List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics
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 ISBN 978-0-8053-9065-0 Halliday, David ; Resnick, Robert (1970). Fundamentals of Physics 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 ISBN 1860944248 Kleppner, Daniel; Kolenkow, Robert (1973). An Introduction to Mechanics 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 ISBN 9780521876223 Müller-Kirsten, Harald J.W. (2024). Classical Mechanics and Relativity (2nd ed.). World Scientific. ISBN 9789811287114 Taylor, John (2005). Classical Mechanics . University Science Books. ISBN 978-981-12-8711-4 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 ISBN 978-0471873730 Feynman, Richard P. (2005). The Feynman Lectures on Physics 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 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 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 ISBN 0-387-96890-3 Fetter, A. L. ; Walecka, J. D. (1980). Theoretical mechanics of particles and continua ISBN 978-0-07-020658-8 OCLC 6110997 .Goldstein, H. (1980). Classical Mechanics 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 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 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 ISBN 0-521-35883-3
Quantum mechanics
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude ; Diu, Bernard; Laloë, Franck (1977). Quantum Mechanics ISBN 978-0471164333 Dirac, Paul (1981). The Principles of Quantum Mechanics 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 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 ISBN 978-1-108-42241-3 Shankar, Ramamurti (2011). Principles of Quantum Mechanics ISBN 978-0306447907 von Neumann, John (2018). Nicholas A. Wheeler (ed.). Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics ISBN 9781400889921
Both topics
Byron, Frederick W.; Fuller, Robert W. (1992). Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics 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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