Are These Advanced Textbooks Worth Buying?

[ronaldoshaky]

Hello to all

I want to buy some textbooks to gain further understanding of the courses I am taking. Are these good books for giving advanced treatment of the subjects:

Classical Electrodynamics by JD. Jackson

Quantum Mechanics by A. Messiah

Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers by SJ. Farlow


Thank you.

 

[Fragment]

For Quantum Mechanics, I suggest you try Sakurai, if you're up to it. It definitely gives advanced treatment of the subject.

 

[jasonRF]

Hello to all

I want to buy some textbooks to gain further understanding of the courses I am taking. Are these good books for giving advanced treatment of the subjects:

Classical Electrodynamics by JD. Jackson

Yes, Jackson is a reasonable book for an "advanced" treatment of EM

Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers by SJ. Farlow

This is an excellent book and is very clearly written, but it is definitely not "advanced". In the US, undergrad physics/engineering majors should be comfortable reading it their 2nd or 3rd year, as it just requires basic multivariable calculus and elementary odes. This is probably the simplest book on PDEs that you will ever find.

jason

 

[ansgar]

for EM; try griffiths instead

QM, pick up more modern books, messiah is ancient - try ballentine

 

[Meir Achuz]

I recommend "Classical Electromagnetism" by Franklin.
It is on the level of Jackson, but easier to follow, especially on your own.

 

[Pinu7]

Messiah is too old, take Ballentine.

 

[physiker_192]

For QM, you can pick Zettili (paperback) , includes seriously many solved problems in detail for every chapter, published in 2009 and is affordable:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470026790/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Also the reviews for Zettili speak for themselves (5/5 though most are based on the 1st edition which had some typos !).

You can also preview the book here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=6j...rontcover&dq=zettili&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=falseUpdate: sorry, I read your topic quickly, advanced books in QM vary in contents and coverage, some advanced QM books are just QFT books, for the QM II course in my uni we use:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/3540850619/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Nonetheless, for the QM II class I still used Zettili's for the basic topics (it is short on relativistic QM).