Textbook Lists

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