Physics:List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics

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This is a list of notable textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics arranged according to level and surnames of the authors in alphabetical order.

Undergraduate

Front cover of the second edition of A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics by John S. Townsend.

Classical mechanics

• Feynman, Richard P. (2005). The Feynman Lectures on Physics. 1 (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-8053-9065-0. 

• Hamill, Patrick (2014). A Student's Guide to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107617520. 
• Hand, Louis; Finch, Janet (1998). Analytical Mechanics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521573270. 
• Kibble, T. W.; Berkshire, F. H. (2004). Classical Mechanics. Imperial College Press. ISBN 1860944248. 
• Kleppner, Daniel; Kolenkow, Robert (1973). An Introduction to Mechanics. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-035048-5. https://archive.org/details/introductiontome00dani. 
• Knauf, Andreas (2018). Mathematical Physics: Classical Mechanics. Springer. ISBN 9783662557723. 
• Marion, Jerry; Thornton, Stephen (2003). Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems (5th ed.). Brooks Cole. ISBN 0534408966. 
• Morin, David (2005). Introduction to Classical Mechanics: With Problems and Solutions. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521876223. https://archive.org/details/introductiontocl00mori. 
• Müller-Kirsten, Harald J.W. (2008). Classical Mechanics and Relativity. World Scientific. ISBN 9789812832528. 
• Taylor, John (2005). Classical Mechanics. University Science Books. ISBN 189138922X. 

Quantum mechanics

• Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude; Diu, Bernard; Laloë, Franck (1977). Quantum Mechanics. Wiley. ISBN 978-0471164333.  Three volumes.
• Eisberg, Robert; Resnick, Robert (1985). Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles (2nd ed.). Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0471873730. https://archive.org/details/quantumphysicsof00eisb. 
• Feynman, Richard P. (2005). The Feynman Lectures on Physics. 3 (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-8053-9065-0. 
• French, A. P.; Taylor, Edwin (1978). An Introduction to Quantum Physics. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393091066. 
• Gasiorowicz, Stephen (2003). Quantum Physics (3rd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0471057000. 
• Griffiths, David (2005). Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd ed.). Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131118927. 
• McIntyre, David H. (2012). Quantum Mechanics: A Paradigms Approach (1st ed.). Pearson Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-76579-6. 
• Townsend, John (2012). A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics (2nd ed.). University Science Books. ISBN 978-1-891389-78-8. 
• Zettili, Nouredine (2009). Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications. Chichester, UK: Wiley. ISBN 978-0470026793. 

Advanced undergraduate and graduate

Front cover of the second edition of Herbert Goldstein's Classical Mechanics.

Classical mechanics

• Arnol'd, Vladimir (1978). Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0387968903. 
• Abraham, Ralph; Marsden, Jerrold (1978). Foundations of Mechanics. Addison-Wesley. 
• Goldstein, Herbert (1980). Classical Mechanics (2 ed.). Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201029189. 
• Lanczos, Cornelius (1986). The Variational Principles of Mechanics (4th ed.). Dover Publications. ISBN 0486650677. 
• Landau, L. D.; Lifshitz, E. M. (1976). Course of Theoretical Physics Volume 1 - Mechanics (3rd ed.). Elsevier. ISBN 0-7506-2896-0. 
• Whittaker, E. T. (1999). A treatise on the analytical dynamics of particles and rigid bodies : with an introduction to the problem of three bodies (4th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-35883-3. 
• Sommerfeld, Arnold (1952) (in en). Mechanics: lectures on theoretical physics. New York: Academic Press Inc. ISBN 978-0-12-654670-5. OCLC 803152309. https://www.worldcat.org/title/mechanics-lectures-on-theoretical-physics/oclc/803152309. 
• Fetter, Alexander L; Walecka, John Dirk (1980) (in en). Theoretical mechanics of particles and continua. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-020658-8. OCLC 6110997. https://www.worldcat.org/title/theoretical-mechanics-of-particles-and-continua/oclc/6110997. 

Quantum mechanics

• Dirac, Paul (1981). The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (4th ed.). Oxford Science Publications. ISBN 978-0198520115. 
• Feynman, Richard; Hibbs, Albert (2010). Styer, Daniel. ed. Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals. Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486477220. 
• Landau, L. D, and Lifshitz, E. M. Course of Theoretical Physics Volume 3 - Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory. Edited by Pitaevskiĭ L. P. Translated by J. B Sykes and J. S Bell, Third edition, revised and enlarged ed., Pergamon Press, 1977. ISBN:0080291406.
• Peres, Asher (1993). Physics:Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods. Kluwer. ISBN 0-7923-2549-4. OCLC 28854083. 
• Müller-Kirsten, Harald J.W. (2012). Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: Schrödinger Equation and Path Integral (2nd ed.). World Scientific. ISBN 9789814397735. 
• Sakurai, J. J.; Napolitano, Jim (2017). Modern Quantum Mechanics (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-42241-3. 
• Shankar, Ramamurti (2011). Principles of Quantum Mechanics (2nd ed.). Plenum Press. ISBN 978-0306447907. 
• von Neumann, John (2018). Nicholas A. Wheeler. ed. Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400889921. 

Further reading

• Byron, Frederick W.; Fuller, Robert W. (1992). Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics (Revised ed.). Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486671642. https://archive.org/details/mathematicsofcla00byro. 
• Thorne, Kip S.; Blandford, Roger D. (2017). Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691159027. 
• Weinstock, Robert (1974). Calculus of Variations with Applications to Physics and Engineering. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486630694. 

See also

• List of textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
• List of textbooks in electromagnetism
• List of books on general relativity

External links

• A Physics Book List. John Baez. Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside. 1993-1997.