Quantum Struggling with QM lectures? Need a helpful self-teaching book?

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For self-teaching quantum mechanics (QM), it's essential to find resources that align with your learning style, especially when struggling with lecture notes. Key topics include the foundational experimental facts, wave-particle duality, QM fundamentals, the simple harmonic oscillator, and angular momentum. Recommended books include Cohen-Tannoudji's works and "Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications" by Zettili, which is noted for its abundance of examples. Visiting a library to explore various QM texts can also help identify a suitable approach.
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I'm looking for help teaching myself QM. I am taking a a third year course in my degree in QM but I can't follow the lecturers notes/teaching style. The topics we will be covering are;

Introduction: experimental facts that led to the development of quantum theory
Waves and particles: the basic concepts of quantum mechanic
Fundamentals and formalism of quantum mechanics
The simple harmonic oscillator
Angular momentum in QM

If anybody could suggest a QM book that has plenty of examples and is helpful with the above topics I would be very grateful! (Thanks in advance)
 
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What you listed there is standard intro QM. Go to the library and look into the books there until you find a style that suits you.

I personally like Cohen-Tannoudji's books.
 
Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications by Zettili has a lot of worked out examples.
 
By looking around, it seems like Dr. Hassani's books are great for studying "mathematical methods for the physicist/engineer." One is for the beginner physicist [Mathematical Methods: For Students of Physics and Related Fields] and the other is [Mathematical Physics: A Modern Introduction to Its Foundations] for the advanced undergraduate / grad student. I'm a sophomore undergrad and I have taken up the standard calculus sequence (~3sems) and ODEs. I want to self study ahead in mathematics...

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