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The document lists recommended textbooks and resources for becoming a theoretical physicist, organized by subject area. It provides over 50 references across topics like classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, optics, thermodynamics, solid state physics, special and general relativity, particle physics, field theory, string theory, and cosmology. The resources are meant to supplement lecture notes and provide fundamental knowledge in mathematics and the various fields of theoretical physics.

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How To Become A GOOD Theoretical Physicist

The document lists recommended textbooks and resources for becoming a theoretical physicist, organized by subject area. It provides over 50 references across topics like classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, optics, thermodynamics, solid state physics, special and general relativity, particle physics, field theory, string theory, and cosmology. The resources are meant to supplement lecture notes and provide fundamental knowledge in mathematics and the various fields of theoretical physics.

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7/19/2016 HowtobecomeaGOODTheoreticalPhysicist

Gerard'tHooft

LANGUAGES PRIMARYMATHEMATICS CLASSICALMECHANICS OPTICS

STATISTICALMECHANICS&THERMODYNAMICS ELECTRONICS

ELECTROMAGNETISM COMPUTATIONALPHYSICS

QUANTUMMECHANICS(NONRELATIVISTIC) ATOMS&MOLECULES

SOLIDSTATEPHYSICS NUCLEARPHYSICS PLASMAPHYSICS

ADVANCEDMATHEMATICS SPECIALRELATIVITY ADVANCEDQUANTUMMECHANICS

PHENOMENOLOGY GENERALRELATIVITY COSMOLOGY

ASTROPHYSICS&ASTRONOMY QUANTUMFIELDTHEORY

SUPERSYMMETRY&SUPERGRAVITY ASTROPARTICLEPHYSICS

SUPERSTRINGTHEORY TEXTS&OTHERRESOURCES RESPONSES&QUESTIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Howtobecomea
GOODTheoreticalPhysicist

Texts&OtherResources

Therearemanymore lecturenotestobefoundontheweb.

There are numerous good books on all sorts of topics in Theoretical Physics.
Hereareafew:

ClassicalMechanics:
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ClassicalMechanics3rded.Goldstein,Poole&Safko
Classicaldynamics:acontemporaryapproachJorgeV.Jos,EugeneJ.Saletan
ClassicalMechanicsSystemsofParticlesandHamiltonianDynamicsW.Greiner
MathematicalMethodsofClassicalMechanics,2nded.V.I.Arnold
Mechanics3rded.L.Landau,E.Lifshitz

StatisticalMechanics:

L.E.Reichl:AModernCourseinStatisticalPhysics,2nded.
R.K.Pathria:StatisticalMechanics
M.Plischke&B.Bergesen:EquilibriumStatisticalPhysics
L.D.Landau&E.M.Lifshitz:StatisticalPhysics,Part1
S.K.Ma,StatisticalMechanics,WorldScientific

QuantumMechanics:

QuantumMechanicsanIntroduction,4thed.W.Greiner
R.Shankar,PrinciplesofQuantumMechanics,Plenum
QuantumMechanicsSymmetries2nded.W.Greiner,B.Muller
QuantumMechanicsVol1&2CohenTannoudjiJ.J.Sakurai,AdvancedQuantum
Mechanics,AddisonWesley

Electrodynamics:

J.D.Jackson,ClassicalElectrodynamics,3rded.,Wiley&Sons.
ElectromagneticFieldsAndWaveslorrainandcorson
ClassicalElectrodynamicsW.Greiner
IntroductiontoElectrodynamicsD.Griffiths
QuantumElectrodynamics3rded.,W.Greiner,J.Reinhardt

Optics:

PrinciplesofOpticsM.Born,E.Wolf
PrinciplesOfNonlinearOpticsY.R.Shen

Thermodynamics:

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ThermodynamicsandanIntroductiontoThermostatistics2edH.Callen
ThermodynamicsandstatisticalmechanicsGreiner,Neise,Stoecker

SolidStatePhysics:

SolidStatePhysicsAshcroft,NeilW,Mermin,DavidN
IntroductiontoSolidStatePhysics7theditionKittel,Charles

SpecialRelativity:

ClassicalMechanicsPointParticlesAndRelativityW.Greiner
IntroductiontothetheoryofrelativityandtheprinciplesofmodernphysicsH.
Yilmaz

GeneralRelativity:

J.B.Hartle, Gravity,AnIntroductiontoEinsteinsGeneralRelativity, Addison


Wesley,2003.
T.P.Cheng,Relativity,GravitationandCosmology,ABasicIntroduction,Oxford
Univ.Press,2005.

ParticlePhysics:

IntroductiontoElementaryParticlesD.Griffiths
FundamentalsinNuclearPhysicsFromNuclearStructuretoCosmologyBasdevant,
Rich,Spiro

FieldTheory:

B.deWit&J.Smith,FieldTheoryinParticlePhysics,NorthHolland
C.Itzykson&J.B.Zuber,QuantumFieldTheory,McGrawHill.

StringTheory:

BartonZwiebach,AFirstCourseinStringTheory,CambridgeUniv.Press,2004
M.B.Green,J.H.Schwarz&E.Witten,Superstringtheory,Vols.I&II,Cambridge
Univ.Press

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Cosmology:

AnIntroductiontocosmology,3rdEdRoos
Relativity,thermodynamics,andcosmologyTolmanR.C.

General:

J.B.Marion&W.F.Hornyak,PrinciplesofPhysics,SaundersCollegePublishing,
1984,ISBN0030494818
H.MargenauandG.M.Murphy,TheMathematicsofPhysicsandChemistry,D.
v.NostrandComp.
R.Baker,LinearAlgebra,RintonPress

Findlistsofotherusefultextbookshere: Mathematics, Physics (mostofthese


are rather for amusement than being essential for understanding the World), or
alittlebitmoreseriously: Physics.

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