Learn Quantum Mechanics Basics - Merzbatcher

[imran]

before reading merzbatcher for quantum mechanics,what is a good book to learn basics as i want to understand quantum mechanics from the basics.
kindly help me in this matter.

 

[dextercioby]

before reading merzbatcher for quantum mechanics,what is a good book to learn basics as i want to understand quantum mechanics from the basics.
kindly help me in this matter.

Good Question... I find Griffiths,David J.:"Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" the least challanging introductory text...

Good alternatives to Merzbacher's book are Sakurai and Landau & Lifschitz...

If u really want to know why QM is as it is with mathematics,i reccomend von Neumann's "Die Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik" (the English edition,1955) and a bit more,i think of it as "the bible",J.Prugoveçki:"Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space"...

Start with Griffiths...


Daniel.

 

[Dr Transport]

Start with Griffiths or McGervey. From there go on to Liboff or Cohen and Tannoudji which is not too bad (although I do not like th way it is laid out with short chapters and lots of appendicies).

Messiah is one of the best, Sakauri not too bad if you know quite a bit. Mertzbacher and Schiff are about the same level. von Neumann is extremely mathematical.

I would teach a graduate course out of Schiff or Messiah, undergraduate out of McGervey.

 

[imran]

thanks a lot for ur kind advice.iam indeed more thankful to u both!