Spring 2023 Textbook List
Textbooks are available for purchase or rental at Barnes & Noble Bookstore: 970 East 58th Street and will also be put on reserve at Crerar Library. Barnes & Noble Bookstore also offers the option of purchasing digital textbooks.
Crerar Library Reserve Information
John Crerar Library, 5730 S. Ellis Ave., is dedicated to making course material and books available to students in the Physical Sciences. Students may access materials by physical packets from the circulation desk area or download course handouts, lecture notes, assignments, homework, quiz, and exam solutions from the U Chicago Library Web page. On that page, click "Reserve Catalog;" on the next page, select "Crerar Reserve" and enter any search terms that identify your course.
Physical Sciences 11800- Physics and Contemporary Architecture
Instructor: Heinrich Jaeger
No text required
Physics 123-01 – General Physics III
Instructor: Juan Collar
Required: Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, 4th edition( e-textbook available)
Author: Randall K. Knight
Publisher: Pearson/Addison Wesley
ISBN-13: 978 013 394 2651
Physics 123-02 – General Physics III
Instructor: Luca Grandi
Required: Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, 4th edition( e-textbook available)
Author: Randall K. Knight
Publisher: Pearson/Addison Wesley
ISBN-13: 978 013 394 2651
Physics 133-01 – Waves, Optics & Heat
Instructor: Savan Kharel
Required : University Physics Volume 15th edition( e-textbook available)
Author: Hugh D. Young & Roger A. Freedman
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN: 978 013515 9552
Physics 133-02 – Waves, Optics & Heat
Instructor: David Reid
Required : University Physics Volume 15th edition( e-textbook available)
Author: Hugh D. Young & Roger A. Freedman
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN: 978 013515 9552
Physics 133-03 – Waves, Optics, & Heat
Instructor: Savan Kharel
Required : University Physics Volume 15th edition( e-textbook available)
Author: Hugh D. Young & Roger A. Freedman
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN: 978 013515 9552
Physics 143-01 – Honors Waves, Optics & Heat
Instructor: Carlos Wagner
Required : Waves(online text)
Author: David Morin
https://scholar.harvard.edu/david-morin/waves
Title: Thermal Physics
Author: Daniel V. Schroeder
ISBN: 978 01928 95547
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Physics 143-02 – Honors Waves, Optics & Heat
Instructor: Mark Oreglia
Required : Waves(online text)
Author: David Morin
https://scholar.harvard.edu/david-morin/waves
Title: Thermal Physics
Author: Daniel V. Schroeder
ISBN: 978 01928 95547
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Physics 21103- Experimental Physics
Instructor: Luca Grandi
No textbook materials
Physics 226 – Electronics
Instructor: Yau Wah
TBA
Physics 227- Intermediate Electricity & Magnetism II
Instructor: Robert Wald
Required: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th edition
Author: David Griffiths
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN: 978 03218 56562
Physics 23510: Quantum Mechanics II
Instructor: Michael Levin
Required: Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Author: R. Shankar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978 03064 47907
Recommended: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Author: David Griffith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978 1107 189638
Physics 237: Nuclei and Elementary Particles
Instructor: Henry Frisch
Required: Introduction to Elementary Particles, 2nd edition
Author: David Griffiths
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 978 35274 06012
Required: Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics, 2nd edition
Author: David Griffiths
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978 05116 09923
Physics 323 – Advanced Electrodynamics II
Instructor: Guy Savard
Recommended: Classical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell
Author: Anupam Garg
ISBN: 978 06911 30187
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Physics 352 – Statistical Mechanics
Instructor: Wendy Zhang
TBA
Physics 363- Introduction to Particle Physics
Instructor: Marcela Carena
TBA
Physics 367 – Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Instructor: Vincenzo Vitelli
TBA
Physics 385 - Advanced Mathematical Methods
Instructor: Jeff Harvey
Recommended: Geometry, Topology and Physics
Author: Mikio Nakahara
Publisher: Taylor
ISBN: 978 07503 06065
Recommended: Mathematics for Physics
Author: Michael Stone & Paul Goldbart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978 05218 54030
Physics 386 - Advanced Methods of Data Analysis
Instructor: Jeff McMahon
TBA
Physics 445 – Quantum Field Theory III
Instructor: Marcela Carena
TBA
Physics 491– Biological Physics
Instructor: Arvind Murugan
No required text