Physical
Systems 1998-99
with E.J. Zita
PLEASE BE ALERT FOR possible CHANGES before September 1998. For example, ISBN numbers are in (parentheses), but they may not be quite correct - we will use the NEWEST EDITION of each text, and get them in PAPERBACK whenever possible.
TBD means "to be decided"; ?? means "maybe"
| FALL texts will be used all year | new texts for WINTER | new texts for SPRING |
| Scientific English, by Robert A. Day, 1995 Oryx Press (0-89774-989-8) | Quarks, Cranks, and the Cosmos, by Jeremy Bernstein, 1993 Basic Books (0-465-01449-6) | ?? Infinite in All Directions, by Freeman Dyson |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1970 University of Chicago Press (0-226-45804-0) | Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? by Sandra Harding, 1991 Cornell University (0-8014-9746-9) | ?? From Quarks to the Cosmos, by Leon Lederman and David Schramm, 1995 Scientific American Library (0-7167-6012-6) |
| The Physics of Star Trek, by Lawrence Krauss, 1995 Basic Books (0-465-00559-4) | How Experiments End, by Peter Galison, 1987 University of Chicago Press (0226279154) | Bubbles, voids, and bumps in time, ed. James Cornell, 1989 Cambridge University Press (0 521 42673 1) |
| Stellar Interiors, by C.J. Hansen and S.D. Kawaler, 1994 Springer-Verlag (0-387-94138-X) | Modern Physics, TBD | articles on strings and D-branes |
| Universe, by Wm. J. Kaufmann III, 1994 W.H. Freeman (0-7167-2379-4) | Introduction to Electrodynamics, by David Griffiths, 1989 Prentice Hall (0-13-481367-1) | Advice to a Young Scientist, by Peter Medawar, 1979 Prentice Hall (0060130296) |
| Thermal Physics, by Charles Kittell and Herbert Kroemer, 1980 W.H. Freeman (0-7167-1088-9) | Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, by David Griffiths, 1995 Prentice Hall (0-13-124405-1) | Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters, by Vera Rubin, 1996 American Institute of Physics (1563962314) |
| Classical Mechanics, by Vernon Berger and Martin Olsson, McGraw-Hill (0-07-003723-X) | articles on Agential Realism, by Karen Barad | |
| Mathematical handbook of formulas and tables, by Murray Spiegel, 1968 McGraw-Hill (0-07-060224-7)) | Alice in Quantumland, by Robert Gilmore, 1995 Springer-Verlag (0-387-91495) | |
| Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations, by Stanley Grossman, 1986 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (0155647512) | Physics and Philosophy, by Werner Heisenberg, 1959 Allen and Unwin or Haper (004530016X) | |
| The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan, 1996 Random House (0-394-53512-X) | Numerical Methods, TBD |