Graduate studies requirements

* this list is taken from Purdue University requirements for Graduate Studies in Physics

Classical Mechanics
1. Fowles and Cassiday, Analytical Mechanics
2. Marion and Thornton, Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems
3. (my list) Barger and Olsson, Classical Mechanics: A Modern Perspective
4. (my list) Symon, Mechanics

Electromagnetic Theory
1. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics
2. Reitz, Milford, and Christy, Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory
3. Marion and Heald, Classical Electromagnetic Radiation

Quantum Physics
1. French and Taylor, An Introduction to Quantum Physics
2. Eisberg and Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles

Thermal Physics
1. Kittel and Kroemer, Thermal Physics
2. (my list) Reif, Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics

General Modern Physics
1. Weidner and Sells, Elementary Modern Physics
2. Krane, Modern Physics
3. Sandin, Essentials of Modern Physics
4. Serway and Moses, Modern Physics
5. Tipler and Llewellyn, Modern Physics
6. (my list) Beiser, Concepts of Modern Physics