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Summary: A great pedagogical text full with examples
Review: A complete introduction of QM full of explainations and examples. Even though it might seem verbose to some advanced readers, it is well suited for the introductory level. The only drawback might be the organization which often requires you to do a lot of page-flipping ie."refer to equation 13 in complement H and example 4 in section 2 of chapter 8".
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Summary: quantum mechanics by claude cohen-tannoudji, vols I and II
Review: After years of searching for a really good book on non-relativistic quantum mechanics, I found it in this book. The beginning student can easily understand it and it's comprehensiveness will appeal to the more advanced student. It's use of the Dirac notation makes for a clean and concise treatment. The book is FAR better than most other quantum mechanics books found in university libraries, in my opinion.
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Summary: A thorough and competent text
Review: Cohen-Tannoudji writes an excellent QM text for first-year graduate or advanced undergraduate students. The book is well organized, complete, and contains fundamental concepts and relations as well as some more interesting, advanced topics. It takes some time to get through, and not a book that you can read at the breakfast table, but the reward is well worth the effort. A good supplement would probably be Sakurai. I think it is better than Griffiths, if more didactic. I have used the book for a first-semester graduate QM course after a one-semester introductory course with Griffiths. It is a good reference book as well as a main text.
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Summary: A thorough and competent text
Review: Cohen-Tannoudji writes an excellent QM text for first-year graduate or advanced undergraduate students. The book is well organized, complete, and contains fundamental concepts and relations as well as some more interesting, advanced topics. It takes some time to get through, and not a book that you can read at the breakfast table, but the reward is well worth the effort. A good supplement would probably be Sakurai. I think it is better than Griffiths, if more didactic. I have used the book for a first-semester graduate QM course after a one-semester introductory course with Griffiths. It is a good reference book as well as a main text.
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Summary: This book is simply amazing!
Review: Complete, pedagogical, and beautiful. These volumes have it all! Now, they might seem disorganised at first, but once you read the "Introduction" and the "Directions for Use" page you will learn how to navigate the book. Don't be intimidated by the thickness of these two volumes; most of it is due to chapter complements, which are wholly optional. It is highly recommended that you have some previous experience with elementary quantum physics before hitting Cohen-Tannoudji. Eisber and Resnik or French and Taylor (MIT series) are both good starts.
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Summary: This book is simply amazing!
Review: Complete, pedagogical, and beautiful. These volumes have it all! Now, they might seem disorganised at first, but once you read the "Introduction" and the "Directions for Use" page you will learn how to navigate the book. Don't be intimidated by the thickness of these two volumes; most of it is due to chapter complements, which are wholly optional. It is highly recommended that you have some previous experience with elementary quantum physics before hitting Cohen-Tannoudji. Eisber and Resnik or French and Taylor (MIT series) are both good starts.
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Summary: a french book
Review: Hello, I do not agree with other reviews. Clearly, this two volume set reflects very much the teaching of physics in France, which is mostly brainfilling, but not much understanding while a student. Cohen-Tanoudjii, certainly a reference book on QM, is really only a highly technical text, and has been claimed in France to have nothing to do with QM. There exist by now more modern and more appropriate treatments on QM. In the very preface of the set, the authors apologize for not discussing the interesting aspects of QM (like measure theory), claiming that readers should first master the theory. I think that anyone teaching QM today, and **not** reduction of operators, or tensor operators will agree with me.
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Summary: Get another text
Review: I had to use this book in my graduate quantum class last fall. It is hard to read, has very few examples, and the problems at the end of the chapters seem to have nothing to do with the content of the chapter. I do not understand how this text can be intended for undergraduates without being overwhelming. Plus I don't think you can do many of the problems without reading the extra optional sections. It could have been a lot more descriptive and concise while explaining things better.
On the plus side, it has a decent index and the important equations are boxed so they are easy to spot while reviewing.
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Summary: More of a reference than a textbook
Review: I just finished a graduate level quantum mechanics course where Cohen-Tannoudji's "Quantum Mechanics" was the primary text. This work as both strengths and weaknesses. On the plus side, it is as extremely comprehensive and detailed treatment of non-relativistic quantum mechanics as can be found, and makes an outstanding reference work. On the down-side, it took me half of the semester to learn how to find things quickly within the text, and I never felt as if it really helped me learn quantum in the intuitive sense. While the mathematical formalism was there, the language CT used to describe these phenomena seemed lacking. Fortunately, my copy of Sakurai helped me more with these less formal descriptions, and made a welcome complement to Cohen-Tannoudji. While CT may be the most comprehensive text I have seen, I would not recommend it being the only text used for a class.
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Summary: More of a reference than a textbook
Review: I just finished a graduate level quantum mechanics course where Cohen-Tannoudji's "Quantum Mechanics" was the primary text. This work as both strengths and weaknesses. On the plus side, it is as extremely comprehensive and detailed treatment of non-relativistic quantum mechanics as can be found, and makes an outstanding reference work. On the down-side, it took me half of the semester to learn how to find things quickly within the text, and I never felt as if it really helped me learn quantum in the intuitive sense. While the mathematical formalism was there, the language CT used to describe these phenomena seemed lacking. Fortunately, my copy of Sakurai helped me more with these less formal descriptions, and made a welcome complement to Cohen-Tannoudji. While CT may be the most comprehensive text I have seen, I would not recommend it being the only text used for a class.
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