Gasiorowicz S. Structure of Matter: Survey of Modern Physics

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., USA, 1979. – 525 p. – ISBN10: 0201025116The Structure of Matter grew from lecture notes prepared for a one-year course on modern physics, taken by university juniors majoring in one of the science or engineering fields. Aaim in designing the course was to achieve the following goals:
To expose the students to the new ideas ("new" to the students with their one-to two-year background in classical physics) of relativity, statistical physics, and quantum physics.
To keep the mathematical level of the technical treatment as low as possible so as to avoid putting a double burden on the student, who has to assimilate a large number of ideas in the course.
To stress the importance of quantitative aspects of physics, and to teach the students the importance of, and the possibility of, getting a roughly correct answer to simple questions without the full use of the machinery of quantum mechanics.
To discuss a large number of phenomena whose explanation lies in quantum physics, but whose manifestation looms very large in present research areas.Relativity
Statistical Physics
The Origins of the Quantum Theory
Elementary Quantum Mechanics
Advanced Topics in Quantum Mechanics
Appendixes
Units
Physical Constants
Table of the Elements