Physics

Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (phusikos), "natural", and φύσις (phusis), "nature") is the science of the natural world in the broadest sense, dealing with matter and energy and the fundamental forces of nature that govern the interactions between particles; it was called natural philosophy until the late 19th century. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena spanning all length scales, from the sub-nuclear particles of which all ordinary matter is made (particle physics) to the material Universe as a whole (cosmology).

References

Popular Reading

• {{Book reference | Author=Feynman, Richard | Title=Character of Physical Law | Publisher=Random House | Year=1994 | ID=ISBN 0679601279}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Penrose, Roger | Title=Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe | Publisher=Knopf | Year=2004 | ID=ISBN 0-679-45443-8}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Walker, Jearl | Title=The Flying Circus of Physics | Publisher=Wiley | Year=1977 | ID=ISBN 047102984X}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Leggett, Anthony | Title=The Problems of Physics | Publisher=Oxford University Press | Year=1988 | ID=ISBN 0192891863}}

University Level Textbooks

Introductory

• {{Book reference | Author=Feynman, Richard | Title=Feynman Lectures on Physics | Publisher=Addison-Wesley | Year=1989 | ID=ISBN 0201510030}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Hewitt, Paul | Title=Conceptual Physics with Practicing Physics Workbook (9th ed.) | Publisher=Addison Wesley | Year=2001 | ID=ISBN 0321052021}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Giancoli, Douglas | Title=Physics: Principles with Applications (6th ed.) | Publisher=Prentice Hall | Year=2005 | ID=ISBN 0130606200}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Serway, Raymond A.; Jewett, John W. | Title=Physics for Scientists and Engineers (6th ed.) | Publisher=Brooks/Cole | Year=2004 | ID=ISBN 0534408427}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Tipler, Paul | Title=Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics, Oscillations and Waves, Thermodynamics (5th ed.) | Publisher=W. H. Freeman | Year=2004 | ID=ISBN 0716708094}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Tipler, Paul | Title=Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electricity, Magnetism, Light, and Elementary Modern Physics (5th ed.) | Publisher=W. H. Freeman | Year=2004 | ID=ISBN 0716708108}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Wilson, Jerry; Buffa, Anthony | Title=College Physics (5th ed.) | Publisher=Prentice Hall | Year=2002 | ID=ISBN 0130676446}}

Undergraduate

• {{Book reference | Author=Hecht, Eugene | Title=Optics (4th ed.) | Publisher=Pearson Education | Year=2001 | ID=ISBN 0805385665}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Griffiths, David J.|Title=Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd ed.)| Publisher=Prentice Hall |Year=1998 |ID=ISBN 013805326X}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Griffiths, David J. | Title=Introduction to Elementary Particles | Publisher=Wiley, John & Sons, Inc | Year=1987 | ID=ISBN 0471603864}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Griffiths, David J.|Title=Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd ed.) | Publisher=Prentice Hall |Year=2004 |ID=ISBN 013805326X}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Kroemer, Herbert; Kittle, Charles | Title=Thermal Physics (2nd ed.) | Publisher=W. H. Freeman Company | Year=1980 | ID=ISBN 0716710889}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Liboff, Richard L. | Title=Introductory Quantum Mechanics | Publisher=Addison-Wesley | Year=2002 | ID=ISBN 0805387145}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Perkins, Donald H. | Title=Introduction to High Energy Physics | Publisher=Cambridge University Press | Year=1999 | ID=ISBN 0521621968}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Schutz, Bernard F. | Title=A First Course in General Relativity | Publisher=Cambridge University Press | Year=1984 | ID=ISBN 0521277035}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Tipler, Paul; Llewellyn, Ralph | Title=Modern Physics (4th ed.) | Publisher=W. H. Freeman | Year=2002 | ID=ISBN 0716743450}}

Graduate

• {{Book reference | Author=Huang, Kerson | Title=Statistical Mechanics | Publisher=Wiley, John & Sons, Inc | Year=1990 | ID=ISBN 0471815187}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Jackson, John D. | Title=Classical Electrodynamics (3rd ed.) | Publisher=Wiley | Year=1998 | ID=ISBN 047130932X}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Landau, L. D.; Lifshitz, E. M. | Title=Mechanics and Electrodynamics, Vol. 1 | Publisher=Franklin Book Company, Inc | Year=1972 | ID=ISBN 008016739X}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Landau, L. D.; Lifshitz, E. M. | Title=Course of Theoretical Physics | Publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann | Year=1976 | ID=ISBN 0750628960}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Merzbacher, Eugen | Title=Quantum Mechanics | Publisher=Wiley, John & Sons, Inc | Year=1998 | ID=ISBN 0471887021}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Peskin, Michael E.; Schroeder, Daniel V. | Title=Introduction to Quantum Field Theory | Publisher=Perseus Publishing | Year=1994 | ID=ISBN 0201503972}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Wald, Robert M. | Title=General Relativity | Publisher=University of Chicago Press | Year=1984 | ID=ISBN 0226870332}}