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[nibot]

Well, I found a car to buy, and I offered to buy it.. but then the guy realized that the car was worth a lot more than his asking price, and backed out on the deal.. boo!

I got bored today and bought another quantum mechanics textbook: "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" by R. Shankar. It looks like a great book. (I guess it's a pretty standard textbook.) In the preface, the author writes "In writing [this book], I addressed students who are trying to learn the subject by themselves; that is to say, I made it as self-contained as possible." There are nice reviews of relevant math and of classical mechanics in the first chapters, too.

I also made a dumb little web page on the physics server here.

blaaah. Could someone please install a Naan & Curry here?

Comments

[forvrkate.livejournal.com]

Your CV (http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~tobin/cv.html) is impressive. Mine would be dumb.

I think I will make a webpage for the math server here.

[mr-bungee.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend the first few chapters of Shankar. His explanations tend to make a lot more logical sense than the fudging that most QM textbooks do. Too bad about the car!

[heike.livejournal.com]

I used Shankar last year in my class. We learned to love to hate him. Some people really liked the book, some really hated it. Unlike Griffiths who can be very brief, Shankar, while not quite a phonebook, is still pretty wordy.

[fireflies100k.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were an Eagle Scout.

What's NACHOS?

[spoonless.livejournal.com]

We used both Shankar and Sakurai for our classes. I think Shankar is a lot better for learning from, I love how he explains stuff. Shankar covers perturbation and scattering theory in a better way and uses more consistant notation. But Sakurai makes a better reference (partially because there's less explanation to sort through), and the problems are neatly grouped at the end of the chapter. Oh, and the angular momentum chapter in Sakurai is totally phat.

[once-a-banana.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, Shankar. The Great Red Book. With a hardcover so dry and brittle that it can't even stay flat. I don't have particularly fond memories of it, since that was the last physics class I ever took and I wasn't paying very much attention. But I always loved Griffiths.... I even still have it in my bookcase!