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Modern Physics

Kenneth S. Krane

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Freshman university textbooks have what you need. Two of the most popular are: - University Physics by Young and Freedman - Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick, Walker - Modern Physics by Krane You might guess that real physics is not actually in freshman textbooks, and you are right. Modern physics requires rigorous mathematics. For a nonrigorous introduction/overview: - The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose If you want to actually learn almost all of physics at a high level: - Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau Note that Landau is extremely difficult. If you want to learn the math needed for modern physics (topology) in the context of physics, nonrigorously: - Geometry, Topology, and Physics by Nakahara