IAS Papers : Suggested Books For Physics

By Charan on September 7th, 2009

* Physics Vol I&II by David Haliday and Resnick (for basic concepts)
* Any practice book for objective questions.
* Any IIT/Engineering entrance type objective questions book in physics will do
* Mechanics – D.S. Mathur, B.S. Agarwal
* Waves and Oscillations – Brijlal & Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal
* Optics – Brijlal& Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal, Ajoy & Ghatak
* Thermal Physics – Singal, Agarwal & Prakash, B.S. Agarwal, Shah & Srivastava
* Electricity & Magnetism: D.C. TAyal, B.S. Agarwal, Griffith
* Any fundamental book on electrical engineering like B.L Thareja (Vol 1) or Vincent Del Tero
* Modern Physics – A Beiser (Concepts of modern physics), S.L. Gupta, B.S. Agarwal, J.B. Rajan
* Electronics – Milman & Halkias, S. Ramnam, Ryder or Bolstead, Malvina
* Properties of Matter – B. Aggarwal
* Atomic Physics – J. B. Rajan
* Fundamental of Magnetism electricity – B.N. Basudeva
* A Text Book of Suond – Khanna & Bedi
* Nuclear Physics – D.C. Tayal
* Introduction of Electrodynamics – Griffith
* Advanced Level Physics – Nelkon & Parkar
* University Physics – Zeemasky
* Numerical Problems – B. Lal & Subrahmanyam
* Quantum Mechnaics – A Ghatak
* A Dictionary of Physics – Goldstein

Paper 1

* Classical Mechnism -Gupta, Kumar & Sharma
- Takewale & Puranik
-H.Goldstein
* Mechanics – Kleppner & Kolenkov
-D.S. Mathur
* Wave/Spl.Relatively – D.S. Mathur/Kleppner&Kolenkov
* Special Relativity-R.Resnic
-Gupta & Goyal
* Optics-Ajay Ghatak
-B.S. Agarwal
* Electrodyanamics – David Griffiths
* EM Theory -Chopra&Agarwal/Satya Prakash
* Thermal Physics – P.K Chakraborty
- Satya Prakash, Singhal & Agarawal
-Statistical Physics -B.B laud

Paper 2

* Quantum Physics- Resnick & Eisberg
* Concept of Mordern Physics – Arthut Bevser
* Quantum Mechanics -Ghatak & Loknathan
-Chatwal & Anand/Satya Prakash
* Atomic & Molecular Spectra -Rajkumar
* Nuclear Physics -S.B Patel
* Solid State Physics -Kittel
* Electronics -Allon Mottershed
* Objective Physics -H.C. Verma/TMH