Product Description
Fun format makes this complex subject easy to grasp solutions to typical problems that are explained in full detail. It is perfect for self-study or class supplement. It is great for quick review or help prepare for the Physics qualifying exam. Learn quantum mechanics at warp speed! Now anyone can master the basics of quantum mechanics - without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In "Quantum Mechanics Demystified", physicist (and student-savvy author) David McMahon provides an effective and illuminating way to learn the essentials of quantum mechanics.With "Quantum Mechanics Demystified", you master the subject one step at a time - at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide is filled with solved examples throughout, and offers problems to try at the end of each chapter to pinpoint weaknesses. A final exam serves to reinforce concepts covered in the entire book. This fast and entertaining self-teaching course makes it much easier to - master serious quantum mechanics in easy-to-follow steps.This book cuts through the jargon and learn how to do quantum mechanics using worked examples. It helps reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses with questions at the end of each chapter and a comprehensive final exam. Learn about Schrodinger's equation, one dimensional scattering, Hilbert space, and the density operator. Find extensive explanations of spin and angular momentum, vector spaces, matrix mechanics, the harmonic oscillator, and the hydrogen atom. Perform better on qualifying or placement exams. Take a 'final exam' and grade it yourself! Clear enough for beginners, but challenging enough for those who already know something about advanced physics, "Quantum Mechanics Demystified" is the best self-teaching tool you can find!

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 28 reviews)

So Many Mistakes! by V. Finnemeyer

2 Stars
November 22, 2009
This book is so full of mistakes, it's hard to follow. The examples skip over a lot of the math, occasionally making it difficult to figure out how they got from point A to point B. This is made even worse by the fact that the answer they end up with might be full of typos. They do stupid stuff like using + instead of = or writing the wrong exponent on a variable, but they also skrew up important equations from time to time. I'm wasting a lot of time in my reading of this text trying to figure out when and where the book went wrong. I would definitely NOT recommend this text.

Better than my prof! But the book does have many typos... by K. Short (Los Angeles)

4 Stars
August 14, 2009
I got more out of this book than from two semesters of university-level quantum. The books does need some editing--there are quite a number of typos, especially at the beginning of the book--but it's still a great resource, and perfect for someone (like myself) looking for a quantum refresher.

Deplorably Inaccurate by Maps (Madison, WI USA)

1 Stars
June 27, 2009
This book does strike awe and amazement in the reader, but only because of the sheer volume of inaccuracies and discrepancies riddled throughout it. I think the author should apologize for making a quick buck, correct the problems and send a free book to all of us who actually wanted to learn physics by working through problem sets.

Nothing Demystified About This Book by Jen Wingard (Washington, DC)

3 Stars
June 09, 2009
I found without an intensive mathematics background Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd Edition) by David J. Griffiths to be a more productive read. The mathematics are more clearly laid out in DeMystified but concepts are not explained and there are few definitions to be found.

No motivation, countless typos, but a lot of good content regardless. by Peeter Joot (Markham, Ontario, Canada)

3 Stars
May 16, 2009
This book provides a quick and easy and thorough primer of all the QM notation that's scattered piecemeal throughout other sources. It is good as a supplementary text. While you won't see the big picture from this book, more advanced books are not necessarily any better. An example is Liboff's Intro to QM, which has loads of technical details, but presents new ideas without any attempt whatsoever to motivate them. For motivation of the ideas of QM look to Bohm's Quantum Theory text. Despite the typos in QMD, and perhaps because of them since they can force you to work the examples and problems in detail, I quite like this book. Compared to French's introductory QM text, this text has ironic advantage of covering a lot less of the physics. That is a strange thing to express, but there is some value to having something that one can learn some of the mechanical bits from in isolation. One can then go back to the other texts better armed against the mass of QM notation, and try to get a handle on the actual physics.

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