Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Modern Physics

I'm a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with minors in Physics and Mathematics. I've chosen this book to supplement a textbook on Modern Physics which I studied in the 1960s. I browsed the outline and it looks excellent. It contains certain recent topics not included in my earlier text. Regards, Donald W. Seaton

Unlike other reviewers, I found that this book hits all of the main points that you are likely to run across in an undergraduate course on Modern Physics. I particularly liked the short explanations on the various subtopics, the numerous and clear diagrams, as well as the helpful examples. The other reviewers are correct in that this book takes a different approach from most textbooks on Modern Physics, but I feel that this is most helpful to engineering students. This is because the modern physics textbooks I have examined tend to be abstract and, quite frankly, geared towards and - of course - written by physicists. Engineers need a more practical and visual problem-oriented viewpoint to understand the subject matter than is provided in such books. The content of this outline does tend to jump around a great deal, and you may need to search carefully for the subject matter you are needing help with, but most of it should be in this outline somewhere. The book does come up a little short on the quantum end of things, and if you need specific help with that subject I recommend the "Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics", which is also quite helpful. If you are a student of pure physics, you might not find this outline as helpful as the engineering students probably will.

The delivery was outstanding, and the quality of the book was excellent.

Much like the rest of the Outline series, this book is great. It covers pretty much all the important topics in pretty good detail. It starts off fairly gently but the problems (worked and otherwise) are good and challenging (for me at least). This book would be great companion to any undergraduate modern physics course.

This book is for those who for some reason find text books a little abstract and find themselves into trouble because of this. But with this books in your hands you can be sure that you'll have a second source where to look. It's well organized, and the sample exercises are really great and will help you all along. It starts with basic Galilean transformations, wave mechanics, relativity and a glimpse to quantum mechanics. If you're a student and feel the need for another source of information other than your text books, look no further, this outline is the best out there.