Course literature - Theoretical physics
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Benny Lautrup, Physics of Continuous Matter, CRC Press; 2 edition
ISBN 978-1420077001
D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2013
ISBN-10: 0321856562, ISBN-13: 978-0321856562
- Classical mechanics: John R. Taylor, Classical Mechanics (ISBN 978-1-891389-22-1), University Science Books, 2005
- Special relativity: W. Rindler, Introduction to Special Relativity (ISBN 0-19-853952-5), Oxford Science Publications, 1991
Alan F. Chalmers, Vad är vetenskap egentligen? 3e upplagan
(English: What is this thing called science? 3rd edition)
Nya Doxa, 2003 (Open University Press, 1999)
K.F. Riley, M.P. Hobson and S.J. Bence, Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering
Cambridge, third edition, 2006.
N.J. Giordano and H. Nakanishi, Computational Physics, 2nd ed., Pearson Education.
B.A. Stickler and E. Schachinger, Basic Concepts in Computational Physics, 2nd ed. (Springer) - This book is available as e-book through Lund university libraries
Lecture notes
Additional reading includes:
W.H. Press, S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling and B.P. Flannery, Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press.
Physical Biology of the Cell by Phillips, Kondev, Therot and Garcia
B.F. Schutz, A first course in general relativity, second edition,
Cambridge University Press, 2009
ISBN 978-0-521-88705-2
Extra notes for advanced topics.
M. E. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, 1995 (ISBN 0201503972)
D. Gorbunov and V. Rubakov, Introduction to the Theory of the Early Universe: Hot Big Bang Theory, World Scientific 2011
ISBN 978-981-4322-24-9
Lecture notes and papers from the scientific literature
Lecture notes
H.F. Jones, Groups, Representations and Physics, Second edition, 0-7503-0504-5
- This book can be downloaded for free within Lund University
David Chandler, Introduction to modern statistical mechanics, Oxford University Press, 1987
ISBN 0195042778
Printed lecture notes.
Supplemental online literature: "Deep Learning Book"
Gordon Kane, Modern Elementary Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9781107165083, 2017
