Review Materials for Upper Level Physics Courses

[Birkeland]

I'm looking for any recomendations for review materials for upper level courses, particularly QM and solid state. I graduated in 2008 will a degree in Physics education, and as a result have a decently strong theoritcal background, however as you might imagine some of the education classes did preclude some of the physics. Given that there are very few Masters of science education programs I convinced my school to pay for a Masters in Physics, however I am looking to brush up before I apply or take the GED.

I am currently reading through my old physics textbooks and reviewing calculus, diff eq, and linear. I am also going through my copies of Feynman's Lectures as a broad view review. Does anyone have any recomendations on other texts or resources that I could use?

Thanks

 

[NateD]

in advance for any suggestions.For quantum mechanics, I suggest looking into Griffiths Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Liboff Introductory Quantum Mechanics and Shankar Principles of Quantum Mechanics. All of these books are great resources to learn the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. For solid state, check out Kittel Introduction to Solid State Physics, Ashcroft and Mermin Solid State Physics and Charles Kittel's Solid State Physics. These books cover the basic principles of solid state physics and provide a good foundation for further learning.