opaqueice;143131 Wrote: > At a university. Any physics department offers a yearly course on QM; > it's an essential subject for physics majors. There are many many > texts - in my opinion the best pedagogically is Griffiths: > > http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-David-Griffiths/dp/0131118927/sr=1-2/qid=1160018727/ref=sr_1_2/104-4362522-8152754?ie=UTF8&s=books > > To understand the subject properly you need to know calculus, and some > prior knowledge of linear algebra helps a lot (although most of the > essential results are in an appendix of that book). Usually physics > majors take this course in their third or fourth year. > > As for books intended for a general audience, I can't recommend one - > not because there aren't any, but simply because I don't read popular > books on physics and so I don't know. Brian Greene's books are very > good, but they aren't really about QM (but may explain some aspects of > it).
Thanks. As a music prof. I certainly understand the need for background. Sounds like my trying to read that text would be like trying to write or analyze a fugue w/o the 2 years of theory courses needed to understand just the basics. It takes a while just to acquire and understand the vocabulary of music in order to verbalize about it. My brother has the math chair at a university. He is a topologist (Bonhoffer linear equivalents?) haven't the slightest idea what that means. OTOH he doesn't quite get set analysis or Shenkerian aalysis either, so I guess we are even :-) -- tomjtx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomjtx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7449 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
