Natural Science Forum / Physics / Particle Physics / December 2004

Goldstein, Poole and Safko, "Classical Mechanics":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201657023/qid=1103218284/sr=2-1/ref=pd_k
a_b_2_1/104-8419334-5710321

Jackson, "Classical Electrodynamics":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047130932X/qid=1103218284/sr=2-3/ref=pd_k
a_b_2_3/104-8419334-5710321

I'm not sure what you mean by "Classsical Physics".  If
you mean introductory physics, than I like
Tipler "Physics", but Haliday, Resnick, and Walker
"Fundamentals of Physics" is also quite good.

If you mean classical mechanics, I'm quite fond of
Fowles and Cassiday, "Analytical Mechanics", which
is very well written.  Its weakness is that at least
the version I used did not include special relativity.

A previous poster mentioned Goldstein.  This is
a very good and rigorous book, but IMHO is best for
people who are pretty mathematically oriented.

-E