Textbook List
Spring Quarter 2008

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COURSE:  Physics 12300 - General Physics 1IIA Waves, Optics and Introduction to Modern Physics
Instructor: Heinrich Jaeger

Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers
Author:  Randall D. Knight
Publisher:  Pearson/Addison Wesley
ISBN: 0 805 389 822 (Volumes 1-5--special boxed set)
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*NOTE* Accompanying Lab Manual and Student Lab Notebook required.

COURSE: Physics 13300a - General Physics III, Waves, Optics and Introduction to Modern Physics
Instructor:  Scott Wakely

Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd edition
Author:  Paul Fishbane
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013141883- Volume 1, (chapters 1-20)
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Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd edition
Author:  Paul Fishbane
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013141881-5 - Volume II, (chapters 21-38)
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Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd edition
Author:  Paul Fishbane
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013141882-3 - Volume III, (chapters 39-45)
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COURSE: Physics 13300b - General Physics III, Waves, Optics and Introduction to Modern Physics
Instructor:  Stuart Gazes

Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd edition
Author:  Paul Fishbane
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013141883- Volume 1, (chapters 1-20)
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Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd edition
Author:  Paul Fishbane
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013141881-5 - Volume II, (chapters 21-38)
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Text Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd edition
Author:  Paul Fishbane
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013141882-3 - Volume III, (chapters 39-45)
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COURSE: Physics 14300 - General Physics III (Honors) Waves, Optics and Introduction to Modern Physics
Instructor: Woowon Kang

Textbook Title: Introduction to Wave Phenomena
Author: Akira Hirose & Karl Lonngren
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN Number: 1575242311
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Textbook Title: Vibrations and Waves
Author: A.P. French
Publisher: CRC
ISBN Number: 0 748744479
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Textbook Title: Optics
Author: Eugene Hecht
Publisher: Addison Wesley
ISBN Number: 0-8053-8566-5
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COURSE: Physics 22600 - Electronics
Instructor:  Philippe Cluzel

Text Title: The Art of Electronics, 2nd ed.,
Author:  Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 05213798507
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Text Title: Lab Manual for 'The Art of Electronics'
Author:  Horowitz & Robinson
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  0 52137709 99
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COURSE:  Physics 22700 - Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism II
Instructor:  Mark Oreglia

Text Title: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd ed.
Author: D. Griffiths
Publisher:  Addison Wesley
ISBN: 9 780138053260
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COURSE:  Physics 23400 - Quantum Mechanics 1
Instructor:  Frank Merritt

Text Title: Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Author:  Ravi Shankar
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
ISBN: 0 306 44790 8
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Text Title: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Author:  David Griffiths
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings

Text Title: Quantum Physics
Author:  Stephen Gasiorowicz
Publisher: Wiley

Text Title: Introductory Quantum Mechanics
Author:  Richard Liboff
Publisher: Addison Wesley

Text Title: Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory, vol. 3, 3rd ed.,
Author:  Landau & Lifshitz
Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann

CCourse: Physics 23700 - Nuclei and Elementary Particles
Instructor:  Juan Collar

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COURSE: Physics 26000 - Fluid Dynamics
Instructor: Wendy Zhang

Text Title: Elementary Fluid Dynamics (Oxford Applied Mathematics and Computing Science Series) (Paperback)
Author:  D. J. Acheson (Author)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 9, 1990)
ISBN-10: 0198596790
ISBN-13: 978-0198596790
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Text Title: Physical Fluid Dynamics (Oxford Science Publications) (Paperback)
Author: J. Tritton (Author)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (November 3, 1988)
ISBN-10: 0198544936
ISBN-13: 978-0198544937
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Text Title: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Paperback)
Author: Joseph Pedlosky (Author)
Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. 1987. Corr. 2nd printing edition (March 25, 1992)
ISBN-10: 0387963871
ISBN-13: 978-0387963877
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Text Title: Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves (Hardcover)
Author(s): Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (September 12, 2003)
ISBN-10: 0387005927
ISBN-13: 978-0387005928
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COURSE: Physics 31700-Symplectic Methods of Classical Dynamics
Instructor:  Ilya Gruzberg

Text Title: Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
Author: V. I. Arnold
Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. 1989. Cor. 4th printing edition  (September 5, 1997)
ISBN-10: 0387968903
ISBN-13: 978-0387968902
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Text Title: Classical Dynamics: A Contemporary Approach (Paperback)
Author: Jorge V. José
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 13, 1998)
ISBN-10: 0521636361
ISBN-13: 978-0521636360
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COURSE:  Physics 32300 - Advanced Electrodynamics II
Instructor:  Guy Savard

Text Title: Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd edition
Author:  John David Jackson
Publisher:  John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047130932X
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COURSE:  Physics 33400 - Advanced Experimental Physics
Instructor:  Jonathan Rosner

Text Title: Experiments in Modern Physics, 2nd ed.,
Author:  Melissinos and Napolitano
Publisher:  Academic Press
ISBN: 978-0 12 489851 6
ISBN: 0 -12 489851 3
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COURSE:  Physics 35200 - Statistical Mechanics
Instructor:  Gene Mazenko

Text Title: Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Author:  Gene Mazenko
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
ISBN:  0471328391
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COURSE: Physics 36300 - Particle Physics
Instructor: Henry Frisch

Text Title: The Experiment Foundations of Particle Physics
Author:  Robert N. Cahn
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
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Text Title:  Introduction to High Energy Physics, 4th ed.
Author:  Donald H Perkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0 521 62196 8
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Text Title:  A Passion for Discovery
Author:  Peter Freund
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Text Title:  Fermi Remembered
Author:  James Cronin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Text Title:  Alvarez: Adventurs of a Physicist
Author:  Luis Alvarez (Alfred Sloane Foundation Series)
Publisher: Basic Books/Perseus Book Group
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COURSE: Physics 37100 - Introduction to Cosmology
Course Instructor:  Carlos Wagner

Textbook Title: The Early Universe-OUT-OF-PRINT
Author: E.W. Kolb and M.S. Turner
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN Number: 0-201-11603-0 (H),  0-201-62674-8 (P)
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Textbook Title: Modern Cosmology
Author: Scott Dodelson
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0-12-219141-2
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Textbook Title: Cosmological Physics
Author: John A. Peacock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0 521042270-1
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COURSE:  Physics 42000-Superconductivity and Superfluidity
Course Instructor: Kathryn Levin

Textbook:  Introduction to Superconductivity  (2nd edition)
Author:  M. Tinkham
Publisher:  McGraw Hill
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Textbook:  Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems
Author:  Fetter and Walecka
Publisher:  McGraw Hill
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COURSE: Physics 44500-Quantum Field Theory III
Course Instructor: Paul Wiegmann

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