Quantum Mechanics: Fitzpatrick's Online Grad Course vs. Feynman & Sakurai

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Fitzpatrick's online graduate course in quantum mechanics is compared to Feynman's lectures and Sakurai's textbook, highlighting significant differences in difficulty. Feynman's lectures are designed for first-year university students and aim to foster a love for physics, making them less challenging than advanced texts. In contrast, Sakurai's book is recognized as a difficult graduate-level resource. Fitzpatrick's course is positioned as being more aligned with Sakurai's complexity, suggesting that it is intended for a more advanced audience. Overall, the consensus is that Sakurai is considerably more challenging than Feynman's introductory approach.
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Just out of curiosity, how hard is Fitzpatrick's online Graduate version of quantum mechanics compared to the Feynman lectures and Sakurai's book?
 
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I've never heard of Fitzpatrick's course, but the gap between the Feynman lectures and Sakurai is very very significant.
 
Sakurai by a landslide I'd imagine. Feynman's lectures were intended to instill a love of physics to a group of first year university students. They're not like actual advanced lectures.
 
Yep. Feynman's lectures are good for introducing quantum mechanics, but it's presented for first-year undergrads. Sakurai is an advanced graduate text, and a difficult one at that. Fitzpatrick's is definitely closer to Sakurai.
 

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