Physics after Engineering

Our PAE (Physics After Engineering) community members have contributed to building this nice handy list of books they've gone through. Many thanks to them all, and here is the list.  This probably is the only student-made list on the internet! Comprehensive reviews of almost all the standard physics books are present. If you are preparing for exams like JAM & JEST, I'd recommend you to check the following posts about exam preparation. There are plenty of posts on JAM preparation in our blog by our beloved community members, here are a few most popular ones: IIT-JAM and JEST preparation  - Rishab Kaushik (AIR - 1 in both JAM & JEST) ⭐ The Road Not Taken!! - Harshul Gupta (AIR - 22 JAM & 54 in JEST) IIT JAM Preparation -Vaibhav Sharma (AIR - 5) On preparing for IIT-JAM Physics  -Niket Shah(AIR - 6) NOTE: UG level : Books that start with basics, does not contain much of PG level stuff. Both UG-PG level : Books that start with basics, contains a good amou...

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; . . . I shall be telling this with a sigh " delight " Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Starting with the lines of my favourite poet— Robert Frost, with " slight " modifications. I had a tough choice to choose between GATE-Electronics and JAM-Physics, I chose the one "less traveled by" and that has made "all the difference". NOTE : Those who don't want to read how I ended up in love with Physics but are here take notes regarding my preparation can head-up straight to the heading : " The Journey to AIR-22 (IIT-JAM) & AIR-54 (JEST) " My Eternal Love for Physics It predates back to the summer-vacat...

Disclaimer: The initial post titles set by authors are later modified by the editor to be catchy and SEO friendly, the authors bear no responsibility in this regard.         M any people have asked me for preparation tips and strategies for JEST and JAM. I will be telling you about my preparation for these exams in the post. But before that, I would like to add a disclaimer that there is no universal exam cracking strategy and exam preparations vary highly from person to person. A particular technique or resource(lectures and books) may be helpful for some while it may not be helpful for others. That said, I'll be sharing some strategies I employed. Book Suggestions              Being an engineer, I had an advantage of JEE preparation i.e. I was good with JEE level concepts. So, if one feels that he/she is not comfortable with JEE level stuff. I will strongly suggest to brush up those things first. Sources are the obvious on...

Disclaimer: The initial post titles set by authors are later modified by the editor to be catchy and SEO friendly, the authors bear no responsibility in this regard. ⭐ Physics Book recommendations along with comprehensive reviews for JAM, JEST & GATE -  PAE Community  (An extensive collection of book reviews by our PAE members) ⭐ Physics online video lectures with comprehensive reviews for JAM, JEST & GATE -  PAE Community  (An extensive collection of video lecture reviews by our PAE members) ATTENTION!! : If you are here just for books, I'd recommend you go through the  updated post -  Physics Book for JAM, JEST & GATE   along with comprehensive reviews . This current post has the perspective of a single person, but the above post is written by a number of brilliant people from our community (which also include this author) with different perspectives. The editor highly recommends going through the above post. List of Books used for JA...

Here is a post on Books, lectures, and notes recommendations for JEST physics. [We recommend you also go through this excellent   post by Deepamla(AIR 3) on How she cracked JEST ] Electromagnetism : Griffiths Electrodynamics(excellent for problem solving). The book is more than enough for any physics entrance exam. Quantum mechanics : Again, Griffiths QM is a self-contained book. Book by Prof. Ajoy Ghatak is also nice Lectures : MIT OCW lectures by Prof. Allan Adams(highly recommend) and Prof. Barton Zweibach. Statistical physics : Lecture notes by Prof. David Tong. Reif statistical physics is a standard. book Lectures  by Prof. John Preskill are highly recommended. Classical mechanics:  Taylor's  CM is an excellent book for problem-solving. Landau Lifshitz mechanics is also recommended. Special Theory of Relativity : I found Rindler’s book on relativity very helpful. I highly recommend solving problems from this site: sites.google.com...

Hello people, I am not your average engineering graduate now getting into physics. I left engineering in the first year itself not wanting to torture myself any further and went for a undergraduate followed by a post-graduate degree in physics. These are the books I have found useful. The titles in red are under-grad level and those in blue are post-grad.(I haven't read many of them cover to cover but only relevant topics.)    Basic Physics(12th level): One of the biggest errors I have seen people do while trying to crack entrance exams is to jump directly to Electrodynamics and Quantum Physics without having their basics cleared. Please don't do this. Make sure there aren't any problems you cannot solve in books like Resnick, Halliday and Krane, H. C Verma, etc. If you are appearing for I-PhD entrance, JAM and other MSc entrances, these are the books that will contribute to a big chunk of the questions. Also, these form the base on which undergraduate physics is b...