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Summary: Fresh approach to teaching quantum mechanics
Review: This book has an excellent treatment of quantum mechanics, especially density matrices. This book lacks both the confusion and perhaps depth of a bigger book. It is definately for chemists, and ideal for spectroscopists like Fayer. Physicists will definately find better books by physicists.I don't know if it's worth 72 for the amount covered. Fayer also made up his own notation for operators, which gets a little obnoxious.
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Summary: Very good, but short
Review: This book has an excellent treatment of quantum mechanics, especially density matrices. This book lacks both the confusion and perhaps depth of a bigger book. It is definately for chemists, and ideal for spectroscopists like Fayer. Physicists will definately find better books by physicists. I don't know if it's worth 72 for the amount covered. Fayer also made up his own notation for operators, which gets a little obnoxious.
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Summary: Fresh approach to teaching quantum mechanics
Review: This excellent graduate level textbook offers an overview of
the basic concepts of quantum mechanics with just the right amount of material and mix of fundamental theory and practical applications.It contains a more comprehensive introduction compared with other books that focus solely on the Schroedinger picture. Operator techniques and the Dirac notation are introduced in a clear way which should be widely accessible to Chemistry Graduate students.Its time dependent viewpoint is very intuitive. It covers material, such as an introduction to
density matrices, that is essential for reading the modern
literature.The book further includes topics such as excitons and
wavepackets which are not usually covered in graduate classes.
Instructors can get an entire power point set of lectures for the course from the author which makes it a pleasure to teach from this book.
I highly recommend this text.
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