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Andrew whitakers einstein, bohr and the quantum dilemma is fair and comprehensive, and includes lots of history. The physics of quantum mechanics free book at e books directory. Richard liboff is the author of introductory quantum mechanics 4th edition, published 2002 under isbn 9780805387148 and isbn 0805387145. In summary, the feynman lectures on physics 3 quantum mechanics is certainly a great book. Griffiths 1 is the ultimate selfstudy textbook for quantum mechanics.
This book is certainly not for the beginning physics student who wants an understanding of quantum mechanics, no no, this is the real deal. A traditional approach emphasizing connections with classical physics unitext for physics. Griffiths is incredibly easy to work through the text and be able to become proficient and elementary quantum mechanics or electricity and magnetism or particle physics, applying it to his other texts. Starting from blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, and waveparticle duality, greiner goes on to discuss the uncertainty relations, spin, and manybody systems. The early history of quantum mechanics, the wave function, the two slit experiment, wave mechanics, particle spin and the sterngerlach experiment, probability amplitudes, vector spaces in quantum mechanics, general mathematical description of a quantum system, state spaces of infinite dimension, operations on states, matrix. Mathematical recipes of the foundations for quantum mechanics.
David alberts quantum mechanics and experience is short and philosophically provocative, though ahistorical and a bit idiosyncratic in style. The 6 best quantum physics books on the planet dont. Local phase symmetry in quantum mechanics and the gauge symmetry. Richard lawrence liboff december 30, 1931 march 9, 2014 was an american physicist who authored five books and over 100 other publications in variety of fields, including plasma physics, planetary physics, cosmology, quantum chaos, and quantum billiards. In quantum mechanics we are interested in solutions to the schrodinger equation that are renormalizable. Furter, some important concepts are left as problems for the reader to solve. It is made freely available by its author and publisher. This is a list of notable textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics arranged according to level and surnames of the authors in alphabetical order.
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