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Summary: A learning tool that takes a step in the wrong direction.
Review: As a physics student using this book as a main text, I found it of little help as a learning aid. While Dr. Harris does do a wonderful job explaining the Schroedinger equation he does a very poor job at relaiting it to applications and explaining anything else. His writing style is inconsistant, going from conversational to lecturelike often within the same paragraph, and overly complex. Most explinations are overly analizied and the same material can be found using fewer words in other texts.The problems that go along with each section of this book are also very poor. It is very seldom that the problems from a section actually correspond to the section of the book they are said to. The lack of in text examples, and especially the lack of complete work on the few examples there are, as well as the lack solutions to answers also makes learning from this book very difficult.
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Summary: A learning tool that takes a step in the wrong direction.
Review: As a physics student using this book as a main text, I found it of little help as a learning aid. While Dr. Harris does do a wonderful job explaining the Schroedinger equation he does a very poor job at relaiting it to applications and explaining anything else. His writing style is inconsistant, going from conversational to lecturelike often within the same paragraph, and overly complex. Most explinations are overly analizied and the same material can be found using fewer words in other texts. The problems that go along with each section of this book are also very poor. It is very seldom that the problems from a section actually correspond to the section of the book they are said to. The lack of in text examples, and especially the lack of complete work on the few examples there are, as well as the lack solutions to answers also makes learning from this book very difficult.
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Summary: Harris --> really good
Review: Great book, Harris tels you evertything on a easy, clear way.
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Summary: Randy harris is my professor
Review: Hey randy harris is my professor at UC Davis and I had him for about 2 quarters so far. he is a great teacher but I agree with most people that his teaching style is conversational and lecturelike at many points. From a person that read his book and listen to him speak are almost one in the same. He often patronizes students because he understands that things are hard to understand in Nonclassical physics yet he lectures you on issues that may seem confusing to us but not him. Oh well that is randy harris for you (aka Chandler of DAvis)
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Summary: Skimpy on problems, no solutions, inconsistent tone
Review: I am currently using this book for a third semester physics class. The tone of the book is all over the place - sometimes conversational and sometimes very academic, which makes it hard to read. There are not enough sample problems in the text to demonstrate even a small selection of the questions at the end of each chapter. The answers to the odd questions are sometimes strangely wrong (i.e. for a problem about Anna and Bob, answers were given for Bob and Al. Who's Al? At least the numbers were right.) There are no answers to the even questions. There are no solutions in the book and a separate solutions manual is not available even for the odd questions. I gave this 2 stars instead of just 1 because some of the relativity examples are different than the typical explanations in other books, which gives students more than one explanation to learn from. But this is a skinny book that seems to cost quite a bit and lacks in several areas.
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Summary: Skimpy on problems, no solutions, inconsistent tone
Review: I am currently using this book for a third semester physics class. The tone of the book is all over the place - sometimes conversational and sometimes very academic, which makes it hard to read. There are not enough sample problems in the text to demonstrate even a small selection of the questions at the end of each chapter. The answers to the odd questions are sometimes strangely wrong (i.e. for a problem about Anna and Bob, answers were given for Bob and Al. Who's Al? At least the numbers were right.) There are no answers to the even questions. There are no solutions in the book and a separate solutions manual is not available even for the odd questions. I gave this 2 stars instead of just 1 because some of the relativity examples are different than the typical explanations in other books, which gives students more than one explanation to learn from. But this is a skinny book that seems to cost quite a bit and lacks in several areas.
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Summary: Great for learning Shrodinger equation
Review: This is one of the best physics text books that I have ever read. The best thing about this book is that it provides a great introduction to the schrodinger equation. Of course, there are other topics of interest in this book such as special relativity and nuclear physics. Chapters 2 through 7 provide a spectacular treatment of how to use the shrodinger equation to understand a variety of physical phenomena such as tunneling. Therefore, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to a solid introduction to the shrodinger equation.
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Summary: Great for learning Shrodinger equation
Review: This is one of the best physics text books that I have ever read. The best thing about this book is that it provides a great introduction to the schrodinger equation. Of course, there are other topics of interest in this book such as special relativity and nuclear physics. Chapters 2 through 7 provide a spectacular treatment of how to use the shrodinger equation to understand a variety of physical phenomena such as tunneling. Therefore, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to a solid introduction to the shrodinger equation.
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