Understanding Angular Momentum Addition: A Brief Overview

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Hi there.
I was just confused with this addition of angular momentum!
Any useful help or link about the mathematical consepts?
Thanks in advance.
Somy :smile:
 
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Clebsch-Gordan's theorem,huh? :-p On the internet i found decent treatments only in German courses.There are some courses on QM in English too,just google:"Clebsch-Gordan coefficients/theorem".The only complete and at the same time comprehendable & nonmathematized version you can find in the old book of Cohen-Tannoudji.A bit more rigurous is the description in Sakurai's "Modern Quantum Mechanics" and a rigurous treatment can be given in the context of group theory and representations.Wigner's book or any other book entitled "Group Theory in/and Quantum Mechanics" will be good enough.Personally I've been taught the intuitive approach by Cohen-Tannoudji.

Daniel.
 
Thanks dextercioby.
I'll take a look to sakurai. I don't have the cohen's.
 

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