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Summary: Insightful intro text for the able freshmen/sophomores
Review: This book was ahead of its time when it was published in 1978 and is still one of the better intro texts that stresses the basic principles and the experimental justifications. AP French is well-known for a whole series of rigorous intro physics texts he wrote for MIT students in the 1970s. The explanations and theoretical foundation in this book are very carefully laid out for the reader. Combined with insightful end-of-chapter problems, this is the preferred text for the able honors freshman/sophomore before he/she moves on to Griffiths's quantum mechanics book. When I was at Berkeley many years ago using Tipler's Modern Physics text for an intro to quantum mechanics and special relativity, it was the French/Taylor book that gave me the solid foundation I needed for the quantum mechanics part. Although co-author EF Taylor said on his personal website that this book is dated, I still find it - after all these years - a great starting point for the serious beginning physics undergraduate.
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Summary: An easy introduction to Quantum physics
Review: This is a typical college text book written in intoductory level. Its approac is classical and explains the concepts relatively slow with examples. The mathematical language used is not modern in a sense that does not use operator language with high symbolizm but rather more classical approach. For students that are used to apply more classical Diff.equations or Real anaylsis, it is much easier even though they implicitly do the same with or without operators. If I were to chose only one book to read, I would have to select the book written by Resnick but obviously the more you read the more view points you will have and of course you will have less time to develop your own. In my opinion this is better than Feynmann Vol.3.
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Summary: Best introductory book on the subject.
Review: This is one of the clearest and well thought out introductions on quantum physics that I've seen. It is beautifully written with abundant diagrams and examples. The chapter on photons and polarization is an excellent pedagogical approach to understanding state vectors. This will also come in handy later on in a more advanced course when trying to understand the motivations behind the postulates of quantum mechanics.
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Summary: Best introductory book on the subject.
Review: This is one of the clearest and well thought out introductions on quantum physics that I've seen. It is beautifully written with abundant diagrams and examples. The chapter on photons and polarization is an excellent pedagogical approach to understanding state vectors. This will also come in handy later on in a more advanced course when trying to understand the motivations behind the postulates of quantum mechanics.
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Summary: An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Review: This volume, part of the MIT Introductory Series, is appropriate for the advanced undergraduate in physics or the graduate student changing majors from engineering to physics, as a prerequisite to taking a graduate Quantum Mechanics course at the level of Cohen-Tanoudji. Presupposing a solid foundation in partial differential equations and boundary value problems as well as dynamics and electrodynamics, the authors develop quantum theory in a logical manner and in a very readable style. The text is full of examples that reinforce the material throughout. Moreover, there are abundant illustrations to aid in grasping trends in analyzing wave functions and probability densities. The artful introduction of the Dirac notation, formalism, quantum states and state vectors is accomplished using photons and polarization. Although not intended as a core graduate student level text for Quantum Mechanics, the volume integrates its scope with more advanced topics including the WKB method and perturbation theory. Included are problem sets at the end of each chapter that reinforce the presented materials. This text is an excellent bridge between basic undergraduate quantum mechanics and graduate quantum mechanics.
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