Physics Handbooks for Undergrads and Graduate Students

[FourEyedRaven]

Hello.

I'm looking for recomendations on what would be the two best handbooks of physics to buy, one for undergrads and another for graduate physics students. The purpose is for the handbooks to cover undergraduate and graduate theoretical physics, with details on the core subjects.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I have a BSc and an MSc in mathematics, which means I don't need much background math.

 

[fresh_42]

I have a BSc and an MSc in mathematics, which means I don't need much background math.

So you can probably name to handbooks which cover

The purpose is for the handbooks to cover undergraduate and graduate ...

... mathematics.

 

[FourEyedRaven]

I don't quite understand your comment.

Two such handbooks of mathematics would be, for undergraduates, Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers, by Korn & Korn. And for graduate studies would be Handbook of Mathematics, by Vialar.

I am asking what would be a similar recomendation for physics.

 

[George Jones]

I quite like "A unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics" by Lawrie, but I am not sure that you have the background for it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439884463/?tag=pfamazon01-20

For advanced grad-level non-quantum physics, there is "Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics" by (Nobel Laureate) Thorne and Blandford,

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691159025/?tag=pfamazon01-20