Books on Physics

Classical Physics Reference Books

  • Galileo Galilei – Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, 1632 — ISBN 0-375-75766-X
  • Sir Isaac Newton – Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Vol. 1: The Motion of the Bodies, 1687 — ISBN 0-520-00928-2
  • Sir Isaac Newton – Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Vol. 2: The System of the World, 1687 — ISBN 0-520-00929-0
  • Sir Isaac Newton – Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, 1704 — ISBN 0-486-60205-2
  • James Clerck Maxwell – A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (2 Vol.), 1873 — SBN 486-60636-8 & 486-60637-6
  • Daniel C. Mattis – The Theory of Magnetism Made Simple, 2006 — ISBN 981-238-671-8
  • Georg Joos – Theoretical Physics, 1958 — ISBN 0-486-65227-0
  • Richard Becker – Electromagnetic Fields and Interactions, 1964 — ISBN 0-486-64290-9
  • R.W. Ditchburn – Light, 1961 — ISBN 0-486-66667-0
  • Robert A. Granger – Fluid Mechanics, 1985 — ISBN 0-486-68356-7
  • Gregory H. Wannier – Statistical Physics, 1966 — ISBN 0-486-65401-X
  • Donald H. Menzel – Fundamental Formulas of Physics (2 Vol.), 1960 –ISBN 0-486-60596-5 & 0-486-60595-7
  • Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky – Classical Mechanics : The Theorical Minimum, 2013 — ISBN 978-0-141-97622-8

Gravitation and Relativity Reference Books

  • Misner, Thorne & Wheeler – Gravitation, 1970 — ISBN 0-7167-0344-3
  • Clifford M. Will – Theory and experiment in gravitational physics, 1981 — ISBN 0-521-43973-6
  • Peter G. Bergmann – The Riddle of Gravitation, 1968 — ISBN 0-486-27378-4
  • Robert M. Wald – General Relativity, 1984 — ISBN 0-226-87033-2
  • Roberto Torretti – Relativity and Geometry, 1983 — ISBN 0-486-69046-6
  • Albert Einstein – The Special and the General Theory of Relativity, 1916 — ISBN 0-517-88441-0
  • Hermann Bondi – Relativity and Common Sense, 1962 — ISBN 0-486-24021-5
  • Max Born – Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, 1962 — ISBN 0-486-60769-0
  • W. Pauli – Theory of Relativity, 1921 — ISBN 0-486-64152-X
  • David Bohm – The Special Theory of Relativity, 1965 — ISBN 0-415-14809-X
  • Richard C. Tolman – Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology, 1934 — ISBN 0-486-65383-8

Quantum Mechanics, QED, QCD, Particles Physics

  • Mituo Taketani & Masayuki Nagasaki – The Formation and Logic of Quantum Mechanics (3 Vol.), 2001 — ISBN 981-02-4601-3
  • Boris Ioffe Festschrift – Handbook of QCD (4 Vol.), 2002 — ISBN 981-02-4445-2 & 981-238-028-0
  • Ian Duck & E.C.G. Sudarshan – Pauli and the Spin-Statistics Theorem, 1997 — ISBN 981-02-3114-8
  • David Bohm – Quantum Theory, 1951 — ISBN 0-486-65969-0
  • Joseph Polchinsky – String Theory, Vol. 1: An Introduction to the Bosonic String — ISBN 0-521-63303-6
  • Joseph Polchinsky – String Theory, Vol. 2: Superstring Theory and Beyond — ISBN 0-521-63304-4
  • Vincent Icke – The Force of Symmetry, 1995 — ISBN 0-521-45591-X
  • Michio Kaku – Quantum Field Theory, 1993 — ISBN 0-19-509158-2
  • Michio Kaku – Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory, 1999 — ISBN 0-387-98589-1
  • Claude Itzykson & Jean-Bernard Zuber – Quantum Field Theory, 1980 — ISBN 0-07-066353-X
  • K.A. Milton – The Casimir Effect, 2001 — ISBN 981-02-4397-9
  • Martinus Veltman – Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics, 2003 — ISBN 981-238-149-X
  • James Cornell – Bubbles, voids and bumps in time: The New Cosmology, 1989 — ISBN 0-521-42673-1
  • Don Lincoln – Understanding the Universe from Quarks to the Cosmos, 2012 — ISBN 981-4374-45-8
  • Ernest M. Henley & Alejandro Garcia – Subatomic Physics, 2010 — ISBN 981-270-057-9
  • Amir D. Aczel – Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson, 2010 — ISBN 978-0-307-59182-1
  • Julio A. Gonzalo – Cosmological Implications of Heisenberg’s Principle, 2015 — ISBN 978-981-4675-37-6
  • John C. Taylor – Gauge Theories in the Twentieth Century, 2001 — ISBN 1-86094-282-2
  • Peter Graneau & Neal Graneau – In the Grip of the Distant Universe: The Science of Inertia, 2006 — ISBN 981-256-75402
  • Michael Edward McCulloch – Physics from the Edge: A New Cosmological Model for Inertia, 2014 — ISBN 978-9814596251
  • Leonard Susskind & Art Friedman – Quantum Mechanics : The Theorical Minimum, 2014 — ISBN 978-0-141-97781-2