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You might like Hassani 1 better (or more readable) compared to Boas (Boas has more problems though). Though I'm not suggesting it as a preparation for your test next week (although you never know; you might pick it up from the library tomorrow and find out it answered many of your questions). It's one of the books that you shouldn't rush through (a whole summer working through it, solving 70-80% of the problems, would be a good idea).

Bra Ket notation shouldn't be too difficult if you've taken 'linear algebra' already (again Hassani has a few chapters on LA, but I used Leon when I took LA class). Schmidt ortho is covered in an LA class (again also is in Hassani).

Other stuff you mentioned seem like special topics in Diff. Eq, save for Complex Fourier which should be under 'complex analysis' I guess.

I hope this helps FWIW.

I actually do this for a hobby. They aren't exactly puns, but here are some links to a few of the physics shirts I've made - feel free to improve upon them/come up with wittier phrases. :)
Spherical Cow Shirt
Physics b/c math has limits

Brain on Physics

Be unique

Down to Earth

Not your average guy/gal

That should give you some ideas to start with. The great thing about physics is that it's such a broad area of study that the possibilities are limitless when it comes to ridiculous shirts.

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A great introductory read would be "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David Griffiths"

Great Author and great textbook. Pretty much most intro QM courses use this text.

Amazon Link

As for modern physics texts any of these should be fine but I have only glanced at them: Thornton and Rex, Krane, Bernstein, Fishbane, and Gasiorowicz

I read through Taylor and Wheeler's Spacetime Physics and it is really good if you want a lot of conceptual discussion of special relativity, not as much mathematics involved but honestly the math doesn't get too gnarly in SR anyways so conceptual might be the better approach to the topic. Unfortunately it only goes over SR, and not any of the other modern topics.

With a year of physics you can start to work through this book https://www.amazon.com/Computational-Physics-Mark-Newman/dp/1480145513/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499909731&sr=1-3&keywords=physics+python

I learned Python with it and I really enjoyed it. I tried the different free online courses that ran you through the basics but I lost interest. What kept me going was seeing immediately how Python can be used to solve various physics problems. I would say you can easily get through this book this summer before graduate school.

Edit: Forgot to mention that there are a few chapters online for free if you want to look through them before buying the book. With your background the problems will be really straight forward, but I would say that would help you focus more on learning Python, but still doing physics (which makes it more fun).

I struggled with it my freshman year, but I just spent a lot of time with it and it got easier. I felt that this process greatly improved my problem solving skills and set me on the path to getting into the top Phd programs. It literally made me permanently smarter. Another reason to stick with it is because your upper div and graduate level courses are going to be a bit harder.

Try to learn how to think systematically and also think out of the box. It takes practice. I found this book useful:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Science/dp/069111966X

There are a lot of places which will let you do joint honours type courses - for example Warwick offer a "Maths with Physics" course. If you don't know which one you want to do that can be a very good idea. Note also that in some places one course or the other will have everything you want - I'm at Cambridge, and for us there's actually more choice of theoretical physics modules on the maths course than on the actual physics course (at least in third and fourth year).

The one thing I will say is that the A-level approach to maths is a lot closer to how you'd treat maths in a physics or engineering course than to an actual mathematics course. I don't really have any suggestions for what the physics part of a physics course is like, but I'd recommend getting this book to get a bit of an idea what a maths degree is like.

You're welcome. The primary (and extremely daunting list, which isn't too bad when you get into it) list that I recommend to people is here: http://quantizd.blogspot.co.uk/p/so-you-want-to-become-physicist.html. I personally have this textbook, which I still use well into second year http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Principles-Physics-Patrick-Michael/dp/0719533821?ie=UTF8&keywords=essential%20principles%20of%20physics&qid=1464267686&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1. Have fun!

Take Physics Thermodynamics, it'll open your eyes. We use Schroeder 20 miles north of you. I had a Nuclear Energy Conversion course that was essentially our Thermo from our department and finally had the chance to see all of the theoretical physics applied to real world (well, 1970s reactors ;D) applications.

I'm up at SPSU finishing a Physics BS and just completed our Nuclear Engineering minor. I liked the similarities in curriculum because I had seen it before, but there were some ME/EE majors that weren't too thrilled with Physics Thermodynamics showing up in a Nuclear course.

Is your advanced lab course Modern, Electronics, or Adv Measurements?

By classical physics do you mean something similar to Intermediate Mechanics?

You should be able to relate Optics to Nuclear pretty well comparing it to what you've studied with neutrons passing through matter and moderators.

Sorry about the wall of text, I don't get to talk about both subjects much in either department.

I'm not at this level yet, but Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler is a well known for being a great and thorough book on the subject and you can get a used one for $28.

https://www.amazon.com/Gravitation-Charles-W-Misner/dp/0691177791#customerReviews

It is also known as MTW Black Book of Gravitation.

I wholeheartedly recommend [Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics by Martinus Veltman] (http://www.amazon.com/Facts-Mysteries-Elementary-Particle-Physics/dp/981238149X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406678496&sr=8-1&keywords=facts+and+mysteries+in+elementary+particle+physics). In all honesty I am only 60 pages in, but I am loving being along for the easy-to-comprehend ride.