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Condon snd Odishaw's Handbook of Physics is a brutally thick brick of a book, 8 1/2 by 11 inches, solid with mathematics, and consists of around a couple of thousand pages of bible paper crowded with tiny print containing the gist of physics as it was understood at the time it was written. It is a pity that it has not been revised and kept in print by later editors. It comprises everything that one might have wanted to know in the Seventies, and has not yet been surpassed in one volume. In the first part of the book is all of the math necessary for the rest of it. The following sections contain everything from general mechanics and quantum mech, through fluid mech and the like to specialties such as magnetic resonance, metallurgy, and rheology, with everything in between.

Be it noted, this is a reference work, and not a textbook like Feynman's Lectures. Understanding is assumed and the prose is turgid, but it is exhaustive. Everybody in the profession will find something useful within its pages, as will engineers and technologists. I came to Amazon.com trying to find a new copy, as mine is falling apart from over twenty years of continuous use.