Winter Quarter 2012 Textbook List

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Physical Sciences: 11200 - Foundation of Modern Physics II

Instructor:  Scott Wakely

Text Tittle: Phsycis and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to Essential Physics for Every World Leader Needs to Know
Author: Richard A. Muller
ISBN: 978-0691-135045
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Required Text

Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook



PHYSICS 12200 - General Physics IIA- Electricity & Magnetism

INSTRUCTOR:  Margaret Gardel


Text Title:  Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, 2nd ed.
Author:  Randall K. Knight
ISBN Number-13: 978 080 532 7366 (vols. 1-5 special boxed set)
Publisher: Pearson/Addison Wesley
Required Text

Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook 

 

PHYSICS 13200(A) - Electricity & Magnetism
INSTRUCTOR: Sidney Nagel


Text Title: University Physics Volume 2 (Chapters 21-37), 13th edition
Author: Hugh D. Young & Roger A. Freeman
ISBN: 978-0-321-75121-8
Publisher: Pearson
Required Text

Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required

PHYSICS 13200(B) - Electricity & Magnetism
INSTRUCTOR: Edward Blucher


Text Title: University Physics Volume 2 (Chapters 21-37), 13th edition
Author: Hugh D. Young & Roger A. Freeman
ISBN: 978-0-321-75121-8
Publisher: Pearson
Required Text

Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required

PHYSICS 14200 - Honors Electricity & Magnetism
INSTRUCTOR: Henry Frisch


Text Title: Electricity & Magnetism(Berkley Physics Course, vol. 2) 2nd edition
Author: Edward Purcell
ISBN: 978-1107-013605
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Required Text


Text Title: Introduction to Error Analysis, 2nd edition
Author:  John R. Taylor
ISBN: 978-0935-702750
Publisher: University Science Books
Required Text

 

Text Tittle: Div, grad, curl and all that, 4th edition
Author: H. M. Schey
ISBN: 978-0393-92516
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Required Text

 

Text Tittle: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition
Author: David J. Griffiths
ISBN: 978-0138-053260
Publisher: Pearson/Addison Wesley
Recommended Text

 

Text Tittle: Electromagnetic Field and Waves, 2nd edition
Author: Paul Lorrain & Dale Corson
ISBN: 0-7167-03319
Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
Recommended Text

 

Text Tittle: The Feynman: Lectures on Physics, Vol. II
Author: Feynman, Leighton, & Sands
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Recommended Text


Text Tittle: Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd edition
Author: R. Shankar
ISBN: 978-0306-44907
Publisher: Springer
Recommended Text


Accompanying Lab Maual and Lab Notebook Required

 

Physics 18500 -  Intermediate Mechanics

Instructor: Thomas Witten

Text Tittle: Classical Mechanics
Author: John R. Taylor
ISBN: 1-891389-22-X
Publisher: University Science Books
Required Text

 

Text Tittle: Classical Mechanics
Author: Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, & John Safko
ISBN: 978-0201-657029
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Recommended Text

 

Text Tittle: Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, 2nd edition
Author: V.I. Arnold
ISBN: 978-0387-968902
Publisher: Springer
Recommended Text


PHYSICS 21100 –Experimental Physics
INSTRUCTOR: Juan Collar

No Required Text

PHYSICS 22500 – Intermediate Electricity & Magnetism
INSTRUCTOR:  James Pilcher

Text Tittle: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition(1998)
Author: David J. Griffiths
ISBN: 978-0138-053260
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Required Text


Text Tittle: Electromagnetic Fields, 2nd edition
Author: Roald K. Wangsness
ISBN: 978-0-471-81186-2
Publisher: Wiley
Recommended Text

 

 


PHYSICS 23600 – Solid State Physics
INSTRUCTOR:  Woowon Kang


Text Title: Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th edition
Author: Charles Kittel
ISBN: 978-0471-415268
Publisher: Wiley
Recommended Text

Physics 23800-  Atomic Phyiscs
INSTRUCTOR:  Zheng-Tian Lu

 

Text Tittle: Atomic Phyics
Author: Christopher J. Foot
ISBN: 978-0198-506966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Required Text


 

Physics 31700-  Symplectic Methods of Classical Dynamics
INSTRUCTOR: Paul Wiegmann

 TBA
 

Physics 32200 - Advanced Electrodynamics I
INSTRUCTOR: Guy Savard

 

Text Tittle: Classical Electrodynamics
Author: J.D. Jackson
ISBN: 978-0-471-309321
Publisher: Wiley
Required Text



PHYSICS 34200 – Graduate Quantum Mechanics II
INSTRUCTOR: Savdeep Sethi

 

Text Tittle: Modern Quantum Mechanics, 2nd edition
Author: J.J. Sakurai and Jim Napolitano
ISBN: 978-0805-382914
Publisher: Addison/Wesley
Required Text


Text Tittle: Quantum Mechanics, 3rd edition
Author: Eugen Merzbacher
ISBN: 0-471-887021
Publisher: Wiley
Recommended Text

PHYSICS 35200  – Statistical Mechanics
INSTRUCTOR:  Cheng Chin


Text Title: Statistical Physics
Author: L.D. Landau & E.M. Lifshitz
ISBN-13: 978-0750-633727
Publisher: Elsevier
Required Text


PHYSICS 36400 – General Relativity
INSTRUCTOR:  Robert Wald

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


PHYSICS 36700 – Soft Condensed Matter Physics
INSTRUCTOR: Gene Mazenko


Text Title: Fluctuations, Order and Defects
Author:  G. F. Mazenko
ISBN: 978-0471-328407
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Required Text
 
 

PHYSICS 44400- Quantum Filed Theory I
INSTRUCTOR: Lian-Tao Wang

Text Tittle: An Introduction to Quantum Theory I
Author: Michael D. Peskin & Dan V. Shroeder
ISBN: 978-0201-503975
Publisher: Perseus Books
RequiredText

 
Text Title: Modern Quantum Field Theory: A Concise Introduction
Author: Tom Banks
ISBN: 978-0521-850827
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Octorber 27, 2008)
Recommended Text


Text Tittle: Quantum Field Theory
Author: Mark Srednicki
ISBN: 978-0521-864497
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition(February 5, 2007)
Recommended Text

 

  PHYSICS 46400-Topics in General Relativity

Instructor: Robert Geroch

No Textbook Required

PHYSICS 48300- String Theory I

Instructor: David Kutasov

Text Tittle: Superstring Theory Vol. 1 & 2
Author: M. Green, J. Schwarz & E. Witten
ISBN(vol. 1): 978-0521-357524
ISBN(vol. 2): 978-0521-357531
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Recommended Text


Text Tittle: String Theory, Vol. 1 & 2
Author: J. Polchinski
ISBN(vol.1) 978-0521-63301
ISBN(vol.2): 978-0521-633048
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Recommended Text


Text Tittle: String Theory and M-Theory
Author: K. Becker, M. Becker & J. Schwarz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Recommended Text


Text Tittle: String Theory in a Nutshell
Author: E. Kiritsis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Recommended Text