Required Course Materials

Textbook: Fundamentals of Physics, 8th edition, by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker.

Most of you will already have the Extended version.

If you do not already have this text, choose the Extended version (ISBN 978-0471758013). The 9th edition is now available; actually, any recent edition should be equally good for this course.

Textbook: Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd edition, by Thornton and Rex (ISBN 0-534-41781-7)

You will also use this book in Analytical Physics IV, assuming that you continue with the sequence.