Spring Quarter 2013 Textbook List
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PHYSICS 12300 - General Physics III
Instructor: Heinrich Jaeger
Required Textbook : Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, 3rd ed.
Author: Randall K. Knight
ISBN Number-13: 978 0321 740908
Publisher: Pearson/Addison Wesley
Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook
PHYSICS 13300(A) - Waves, Optics & Heat
Instructor: Yau Wah
Required Textbook: University Physics Volume 1(Chapters 1-20), 13th edition
Author: Hugh D. Young & Roger A. Freeman
ISBN: 978-0321-73338-2
Publisher: Pearson
Required Textbook: University Physics Volume 2 (Chapters 21-37), 13th edition
Author: Hugh D. Young & Roger A. Freeman
ISBN: 978-0-321-75121-8
Publisher: Pearson
Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required
PHYSICS 13300(B) - Waves, Optics & Heat
Instructor: David Schmitz
Required Textbook: University Physics Volume 1(Chapters 1-20), 13th edition
Author: Hugh D. Young & Roger A. Freeman
ISBN: 978-0321-73338-2
Publisher: Pearson
Required Textbook: University Physics Volume 2 (Chapters 21-37), 13th edition
Author: Hugh D. Young & Roger A. Freeman
ISBN: 978-0-321-75121-8
Publisher: Pearson
Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook Required
PHYSICS 14300 - Honors Waves, Optics & Heat
Instructor: Woowon Kang
Required Textbook: The Physics of Waves(Electronic Version)
Author: Howard Georgi
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Recommended Text: Physics for Science and Engineering
Author; William F. Hornyak & Jerry B. Marion
ISBN: 0030628318
Publisher: Saunders College Publishing
Recommended Text: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences,3rd edition
Author: Mary L. Boas
ISBN: 0471198269
Publisher: Wiley
Accompanying Lab Manual and Lab Notebook Required
PHYSICS 21103 –Experimental Physics
Instructor: Yau Wah
No Required Text
Physics 22600- Electronics
Instructor: Scott Wakely
Required Textbook: The Art of Electronics
Author: Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-052-1370-950
Author: Thomas Hayes & Paul Horowitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-052-1377-096
Physics 22700 – Intermediate Electricity & Magnetism II
Instructor: Henry Frisch
Required Textbook: Electromagnetic Fields & Waves, 3rd edition
Author: Paul Lorrain & Dale Corson
Publisher: W. H. Freeman & Company
Recommended Text: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition
Author: David Griffiths
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 978-0138-053260
Recommended Text: Electromagnetic Fields, 2nd edition
Author: Roald Wangness
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 047-1811866
Recommended Text: Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd edition
Author: John David Jackson
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0-471-309-32X
Recommended Text: Classical Electromagnetic Radiation
Author: Mark Heald & Jerry Marion
Publisher: Dover Press
ISBN: 978-04864-90601
Recommended Text: Signal Integrity, simplified, 2nd edition
Author: Eric Bogatin
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN: 978-01323-4796
Physics 23400 – Quantum Mechanics I
Instructor: Jeffrey Harvey
Required Textbook: Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd edition
Author: R. Shankar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-0306-44797
Recommended Text: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, 2nd edition
Author: David Griffiths
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall
ISBN: 978-0131-118928
Physics 23700 - Nuclear and Particle Physics
Instructor: Frank Merritt
Required Textbook: Introduction to Elementary Particles
Author: David Griffiths
Publisher: Wiley-VCH; 2nd edition
ISBN: 978-3527-406012
Physics 32300- Advanced Electrodynamics II
Instructor: Kwang- Je Kim
Required Textbook: Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd edition
Author: J. D. Jackson
ISBN Number: 978-0471-309321
Publisher: Wiley
Reserve Text: The Classical Theory of Fields, 4th edition, Vol. 2
Author: L. D. Landau & E. M. Lifshitz
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 978-07506-27689
Reserve Text: Electrodynamics of Continous Media, 2nd edition, Vol. 8
Author: L. D. Landau & E. M. Lifshitz
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN:978-07506-2634
Physics 36300 – Introduction to Particle Physics
Instructor: Carlos Wagner
Required Text: Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics
Author: Francis Halzen & Alan Martin
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 978-0471-887416
Recommended Text: Modern Elementary Particle Physics: Updated Edition
Author: Gordon L. Kane
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN: 978-0201-624601
Recommended Text: Introduction to Particle Physics
Author: David Griffiths
Publisher: Wiley-VCH(2nd edition)
ISBN: 978-3527-406012
Recommended Text: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Authors: Michael Peskin & Dan V. Schroeder
Publisher: Perseus Books
ISBN: 0-201-50397-2
Recommended Text: Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Phyiscs
Author: Ta-Pei Cheng and Ling-Fong Li
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0-1985-19613
Physics 37200 – Space Physics & Astrophysics
Instructor: Juan Collar
Physics 38600 – Advanced Methods of Data Analysis
Instructor: Stephen Meyer
TBA
Physics 41800- Modern Statistical Mechanics
Instructor: Paul Wiegmann
TBA
Physics 42600: Fluid Dynamics
Instructor: Wendy Zhang
Required Text: Elementary Fluid Dynamics
Author: D.J. Acheson
Publisher: University Press
ISBN: 978-0198-596790
Required Text: Hydrodynamics and Nonlinear Instabilities
Editors: C. Codreche & P. Manneville
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0521-017633
Required Text: Vortex Dynamics
Author: P. G. Saffman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0521-477390
Required Text: Applied Mathematics
Author: J. David Logan
Publisher: Wiley Interscience
ISBN: 978-0471-746621
Recommended Text: An Album of Fluid Motion
Author: Milton Van Dyke
Publisher: Parabolic Press
ISBN: 978-0915-60022
Reserve only Text: An Informal Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics
Author: James Lighthill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0198-536307
Recommended Text: Fluid Mechanics,
Author: Landau & Lifshitz
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 978-07506-27672
Recommended Text: Physical Fluid Dynamics
Author: D. J. Tritton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0198-544937
Recommended Text: Dynamics of Polymeric Fluids: Fluid Mechanics, vol. 1
Author: Bird, Armstrong & Hassage
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2nd edition
Author: Chaikin & Lubensky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0521-794503
Physics 44500 – Quantum Field Theory III
Instructor: Richard Hill
Required Text: An Introduction to Quantum Theory
Author: Michael E. Peskin & Dan V. Schroeder
Publisher: Perseus Books
ISBN: 978-0201-503975
Recommended Text: The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume 1: Foundations
Author: Steven Weingberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-05216-70531
Recommended Text: The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume 2: Modern Applications
Author: Steven Weinberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0521-670548
Author: Ta-Pei Cheng & Ling-Fong Li
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0198-519614
Physics 46500- Quantum Theory of Black Holes
Instructor: Emil Martinec
No Required Text
