NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Physics Reference List

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Classical Mechanics

  1. Gupta, Kumar & Sharma - Buy from Amazon
  2. Takewale & Puranik
  3. H. Goldstein - Buy from Amazon

Mechanics

  1. Kleppner & Kolenkov - Buy from Amazon
  2. D. S. Mathur - Buy from Amazon

Wave

  1. D. S. Mathur - Buy from Amazon
  2. Kleppner & Kolenkov

Special Relativity

  1. R. Resnic
  2. Gupta & Goyal

Optics

  1. Ajay Ghatak
  2. B S Agarwal

Electrodyanamics

  1. David Griffiths - Buy from Amazon

EM Theory

  1. Chopra & Agarwal
  2. Satya Prakash

Thermal Physics

  1. P. K Chakraborty
  2. Satya Prakash, Singhal & Agarawal

Quantum Physics

  1. Resnick & Eisberg - Buy from Amazon

Concept of Modern Physics

  1. Arthut Bevser

Quantum Mechanics

  1. Ghatak & Loknathan
  2. Chatwal & Anand - Buy from Amazon
  3. Satya Prakash

Atomic & Molecular Spectra

  1. Rajkumar
  2. Nuclear Physics
  3. S. B Patel - Buy from Amazon

Solid State Physics

  1. Kittel - Buy from Amazon
  2. Electronics
  3. Allon Mottershead - Buy from Amazon

Objective Physics

  1. H. C. Verma
  2. TMH

Statistical Physics

  1. B. B Laud

Others

  1. Physics Vol I & II by David Haliday and Resnick (for basic concepts)
  2. Mechanics - D. S. Mathur, B S Agarwal - Buy from Amazon
  3. Waves and Oscillations - Brijlal & Subramanyam, B S Agarwal
  4. Optics - Brijlal& Subramanyam, B S Agarwal, Ajoy & Ghatak
  5. Thermal Physics - Singal, Agarwal & Prakash, B S Agarwal, Shah & Srivastava
  6. Electricity & Magnetism: D C TAyal, B S Agarwal, Griffith - Buy from Amazon
  7. Any fundamental book on electrical engineering like B. L Thareja (Vol 1) or Vincent Del Tero - Buy from Amazon
  8. Modern Physics - A Beiser (Concepts of modern physics) , S. L. Gupta, B S Agarwal, J B Rajan - Buy from Amazon
  9. Electronics - Milman & Halkias, S. Ramnam, Ryder or Bolstead, Malvina - Buy from Amazon
  10. Properties of Matter - B. Aggarwal
  11. Atomic Physics - J B Rajan
  12. Fundamental of Magnetism electricity - B. N. Basudeva
  13. A Text Book of Sound - Khanna & Bedi
  14. Nuclear Physics - D C Tayal - Buy from Amazon
  15. Introduction of Electrodynamics - Griffith - Buy from Amazon
  16. Advanced Level Physics - Nelkon & Parkar - Buy from Amazon
  17. University Physics - Zeemasky
  18. Numerical Problems - B. Lal & Subrahmanyam
  19. Quantum Mechanics - A Ghatak - Buy from Amazon
  20. A Dictionary of Physics - Goldstein - Buy from Amazon