
Instructor: Henry Frisch

Text Title: Electricity & Magnetism, Berkely Physics Course, volume 2(2nd edition)
Author: Edward M. Purcell
Publisher: McGraw Hill On-Demand
ISBN: 978 039 093 9999
Required Text

Text Title: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
Author: Paul Lorrain and Dale Corson
Publisher: Freeman
ISBN: 0-7167-0331-9
Recommeded Text

The Feynman: Lectures on Physics, volume II
Author: Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands
Publisher: Addison/Wesley
ISBN: 0- 201-02011-4-H

Recommended Text

Text Title: Introduction  to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition
Author: David J. Griffiths
Publisher: Pearson/Addison
ISBN: 0 13 805326 X

Recommended Text

Text Title: Physics for Engineers and Scientists, 3rd edition, volume 2
Author: Hans C. Ohanian and John T. Markert
Publisher: W. W. Horton & Company
ISBN: 978-0-393-93004-7

Recommended Text

Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required

Physics 18500 - Intermediate Mechanics
Instructor: Thomas Witten

Text Title: Classical Mechanics
Author: John R. Taylor
Publisher: University Science Books
ISBN-10: 1 891 389 22X
Required Text

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
Required Text

Physics 22300 - Topics in Mathematical Physics
Instructor: Robert Geroch

No Required Text     

Physics 22500 - Intermediate Electricity & Magnetism
Instructor: James Pilcher

Text Title: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition(1998)
Author: David J. Griffiths
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN-13: 9780138053260
Required Text

Text Title: Electromagnetic Fields, 2nd edition (1986)
Author: Roald K. Wangsness
ISBN: 978-0-471-81186-2
Publisher: Wiley

Recommended Text

Physics 23700 - Nuclei & Elementary Particles
Instructor: Guy Savard

Text Title: Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to Physical Concepts
Author: B. Povh, K. Rith, C. Scholz and F. Zetsche
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-354-079-3670
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Physics 32200 - Advanced Electrodynamics I
Instructor: Mark Oreglia

Text Title: Classical Electrodynamics
Author: John D. Jackson
Publisher: Wiley Publishers
ISBN: 978-0-471-390932
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Physics 34200 - Graduate Quantum Mechanics I
Instructor: Jonathan Rosner

Text Title: Modern Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed.
Author: J. J. Sakurai and Jim Napolitano
Publisher: Addison/Wesley
ISBN: 978-08053-8291-4
Required Text

Text Title: Quantum Mechanics, 3rd edition
Author: Eugen Merzbacher
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0 471 88702 1

Recommended Text

Physics 35200 - Statistical Mechanics
Instructor: Leo Kadanoff

Text Title: Statistical Physics
Author: Kadanoof
Publisher: World Scientific
Recommended Text

Text Title: Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity
Author: James P. Sethna
Publisher: Oxford University Press: Oxford Master Series in Physics
ISBN-13: 978019856779
ISBN-10: 0 198566778

Recommended Text


Physics 36400 - General Relativity
Instructor: Robert Wald

Text Title: General Relativity
Author: Robert Wald
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0-226-870332

Required Text

Physics 36600 - Hard Condensed Matter Physics
Instructor Ilya Gruzberg

No Required Textbook

Text Title: Condensed Matter Field Theory
Author: Alexander Altland   and Ben D. Simons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (April 30, 2010)
ISBN-10: 0521769752
ISBN-13: 978-05217699754
Recommended Text

Physics 38500 - Advanced Math Methods in Physics
Instructor: Savdeep Sethi

No Required Textbook


Text Title: Lie Algebra in Particle Physics, 2nd edition
Author: Howard Georgi
Publisher: Frontiers in Physics
ISBN: 0 738 202 339

Recommended Text

Physics 42700 - Elasticity & Fracture
Instructor: Wendy Zhang

Text Title:  Theory of Shell Structures
Author: C. R. Calladine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 31, 1989
 ISBN-10: 0521369452
ISBN-13: 978-0521369459

Required Text

Text Title:  Theory of Elasticity, 3rd edition, volume 7 (Theoretic al Physics)
Author: L. D. Landau, L. P. Pitaevskii, E.M. Lifshitz & A. M. Kosevich
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann;3rd edition(January 15, 1986)
ISBN-10: 075062633X
ISBN-13: 978-0750626330

Recommended Text

Text Title: Principles of Condensed Matter Physics, 1st edition(October  9, 2000)
Author: P. M. Chaikin & T. C. Lubensky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 0521794501
ISBN-13: 978-0521794503

Recommeneded Text

Physics 44400 - Quantum Field Theory II
Instructor: Emil Martinec

Text Title: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Author: Michael Peskin & Daniel Schroeder
Publisher: Westview Press (Perseus Group)
ISBN: 0 020 503 972/978 02015 03975

Required Text

Physics 48601 - Gauge/Gravitiy Duality
Instructor: Jeffrey Harvey

No Required Textbook

Physics 49100 - Biological Physics
Instructor: David Biron

No Required Text