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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
Classical mechanics
Feynman, Richard P. (2005).
The Feynman Lectures on Physics . Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley.
ISBN
978-0-8053-9065-0 .
Halliday, David ;
Resnick, Robert (1970).
Fundamentals of Physics . John Wiley & Sons. Chapters 1–21. Numerous subsequent editions.
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 .
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 .
Müller-Kirsten, Harald J.W. (2008). Classical Mechanics and Relativity . World Scientific.
ISBN
9789812832528 .
Taylor, John (2005). Classical Mechanics . University Science Books.
ISBN
189138922X .
Young, Hugh D.; Freedman, Roger A. (2019). University Physics with Modern Physics (15th ed.). Pearson.
ISBN
978-0135159552 .
Quantum mechanics
Eisberg, Robert; Resnick, Robert (1985).
Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles (2nd ed.). Wiley & Sons.
ISBN
978-0471873730 .
Feynman, Richard P. (2005).
The Feynman Lectures on Physics . Vol. 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 .
Binney, James; Skinner, David (2014).
The Physics of Quantum Mechanics (1st ed.). Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-968856-2 .
Advanced undergraduate and graduate
Front cover of the second edition of Herbert Goldstein's Classical Mechanics .
Classical mechanics
Abraham, R. ;
Marsden, J. E. (2008). Foundations of Mechanics: A Mathematical Exposition of Classical Mechanics with an Introduction to the Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems (2nd ed.). AMS Chelsea Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-8218-4438-0 .
Arnold, V. I. (1997),
Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics (2nd ed.), Springer-Verlag,
ISBN
0-387-96890-3
Fetter, A. L. ;
Walecka, J. D. (1980).
Theoretical mechanics of particles and continua . New York: McGraw-Hill.
ISBN
978-0-07-020658-8 .
OCLC
6110997 .
Goldstein, H. (1980).
Classical Mechanics (2 ed.). Addison-Wesley.
ISBN
0201029189 .
Knauf, A. (2018). Mathematical Physics: Classical Mechanics . Springer.
ISBN
9783662557723 .
Lanczos, C. (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 . Translated by Sykes, J. B.; Bell, J. S. (3rd ed.). Elsevier.
ISBN
0-7506-2896-0 .
Marsden, J. E. ;
Ratiu, T. S. (1999). Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry: A Basic Exposition of Classical Mechanical Systems (2nd ed.). Springer.
ISBN
978-1-4419-3143-6 .
Papastavridis, J. G. (2014). Analytical Mechanics: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Dynamics of Constrained Systems . World Scientific.
ISBN
978-981-4338-71-4 .
Sommerfeld, A. (1952).
Mechanics: lectures on theoretical physics . New York: Academic Press Inc.
ISBN
978-0-12-654670-5 .
OCLC
803152309 .
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 .
Quantum mechanics
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude ; Diu, Bernard; Laloë, Franck (1977). Quantum Mechanics . Wiley.
ISBN
978-0471164333 . Three volumes.
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).
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 . Translated by Robert T. Beyer. Princeton University Press.
ISBN
9781400889921 .
Both topics
Byron, Frederick W.;
Fuller, Robert W. (1992).
Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics (Revised ed.). Dover Publications.
ISBN
978-0486671642 .
Weinstock, Robert (1974). Calculus of Variations with Applications to Physics and Engineering . Dover Publications.
ISBN
978-0486630694 .
Thorne, Kip S. ;
Blandford, Roger D. (2017). Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics . Princeton University Press.
ISBN
978-0691159027 .
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