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Halliday Resnick Walker is the standard for Freshman physics, and I used Swokowski for calculus which I found good, but I have also heard good things about Stewart

Thank you all so much! I am now wading through these resources, which are helping to shed light on the why and background of what Sakurai is talking about in the first chapter.

Very cool, thanks!

Thanks!

Hello all, I am about a week into a quantum mechanics course in which the instructor is mostly going to follow along with Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics. However, my linear algebra is pretty rusty and I have never taken an actual course in linear algebra, I have just learned what I have...

Thanks a million! I always mix up how kets and bras correlate to normal vector notation. I worked it through being mindful of parentheses and I got a much more logical answer :biggrin:

Homework Statement Given basis |x>,|y>,|z> such that <x|x> = 2,<y|y> = 2,<z|z> = 3,<x|y> = i, <x|z> = i, and <y|z> = 2. Build an orthonormal basis|x'>,|y'>,|z'>. Each of the new basis vectors should be expressed in terms of the old ones multiplied by coefficients. Homework Equations |x'> =...

Hello, my name is Jimmy and I'm an undergraduate physics student in the US. I found physics forums a few years ago and have read many interesting threads here, and figured I should sign up and contribute to the discussion :oldsmile: