| Level | Subject | Author | Title | Year | More About | Link |
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| Undergraduate | Classical Mechanics | J. E. Avron | Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics | 2015 | Notes tailored for a one-semester course in analytical mechanics, written in a clear and organized manner, and featuring a large number of examples and solved exercises. The applications and examples span a wide and fascinating range of topics, from ice skating to dark matter in galaxies. The discussion occasionally becomes slightly more mathematical than usual, but even the most abstract concepts are accompanied by illustrative visualizations. (Ofer Eyal) |
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| Undergraduate | Mechanics | Jorge Berger | Mechanics Lecture Notes | 2017 | A concise book on Newtonian mechanics, rich with diagrams and electronic links, designed to serve as a textbook or supplementary resource for most mechanics courses offered at universities. At times, the book adopts unconventional concepts and ideas. These deviations from standard practices are based on the author's extensive experience in teaching the course. The book includes numerous solved problems that demonstrate how to systematically solve mechanics problems. (Aharon Geru) | Mechanics_Leture_Notes_JB.zip |
| Undergraduate | Solid State | Ora Entin-Wohlman / Amnon Aharony | Solid State Physics | 2018 | The book includes detailed explanations as well as numerous exercises with solutions. It primarily focuses on periodic crystals, radiation scattering from crystals, vibrations, and the electronic properties of solids. (The Open University of Israel) | 20913_Book – Israel Physical Society.pdf |
| Graduate | Electrodynamics | J. E. Avron | Electrodynamics | 2024 | These are lecture notes in electrodynamics intended for students who have already acquired a bachelor's degree in physics or engineering. Accordingly, they assume the student has prior acquaintance with the theory of electricity and magnetism, classical mechanics, and mastery of the necessary basic mathematics: differential and integral calculus of several variables, vector analysis, linear algebra, and differential equations. This high starting point allows for an approach from a contemporary and modern perspective, as is indeed done in these notes. The subject of electrodynamics is presented here from its beginning as a relativistic theory, utilizing advanced tools such as differential forms, differential geometry, and the calculus of variations. In addition to a thorough presentation of 'pure' electrodynamics, as is customary in courses of this kind, the strong general base also allows for 'incursions' into related fields that significantly broaden the horizons of students in directions such as the connection with quantum theory, solid-state physics, and elementary particle theory through the analysis of concrete examples like the Dirac monopole, axions, the quantum Hall effect, and Chern-Simons theory. Furthermore, these notes can also serve as an introduction to the topic of classical field theory, which usually 'falls between the cracks' and does not receive its own course in most graduate physics programs. The notes are written in a clear and fluent language, and the effort to present the topics in a logically smooth manner, minimizing gaps and skips, and arguments of the type 'it is easy to prove' and 'it can be shown', is evident. The examples and applications presented throughout the notes are illuminating and thought-provoking, and together with the exercises, they will help the reader who is willing to invest in solving them, gain a deep understanding of the subject.(Yosef Verbin) |
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| Graduate | Quantum Physics | Yakov Bekenstein | Advanced Quantum Theory A | 2011 | Lectures on advanced topics in quantum theory (including dynamics, propagators, scattering matrices, magnetic systems, second quantization, and the relativistic Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations), with an emphasis on motivation and deep understanding, alongside precise and clear theoretical development. Each chapter includes problems designed to sharpen understanding and enhance practice. (Nadav Katz) | Bekenstein_Advanced_Quantum_Theory_A_2011.pdf |
| Graduate | Quantum Physics | Harry J. Lipkin | Quantum Mechanics | 1973 | This excellent book comprises six monographs: the Mossbauer effect, many body quantum mechanics, Kaon physics, scattering theory, Feynman diagrams and relativistic quantum mechanics. Each monograph is introduced by a summary and ends with a problem test. (D. W. Goodwin, Nature) An excellent presentation of advanced topics in quantum theory with an unconventional approach. (Marek Karliner) |
Harry_J_Lipkin-Quantum_mechanics_new_approaches_to_selected_topics.pdf |
| Graduate | Quantum Physics | J. E. Avron | Quantum information | 2023 | Notes that do not skip any proof and do not settle for hand-waving. At the same time, they include intuitive illustrations for every argument, the kind rarely found in most books. (Ofer Eyal) | Quantum_information_116031____Lecture_Notes.pdf |
| Graduate | Quantum Physics | Harry J. Lipkin | Lie Groups for Pedestrians | 1965 | Lie Group Theory for Physicists, based on analogies with the mathematics of the rotation group, familiar to those who have studied quantum mechanics. (Marek Karliner) | Harry_J_Lipkin-Lie_groups_for_pedestrians.pdf |
| Graduate | Statistical Mechanics | Arthur Hobson | Concepts in Statistical Mechanics | 1971 | Most textbooks in statistical mechanics start from some dogma, e.g., an isolated system is described by a microcanonical ensemble... This little book substitutes the dogma with a guiding principle: Bayesian inference or, as called in the book, Jaynes’ Principle. (Jorge Berger) | concepts in statistical mechanics.pdf |
