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[QUOTE="zenmaster99, post: 5779275, member: 72125"] Hello, Mayed. My personal recommendation would be to solidify your understanding of calculus-based mechanics. I would go over a book like OpenStax University Physics [URL]http://cnx.org/contents/d50f6e32-0fda-46ef-a362-9bd36ca7c97d[/URL] for this. Linear Algebra would be a great thing to study alongside Special Relativity and QM. It is used [I]heavily[/I] in both fields. I don't have a recommendation for a book, but if you can get an old copy of Onan and Enderton, I liked that book. You can start the remainder of your list with Special Relativity. I haven't found a good book to teach out of, but I'm going to try David Morin's "Special Relativity For the Enthusiastic Beginner" next semester. I think it's fairly inexpensive. There is actually an [I]excellent[/I] book on both intro SR and QM called "Basic Concepts in Relativity and Early Quantum Theory" by Robert Resnick and David Halliday. I cannot recommend this book enough for starting concepts in both fields. After reading this, you'll be in a good position to tackle Morin's book above. Knowing electricity and magnetism would be a good thing to do while studying SR, although you can do all the relativistic mechanics without it. Again, a book like OpenStax University Physics should be just fine for this. Eventually, Griffith's Electrodynamics book is the current standard for University-level E&M. Quantum Mechanics somewhat uses some of the ideas from Special Relativity, but you will need a good grounding in not only differential equations, but [I]partial[/I] differential equations and the method of Separation of Variables. This is a difficult undertaking at this level. I would read up on Resnick and Halliday's book while you pursue the more involved mathematics. Nuclear Physics and Condensed Matter will depend on your knowledge of QM. So, although you [I]can[/I] get started with SR this summer, the rest of your list is better pushed back until you have some more foundation under you. But don't let that stop you from reading everything you can on line or in your local library. ZM [/QUOTE]
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