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Summary: Good Supplement
Review: At a first glance it looks very well, especially for the richness of exercises. However my students have already found 2 mistakes (not merely misprints):Ex. 4.28 is completely fool: a constant of motion (momentum of a free particle) seems to evolve in time because of forgetting an 'i' in the energy exponent! the answer d) of 5.15 is simply wrong. I am not able to give a rate to the book because I have not yet read it carefully; I put 3 stars because it is compulsory to fill the field. I am writing this note just to give a warning to students: never trust books blindly, even the best ones can be plagued by mistakes. I would have preferred to make these remarks directly to the authors but I do not know their e-mail address; my suggestion is to put a link to the authors.
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Summary: Re: Low on solved problems
Review: Did not contain enough exhaustive solutions to really help those who need to get over the "math hump". The text runs together and subject areas are not clearly seperated. It's like an abridged textbook. I expected more math help and less theory help. If your looking for a suplement to QM classes as an undergrad the Dover books are better at doing the math. The Schaum editors left their forte behind with this one.
Update 11/03 - Half-way through second quarter in undergrad QM...still no help from this text. It attempts to be another textbook when it should double the solved problems both basic and complex. Problems should be solved from several angles and at various levels of approach.
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Summary: Too Advanced
Review: I have taken an introductory course in quantum and am now studying intermediate quantum. This book has been of no help. This book is way too advanced and should be entitled, "Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics for Post-Doctorates of Physics."
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Summary: Too Advanced
Review: I have taken an introductory course in quantum and am now studying intermediate quantum. This book has been of no help. This book is way too advanced and should be entitled, "Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics for Post-Doctorates of Physics."
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Summary: Good Supplement
Review: The problems are advanced. Does not cover density matrix, time reversal symmetry, and wigner-eckart theorem. Prior familiarity with quantum mechanics is helpful. Detailed solutions are provided. The book accomplishes its purpose: provide detailed solutions to benchmark questions in quantum mechanics. The book is very helpful. I recommend with high regard.
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Summary: Schaum's Quantum Mechanics
Review: The rapidly rising Israeli science represented by Peleg et al. produced here an unusually concise, clear, and well organized presentation of a complicated subject with the benefits of worked out problems. They managed to do this with little sacrifice of detail, providing a mathematical background chapter and even a chapter on the foundations of quantum mechanics with six postulates and a discussion of the Schrodinger versus Heisenberg pictures. Dirac's bra and ket notation is explained and used frequently, and the difficult subject of spin receives its own chapter. The book keeps up with latest trends in mathematical and physics research by having three chapters on solution/approximation methods (one of the main recent trends in mathematics and physics is obtaining solutions and approximations for equations including those of Schrodinger, Einstein, Navier-Stokes). The complicated topic of scattering theory receives its own chapter, as do angular momentum and radiation by semiclassical treatment. For more detailed works, see my reviews of Cao, Carlip, Kursunoglu, etc., and also the book Quasi-classical Methods.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is a good repository of standard undergraduate QM textbook problems and worked solutions. Worth it's price as something to add to your arsenal of solution manuals to get you out of jams when you get stuck. If you are unclear on QM principles and need more than practice problem solving, you would be better off looking at a concise text like Griffiths undergrad-level QM book.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This is how I learn quantum. I use this book weekly, while my Shankar sits on the floor. If you are taking quantum at either the graduate or undergraduate level, do yourself a favor and buy this book. At least your homework will go easier.
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Summary: Re: Low on solved problems
Review: This refers to the 'Low on Solved Problems Review'
I cannot think of a more inaccurate thing to say, even if you didn't like the book. The whole book is *full* of solved problems, that's the whole point. My main critique is that there are too many errors but most of them aren't hard to spot. Anyone studying quantum should get this book and use the solved problems to help you understand how to solve those tricky quantum questions (just beware of errors and you should be ok).
Make sure you also pick up the 'Problems and Solutions on Quantum Mechanics' from Y-K Lim et al at the University of Science and Technology in China.
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