NOTES ON H7C TEXTS:


RELATIVITY TEXTS (to supplement distributed handwritten notes):

Taylor and Wheeler, Spacetime Physics:       
       Good for spacetime, Lorentz transformations as spacetime 
       rotations, the boost parameter, and rocket problems.

Rohlf, Modern Physics from alpha to Z0 (H7C required), chapter 4:
       Fair for relativistic kinematics -- a Compton scattering 
       derivation is given, though it is not the most elegant.

Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism (H7B text), appendix A and chapter 9:
       Good for relativistic transformation of electric and magnetic
       fields.


OPTICS TEXTS:

Fowles, Introduction to Modern Optics (H7C required):  Terse.

Hecht, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Optics (H7C 
       recommended):  Students have found this to be a useful summary
       of formulae and a place to find simple practice problems.


OPTICS TEXTS THAT PREVIOUSLY HAVE BEEN USED IN H7C:

Pedrotti & Pedrotti, Introduction to Optics, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall)

Hecht, Optics, 3rd ed. (Addison Wesley)


MODERN PHYSICS TEXT:

Rohlf, Modern Physics from alpha to Z0 (H7C required)


MODERN PHYSICS TEXTS THAT PREVIOUSLY HAVE BEEN USED IN H7C:
       These are listed in descending (subjective) order of
       usefulness:

Blatt, Modern Physics (McGraw-Hill)

Beiser, Concepts of Modern Physics, 5th ed. (McGraw-Hill)

Ohanian, Modern Physics, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall)

Eisberg & Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids,
       Nuclei, and Particles, 2nd ed. (Wiley)

Serway, Modern Physics, 2nd ed. (Saunders)

Tipler, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Vol II, 3rd ed.
       (Worth)