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You might be interested in Kip Thorne (of Gravitation fame) and Roger Blandford's book Modern Classical Physics, which is designed to cover the elements of non-quantum physics that are generally ignored in the first year PhD curriculum. Part headers: statistical physics; optics; elasticity; fluid dynamics; plasma physics; general relativity

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Fluid dynamics was the most awful course I ever took. I still get nightmares of me failing my graduation because of Navier-Stocks equation

Are you sure you learned the correct equation, Navier-Stokes?

I second the recommendation of this book -- it really is quite excellent and covers at an advanced level most of what is commonly left out of a modern physics curriculum (though it is quite imposing in its size/weight).

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