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- From: matt@physics3.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Trouble understanding bra-ket notation
- Date: 23 Jan 93 23:52:04
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:24:15 GMT
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- In article <DAVIS.93Jan24012415@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") writes:
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- > Feynman presents a nice discussion of Dirac Notation in Volume III of his
- > famous lectures. I do not recommend this for learning QM though. Also,
- > Baym's book introduces Dirac notation in a nice way but at a somewhat higher
- > level.
-
- Actually, I think that the best place to learn about Dirac notation is
- Dirac! Specifically: _The Principles of Quantum Mechanics_, 4th
- edition. This is a truly wonderful book: a succinct exposition of the
- theoretical and mathematical structure of quantum mechanics. It's a
- little bit abstract, so you probably shouldn't read it as your first
- QM book, but if you already understand a little bit about the
- experimental aspects of quantum mechanics, and the physical motivation
- for this type of theory, Dirac's book is the ideal place to see how
- things really fit together.
-
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- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
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