There are a number of textbooks and lecture notes online. Generally speaking, a great place to start for lecture notes is the
arXiv preprint server. Other more general resources are:
Specific notable books include:
- The Basics of MRI (web-book)
by: Joseph P. Hornak
very well done and the prototype for what web-books should be
- The BaBar Physics Book [SLAC-R-504] (pdf, ps)
by: The BaBar Collaboration
a great intro to CP Violation, every HEP exp needs to have a "Physics Book" like this
- Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (pdf)
by: Sean Mauch
aka "Sean's Notes," simply legendary at Caltech for students taking AMa 95
- Hyperphysics (web-book)
by: C. Rod Nave
another fantastic web-book example
- Handbook of Mathematical Functions (web-book w/ scanned jpeg images)
by: Milton Abramowitz & Irene A. Stegun
a great reference now with electronic indexing!
- Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, 3rd Ed. (pdf) google
by: W.H. Press, S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, & B.P. Flannery
sample chapters available for free, full text free for developing countries
- Engineering Statistics Handbook (web-book)
by: NIST/SEMATECH
a fantastic and pratical web reference for statistical methods
- Mathematical Tools for Physics (pdf)
by: James Nearing
site includes animations
- Quantum Field Theory (pdf) amazon google
by: Mark Srednicki
"prepublication draft...contains a number of errors (mostly minor)" - Lectures on Atomic Physics (pdf) amazon google
by: Walter R. Johnson
prepublication draft?
- Lectures on Advanced Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed. (pdf, ps) amazon google
by: Freeman Dyson (LaTeX-ed by David Derbes)
legendary and classic notes that were the de-facto text on QED for several years
- Fields (pdf, ps)
by: W. Siegel
"first free comprehensive textbook on quantum (and classical) field theory" - Order of Magnitude Physics (pdf)
by: Peter Goldreich, Sanjoy Mahajan, & Sterl Phinney
unofficial book for the popular OOM class at Caltech, partly the PhD thesis of SM
- A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics, Vols. 1 & 2 (pdf)
by: David J. Raymond
a brilliant idea for freshman physics course: "attempt to develop all of physics in a modern context" - Motion Mountain (pdf)
by: Christoph Schiller
an incredible 1500 page(!) introduction to physics
- Essential Physics I (pdf)
Introduction to Groups, Invariants & Particles (pdf)
Age of Einstein (pdf)
by: Frank W.K. Firk
except AoE, written in the formal style of mathematical texts
- Electromagnetic Field Theory (pdf, ps, dvi)
by: Bo Thidé
website also includes problem book, "a textbook on the theory of electrodynamics, at roughly the same level as the well-known textbooks by Jackson and Panofsky & Phillips" - Lecture Notes on General Relativity (pdf) amazon google
by: Sean M. Carroll
notes that eventually became the book "Spacetime and Geometry"
I have
not included those websites that have illegal scanned copies of books. Writing a textbook takes alot of time & patience and it is just plain wrong to steal an author's hard work.
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