Re: List of best Physics books for the preparation of IAS exam?
Physics Vol I&II by David Haliday and Resnick (for basic concepts)
Any practice book for objective questions.
Any IIT/Engineering entrance type objective questions book in physics will do
Mechanics - D.S. Mathur, B.S. Agarwal
Waves and Oscillations - Brijlal & Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal
Optics - Brijlal& Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal, Ajoy & Ghatak
Thermal Physics - Singal, Agarwal & Prakash, B.S. Agarwal, Shah & Srivastava
Electricity & Magnetism: D.C. TAyal, B.S. Agarwal, Griffith
Any fundamental book on electrical engineering like B.L Thareja (Vol 1) or Vincent Del Tero
Modern Physics - A Beiser (Concepts of modern physics), S.L. Gupta, B.S. Agarwal, J.B. Rajan
Electronics - Milman & Halkias, S. Ramnam, Ryder or Bolstead, Malvina
Properties of Matter - B. Aggarwal
Atomic Physics - J. B. Rajan
Fundamental of Magnetism electricity - B.N. Basudeva
A Text Book of Suond - Khanna & Bedi
Nuclear Physics - D.C. Tayal
Introduction of Electrodynamics - Griffith
Advanced Level Physics - Nelkon & Parkar
University Physics - Zeemasky
Numerical Problems - B. Lal & Subrahmanyam
Quantum Mechnaics - A Ghatak
A Dictionary of Physics - Goldstein
Paper 1
Classical Mechnism -Gupta, Kumar & Sharma
- Takewale & Puranik
-H.Goldstein
Mechanics - Kleppner & Kolenkov
-D.S. Mathur
Wave/Spl.Relatively - D.S. Mathur/Kleppner&Kolenkov
Special Relativity-R.Resnic
-Gupta & Goyal
Optics-Ajay Ghatak
-B.S. Agarwal
Electrodyanamics - David Griffiths
EM Theory -Chopra&Agarwal/Satya Prakash
Thermal Physics - P.K Chakraborty
- Satya Prakash, Singhal & Agarawal
-Statistical Physics -B.B laud
Paper 2
Quantum Physics- Resnick & Eisberg
Concept of Mordern Physics - Arthut Bevser
Quantum Mechanics -Ghatak & Loknathan
-Chatwal & Anand/Satya Prakash
Atomic & Molecular Spectra -Rajkumar
Nuclear Physics -S.B Patel
Solid State Physics -Kittel
Electronics -Allon Mottershed
Objective Physics -H.C. Verma/TMH