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Science: Prescribed, Recommended & Open Textbooks: PHYS 4000 (Honours in Physics)

This LibGuide provides the titles of Prescribed and Recommended books for the schools in the Faculty of Science. Links are provided to the catalogue record of books as well as links to the online availability of books. Additional links are provided under

PHYS 4000 (Honours) - Prescribed & Recommended Textbooks

Strongly Recommended textbooks

A first course in general relativity / by Bernard Schutz - 2nd ed (2009)
Also see Strongly Recommended textbooks - previous editions

Classical Dynamics (1998) by Jorge V. José; Eugene J. Saletan
ISBN: 0521636361
Introduction to Solid State Physics 7th ed by Charles Kittel
Call Number: Biophy Library QC 176 KIP
ISBN: 9789971511807
Introductory nuclear physics / Kenneth S. Krane (1988)
ISBN: 9788126517855
Introductory Solid State Physics (1990) by H. P. Meyers
ISBN: 0850667615
Mathematical Physics (1968) by Eugene Butkov
ISBN: 0201007274
BioPhy Library
- also available in Education Library

Mathematical Physics (1968) by Eugene Butkov
Education Library
Quantum electrodynamics (1965) /by A.I. Akhiezer & V.B. Berestet︠s︡kiĭ
Quantum mechanics/by Messiah, Albert (1961-1962)
Volumes 1 & 2

Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems (1971) by John Dirk Walecka; Alexander L. Fetter; Bradford Banes (Editor); Marge Eakens (Editor)
ISBN: 0070206538
Quarks and Leptons (1984) by Francis Halzen; Alan D. Martin
ISBN: 9780471887416
BioPhy Library
- also available in Education Library

Quarks and leptons : an introductory course in modern particle physics (1984) /by Francis Halzen; Alan D. Martin
Education Library

Relativistic Quantum Mechanics Wave Equations - 3rd ed (2000) by Walter Greiner; D. A. Bromley (Foreword by)
ISBN: 3540674578
Statistical Mechanics - 2nd ed (1996) by R. K. Pathria; Paul D. Beale
ISBN: 0750624698
Print book. Also available as an eBook - see below link.
Also see Strongly Recommended textbooks - previous editions
Statistical Mechanics - 3rd ed (2011) - ELECTRONIC RESOURCE by R. K. Pathria; Paul D. Beale
ISBN: 9780123821898
eBook

Strongly Recommended textbooks - previous editions

A first course in general relativity / by Bernard Schutz - 1st ed (1985)

Introduction to Solid State Physics - 7th ed (1996) by Charles Kittel
ISBN: 0471111813
Introduction to Solid State Physics - 5th ed (1976) by Charles Kittel
ISBN: 0471490245
Introduction to Solid State Physics - 4th ed (1971) by Kittel
ISBN: 0471490210

Statistical Mechanics - 1st ed (1972) by R. K. Pathria
ISBN: 0080167470