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This page lists sources for further reading about Physics.

Webpages

• Nature Physics
• The Vega Science Trust, includes hours of Freeview Science Video including many Physicists such as Feynman, Rotblat and other Nobel Laureates
• Usenet Physics FAQ is a FAQ compiled by sci.physics and other physics newsgroups
• Physics.org is a web portal run by the Institute of Physics
• HyperPhysics is a heavily interlinked concept map spanning physics, from Georgia State University
• World of Physics is an online encyclopedic dictionary of physics
• The Skeptic's Guide to Physics
• PlanetPhysics includes online Physics
• Physicsweb.org
• Physics Central includes articles on astronomy, particle Physics and mathematics.
• Physics Video Tour
• Physics announced July 17, 2008 by the American Physical Society
• Faraz, H. (2006). "Understanding Physics" Retrieved 18 March 2009 from Understanding Physics, URL http://www.understandingphysics.org/ (HTML only)

Popular reading

• Feynman, Richard (1994). Character of Physical Law. Random House. ISBN 0-679-60127-9.

• Greene, Brian (2000). The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. Vintage. ISBN 0-375-70811-1.

• Hawking, Stephen (1988). A Brief History of Time. Bantam. ISBN 0-553-10953-7.

• Kaku, Michio (1995). Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension. Anchor. ISBN 0-385-47705-8.

• Leggett, Anthony (1988). The Problems of Physics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-289186-3.

• Kakalios, James (2005). The physics of superheroes. Gotham books. ISBN 1-592-40242-9.

• Penrose, Roger (2004). Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-45443-8.

• Rogers, Eric (1960). Physics for the Inquiring Mind: The Methods, Nature, and Philosophy of Physical Science. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08016-X.

• Walker, Jearl (1977). The Flying Circus of Physics. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-02984-X.

• Fontanella, John (2006). The Physics of Basketball. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88513-2.

Historical

• Byers, Nina and Williams, Gary (2006). Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82197-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Cropper, William H. (2004). Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517324-4.

• Gamow, George (1988). The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-25767-3.

• Heilbron, John L. (2005). The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517198-5.

• Weaver, Jefferson H. (editor) (1987). The World of Physics. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-49931-9. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help) A selection of 56 articles, written by physicists. Commentaries and notes by Lloyd Motz and Dale McAdoo.

Textbooks

Surveys

• Crowell, Benjamin (2001). Simple Nature.

• Feynman, Richard; Leighton, Robert; Sands, Matthew (1989). Feynman Lectures on Physics. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-51003-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Feynman, Richard. Exercises for Feynman Lectures Volumes 1-3. Caltech. ISBN 2-35648-789-1.

• Knight, Randall (2004). Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach. Benjamin Cummings. ISBN 0-8053-8685-8.

• Halliday, David; Resnick, Robert; Walker, Jearl. Fundamentals of Physics 8th ed. ISBN 978-0-471-75801-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Hewitt, Paul (2001). Conceptual Physics with Practicing Physics Workbook (9th ed.). Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-321-05202-1.

• Giancoli, Douglas (2005). Physics: Principles with Applications (6th ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-060620-0.

• Serway, Raymond A.; Jewett, John W. (2004). Physics for Scientists and Engineers (6th ed.). Brooks/Cole. ISBN 0-534-40842-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Tipler, Paul (2004). Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics, Oscillations and Waves, Thermodynamics (5th ed.). W. H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-0809-4.

• Tipler, Paul (2004). Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electricity, Magnetism, Light, and Elementary Modern Physics (5th ed.). W. H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-0810-8.

• Wilson, Jerry; Buffa, Anthony (2002). College Physics (5th ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-067644-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Schiller, Christoph (2007). Motion Mountain: The Free Physics Textbook.

• H. C. Verma (2005). Concepts of Physics. Bharti Bhavan. ISBN 81-7709-187-5.

Undergraduate level

Classical Mechanics

• Thornton, Stephen T.; Marion, Jerry B. (2003). Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems (5th ed.). Brooks Cole. ISBN 0-534-40896-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Electromagnetism

• Griffiths, David J. (1998). Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-805326-X.

• Purcell, Edward M. (1985). Electricity and Magnetism Berkeley Physics Course Volume 2 (2nd ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-004908-4.

• Wangsness, Roald K. (1986). Electromagnetic Fields (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-81186-6.

Quantum Mechanics

• Bohm, David (1989). Quantum Theory. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-65969-0.

• Eisberg, Robert; Resnick, Robert (1985). Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-87373-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Griffiths, David J. (2004). Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-805326-X.

• Liboff, Richard L. (2002). Introductory Quantum Mechanics. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-8053-8714-5.

• Shankar, R. (1994). Principles of Quantum Mechanics. Springer. ISBN 0-306-44790-8.

Optics

• Fowles, Grant R. (1989). Introduction to Modern Optics. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-65957-7.

• Hecht, Eugene (2001). Optics (4th ed.). Pearson Education. ISBN 0-8053-8566-5.

Relativity

• Bergmann, Peter G. (1976). Introduction to the Theory of Relativity. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-63282-2.

• Schutz, Bernard F. (1984). A First Course in General Relativity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-27703-5.

• Taylor, Edwin F.; Wheeler, John Archibald (1992). Spacetime Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity (2nd ed.). W.H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-2327-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Taylor, Edwin F.; Wheeler, John Archibald (2000). Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-38423-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Modern Physics

Concepts of Modern Physics, Arthur Beiser,,

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• Tipler, Paul; Llewellyn, Ralph (2002). Modern Physics (4th ed.). W. H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-4345-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Mathematical Physics

• Joos, Georg; Freeman, Ira M. (1987). Theoretical Physics. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-65227-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Menzel, Donald Howard (1961). Mathematical Physics. Dover Publishications. ISBN 0-486-60056-4.

Particle and Experimental Physics

• Griffiths, David J. (1987). Introduction to Elementary Particles. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-60386-4.

• Perkins, Donald H. (1999). Introduction to High Energy Physics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-62196-8.

• Povh, Bogdan (1995). Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to the Physical Concepts. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-59439-6.

• Taylor, John R. (1987). An Introduction to Error Analysis (2nd ed.). University Science Books. ISBN 0-935-70275-X.

Thermal and Statistical Physics

• Callen, Herbert B. (1985). Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-86256-8.

• Kroemer, Herbert; Kittel, Charles (1980). Thermal Physics (2nd ed.). W. H. Freeman Company. ISBN 0-716-71088-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Schroeder, Daniel V. (1999). An Introduction to Thermal Physics. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-38027-7.

Graduate level

• Landau, L. D.; Lifshitz, E. M. (1976). Course of Theoretical Physics. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0-7506-2896-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Morse, Philip; Feshbach, Herman (2005). Methods of Theoretical Physics. Feshbach Publishing. ISBN 0-9762021-2-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Arfken, George B.; Weber, Hans J. (2000). Mathematical Methods for Physicists (5th ed.). Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-059825-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Goldstein, Herbert (2002). Classical Mechanics. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-65702-3.

• Jackson, John D. (1998). Classical Electrodynamics (3rd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-30932-X.

• Landau, L. D.; Lifshitz, E. M. (1972). Mechanics and Electrodynamics, Vol. 1. Franklin Book Company, Inc. ISBN 0-08-016739-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Huang, Kerson (1990). Statistical Mechanics. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-81518-7.

• Merzbacher, Eugen (1998). Quantum Mechanics. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-88702-1.

• Peskin, Michael E.; Schroeder, Daniel V. (1994). Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. Perseus Publishing. ISBN 0-201-50397-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Thorne, Kip S.; Misner, Charles W.; Wheeler, John Archibald (1973). Gravitation. W.H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-0344-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Wald, Robert M. (1984). General Relativity. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-87033-2.

• Weinberg, Steven (1972). Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-92567-5.

• Sakurai, J. J. (1994). Modern Quantum Mechanics. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-53929-2.