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Revision as of 18:08, 8 April 2019
These Physics books are recommended by Art of Problem Solving administrators and members of the <url>index.php AoPS-MathLinks Community</url>.
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Contents
Books by subject
Astronomy/Astrophysics
Chaos Theory
- Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
Introductory Textbooks
- Conceptual Physics by Paul Hewitt
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Paul A. Tipler and Gene Mosca
Olympiad Textbooks
- Physics by Halliday, Resnick, and Krane (not to be confused with [i]Fundamentals of Physics[/i] by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker)
- Introduction to Classical Mechanics by David Morin
- Electricity and Magnetism by Purcell and Morin
Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Particle Physics
- Dreams of a Final Theory by Weinberg
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene.
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene.
- Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall.
- General Relativity from A to B by Geroch
- Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler
- Quantum Mechanics in Simple Matrix Form by Jordan
- Modern Physics by Krane
Books of Problems
- Thinking Physics by Lewis Carroll Epstein
- Problems and Solutions in Introductory Mechanics by David Morin
- 200 Puzzling Physics Problems by Gnadig
- 300 Creative Physics Problems with Solutions by Holics
- Physics to a Degree by Thomas and Raine
- Thinking Like a Physicist by Thompson
General interest
- A Brief History of Time by Steven Hawking
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman, et al.
- The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose.
