"[9] At a centenary celebration of Landau's career, it was observed that the Course had shown "unprecedented longevity.

Volume 1 covers classical mechanics without special or general relativity, in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms.

Volume 5 covers general statistical mechanics and thermodynamics and applications, including chemical reactions, phase transitions, and condensed matter physics.

Volume 8 covers electromagnetism in materials, and includes a variety of topics in condensed matter physics, a chapter on magnetohydrodynamics, and another on nonlinear optics.

Volume 9 builds on the original statistical physics book, with more applications to condensed matter theory.