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=== ''Electrodynamics'' ===
'''''Lectures on Theoretical Physics: Electrodynamics''''', published in 1964 by [[Academic Press]], is the third volume of its series and covers topics in [[electrodynamics]]. The book was translated from the German volume '''''Elektrodynamik''''' by [[Edward Ramberg]]. The book was reviewed by [[Rudolf Peierls]],<ref name=PeierlsMulti /> among several others.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Twersky|first=Vic|date=22 January 2009|title=Electrodynamics. Lectures on Theoretical Physics: Vol. III|url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.3061081|journal=Physics Today|language=en|volume=6|issue=12|pages=21|doi=10.1063/1.3061081|issn=0031-9228}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=April 1954|title=[Book Reviews]|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/173747a0|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=173|issue=4408|pages=747–747|doi=10.1038/173747a0|issn=1476-4687}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=F.|first=H. T.|date=1954|title=Review of Electrodynamics. Lectures on Theoretical Physics, Vol. III|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43415222|journal=Science Progress (1933- )|volume=42|issue=165|pages=133–134|issn=0036-8504}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Levy|first=Sheldon L.|date=1956|title=Review of Electrodynamics. Lectures on Theoretical Physics, Vol. III|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43634342|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=14|issue=3|pages=258–258|issn=0033-569X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bowden|first=T. J.|date=January 1953|title=Electrodynamics|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0016003253907480|journal=Journal of the Franklin Institute|language=en|volume=255|issue=1|pages=81–82|doi=10.1016/0016-0032(53)90748-0}}</ref>
 
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=== ''Optics'' ===
The series' fourth volume, '''''Lectures on Theoretical Physics: Optics''''', was published in 1964 by [[Academic Press]] after being translated from the German textbook '''''Optik''''' by [[Otto Laporte]] and [[Peter A. Moldauer]]. The book was reviewed by [[Karl Meissner]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Meissner|first=K. W.|author-link=Karl Meissner|date=October 1955|title=Optics. Lectures on Theoretical Physics, Vol. IV|url=http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1934064|journal=American Journal of Physics|language=en|volume=23|issue=7|pages=477–478|doi=10.1119/1.1934064|issn=0002-9505}}</ref> [[Rudolf Peierls]],<ref name=PeierlsFour>{{Cite journal|last=Peierls|first=R. E.|author-link=Rudolf Peierls|date=November 1955|title=[Book Reviews]|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/176850d0|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=176|issue=4488|pages=850–850|doi=10.1038/176850d0|issn=1476-4687}}</ref> and several others.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Domenicali|first=C.A.|date=March 1955|title=Optics. Lectures on theoretical physics, Vol. IV|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0016003255908553|journal=Journal of the Franklin Institute|language=en|volume=259|issue=3|pages=265|doi=10.1016/0016-0032(55)90855-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=March 1955|title=Optics: Vol. 5 of Lectures on Theoretical Physics|url=http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3061948|journal=Physics Today|language=en|volume=8|issue=3|pages=16–16|doi=10.1063/1.3061948|issn=0031-9228}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=14 January 2009|title=Optics: Vol. 5 of Lectures on Theoretical Physics|url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.3061948|journal=Physics Today|language=en|volume=8|issue=3|pages=16|doi=10.1063/1.3061948|issn=0031-9228}}</ref> Max Born wrote in 1952 that the book gives "a very elegant outline" of [[Tcherenkov radiation]].<ref>{{harvnb|Born|1952|pages=280}}</ref>
 
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=== ''Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics'' ===
'''''Lectures on Theoretical Physics: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics''''', the fifth volume of the series, was published by [[Academic Press]] in 1964. The book was translated from the German volume '''''Thermodynamik und Statistik''''' by [[Joseph Kestin]] and subsequently edited by [[Fritz Bopp]] and [[Josef Meixner]]. The book was reviewed by [[Rudolf Peierls]]<ref name=PeierlsFive>{{Cite journal|last=Peierls|first=R. E.|author-link=Rudolf Peierls|date=August 1956|title=[Book Reviews]|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/178288b0|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=178|issue=4528|pages=288–288|doi=10.1038/178288b0|issn=1476-4687}}</ref> and several others.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Emmons|first=H.|date=1957|title=Review of Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43634415|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=15|issue=1|pages=64–64|issn=0033-569X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ross|first=A. W.|date=1956|title=Review of Lectures on Theoretical Physics. vol. V, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1750843|journal=Science|volume=124|issue=3211|pages=84–84|issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=R.|first=G. S.|date=1957|title=Review of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Academic Books|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43416382|journal=Science Progress (1933- )|volume=45|issue=178|pages=348–349|issn=0036-8504}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nachtrieb|first=Norman H.|date=August 1956|title=Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Vol. V|url=http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3060071|journal=Physics Today|language=en|volume=9|issue=8|pages=39–40|doi=10.1063/1.3060071|issn=0031-9228}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Silver|first=R S|date=August 1956|title=Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics by Arnold Sommerfeld|url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9112/7/8/005|journal=Physics Bulletin|volume=7|issue=8|pages=222–223|doi=10.1088/0031-9112/7/8/005|issn=0031-9112}}</ref>
 
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=== ''Partial Differential Equations in Physics'' ===
'''''Lectures on Theoretical Physics: Partial Differential Equations in Physics''''' was published by [[Academic Press]] in 1949 as the sixth and final volume of its series. The book was translated from the German textbook '''''Partielle Differentialgleichungen in der Physik''''' by [[Ernest G. Straus]]. The book was reviewed by [[George F. Carrier]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Carrier|first=G. F.|author-link=George F. Carrier|date=1952|title=Review of Partial differential equations in physics|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43633950|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=10|issue=2|pages=193–193|issn=0033-569X}}</ref> [[Michael Golomb]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Golomb|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Golomb|date=1950|title=Review of Partial Differential Equations in Physics|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1676772|journal=Science|volume=111|issue=2886|pages=414–415|issn=0036-8075}}</ref> [[Rudolf Peierls]],<ref name=PeierlsMulti /> and [[Lincoln LaPaz]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=La Paz|first=Lincoln|author-link=Lincoln LaPaz|date=1950|title=Review of Partial Differential Equations in Physics|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3029562|journal=Mathematics Magazine|volume=24|issue=2|pages=99–102|doi=10.2307/3029562|issn=0025-570X}}</ref>
 
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