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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 18 reviews)

Shaum's Outline In Quantum Mechanics an Excellent Book

The detailed calculations and discussions of methodology in this book far exceed those presented in the typical quantum mechanics book. This book, along with the book Quantum Mechanics Demystified (these two books are a superb complement to one another and should used together), should be required accompanyments to any quantum mechanics book. While almost all quantum mechanics books give an adequate discussion of the basic Schroedinger Equation and its applications, they are usually flops insofar as matrix mechanics are concerned, especially in the case of angular momentum. These books more than makes up for that. I personally am using this book and Quantum Mechanics Demystified to review a subject that I studied more than 40 years ago and find it to be very clearly written, making it more than adequate to overcome some very substantial holes that were not covered by my previous books. The authors should be well pleased with their work.
September 05, 2008

Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics

Basic information, and lots of problems (many worked out, others with answers). Makes for good practice and review.
January 20, 2007

Very useful, needs a rewrite ...

This book is useful. There is a variety of problems from fairly easy to difficult, but in general, the problems are similar (and often the same) as problems in graduate texts such as Merzbacher, Cohen, etc.. My complaint with this book is not necessarily the typos (although they should be fixed given the popularity of this book). My complaint is that that the authors sometimes skip steps in the solutions that are so critical, that is is nearly impossible to understand them. A useful solution can leave out mathematical drudgery, and calculations, but it shouldn't leave out critical steps that have been covered earlier in the book, because a solutions manual like this is not usually used as a textbook, it is used as a reference.

For instance I may want to try a practice problem on the Variational Method, and the problem leaves out steps that may have been covered in earlier chapters. So I spend hours playing with the problem until I find the solution. This is not useful, and not what a problems and solutions book should do. I understand that not every step can be included, but I would rather see more complete solutions, which might sacrifice the unsolved problems and the blank pages at the end of the book.

This book seems to have been typewritten from the authors' handwritten notes, because many of the typos are consistent with penmanship. But one of the authors should go over all of the solutions, flesh out the missing steps, and correct the errors. Without doing this, the physics student can't rely on this book as a trusted source, since they never know if the error they encounter is a typo or their own mistake.

Regardless, this is a useful book, and I have learned a lot from it.
November 19, 2006

Best value for money

This book is a complete introductory course that presents the basic concepts of Quantum Mechanics.

As a newcomer to this subject, I was puzzled by the separate definitions of the similar notions of inner product (denoted < , >), scalar product (denoted ( , )), scalar product (denoted < | >) and Dirac bracket (also denoted < | >). It would be most helpful if, in a future edition, the authors could define these four notions in one place, along with an explanation of the differences (if any) between them.

Apart from this minor annoyance, for which I deducted one star, this book succesfully tackles a most important and difficult subject. The writing and presentation are up to the usually high standards of Schaum's Outline series. There are plenty of exercises, both solved and unsolved. And it's excellent value for money. For the price, there's no serious competition.

A better mathematical treatment, based on linear vector spaces, may be found in "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" by Shankar.
August 24, 2006

Excelente libro de texto sobre Física Cuántica.

La mayoría de los textos de Física Cuántica que he leído, son inabordables en algunos momentos por la complejidad de la misma notación, falta de ejemplos directos de aplicación, y deficientes estructuraciones del contenido. El resultado es que finalmente te ves rodeado de una gran cantidad de libros de texto, para cubrir diferentes capítulos.

En cambio este libro, sobresale con holgura, cubriendo todas esas carencias.

* La estructura del libro es correcta.
* El número de ejemplos es muy amplio (como si no en un Schaum's).
* La notación es la que normalmente se utiliza en este campo.

¡ Qué más se puede pedir, en un libro de texto !.

Carlos Ortega
2006-01-30
January 30, 2006

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