
Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics
Princeton physics professor and 2017 Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne *65 and Roger Blandford present a physics textbook for first-year graduate students. Modern Classical Physics (Princeton University Press) covers the six areas of classical physics that every graduate student should be familiar with but often are not: statistical physics, optics, elastodynamics, fluid mechanics, plasma physics, and special and general relativity.

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