Hey aspirant,
The following books are important for Physics optional for UPSC Exam-
You can refer to these books.
Hope this helps you .
If you have any doubts,you can ask in comments section
All the best.
UPSC Physics has approximately 17 topics to be covered and each topic has a better book writen by specific authors. Here we have mentioned 2 books per topic for you:
An Introduction to Mechanics by Kleppner and Kolenkow
Mechanics by D S Mathur
Theory of Relativity by Goyal and Gupta
Intriduction to Special Relativity by Robert Resnick
A Text Book of Optics by Brijlal and Subrahmanyam
Optics by Gahtak Ajoy
Electricity and Magnetism by Satya Prakash
Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J Griffiths
Quantum Physics by Resnick and Eisberg
Concepts of Modern Physics by Arthur Beiser
Quantum Mechanis by Mourdune Zettler
Quantum Mechanics by Lokanathan and Ajoy Ghatak
Atomic and Molecular Spectra by Rajkumar
Nuclear Physics by SB Patel
Solid State Physics by SO Pillai
Solid State Physics by Puri RK and VK Babbar
Electronics by BL Theraja
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