Reddit reviews Concepts in Thermal Physics

I used Blundell and Blundell for a senior level statmech course and really enjoyed it.

For thermo/stat mech, the standard undergraduate texts are Schroeder (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Thermal-Physics-Daniel-Schroeder/dp/0201380277), and I guess Blundell & Blundell (http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Thermal-Physics-Stephen-Blundell/dp/0199562105).

For Quantum Physics the standard undergradate books are the quantum mechanics books by Shankar, Griffiths, and sometimes Messiah. I personally didn't like any of them, I learned from Cohen-Tannoudji but it is more difficult mathematically. For more advanced books you can look at Sakurai or Landau's book.

There is no real standard book that I'm aware of for Nuclear/subnuclear physics for undergrads (because it is really a graduate level book). But I think Griffiths has a book on particle physics if you like his quantum mechanics book. He does like to talk alot though just so you know.

Haha, one of the last pages of Blundell and Blundell has a derivation for the radiative forcing formula. We didn't do this chapter with Statphys 1 though. Would have solved my doubts 2 years earlier.

Very good book on thermal physics though, only thing it missed in my eyes was the 1D Ising model. Amazon