Quantum Mechanics Non-Relativistic Theory, Third Edition: Volume 3 [Paperback]

L. D. Landau (Author), L. M. Lifshitz (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0750635398 | ISBN-13: 978-0750635394 | Publication Date: January 15, 1981 | Edition: 3

This edition has been completely revised to include some 20% of new material. Important recent developments such as the theory of Regge poles are now included. Many problems with solutions have been added to those already contained in the book.

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'...every page shows evidence of great mastery of the subject.'
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• Paperback: 689 pages
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 3 edition (January 15, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750635398
• ISBN-13: 978-0750635394
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fits in nicely, April 13, 2005

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Brandon E. Wolfe (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quantum Mechanics Non-Relativistic Theory, Third Edition: Volume 3 (Paperback)

How should one teach undergraduate QM? Do you skip straight to spin without the requisite backing in the Dirac equation, as in Sakurai? Do you stick with PDEs and the superposition principle, as in Griffiths? Do you take Bohm's approach and write reams of explanatory philosophical text? Or Liboff and lose the flavor altogether? There doesn't appear to be a single book approachable to undergrads that works for QM the same way Griffiths works for E&M.

Oh but there is. This book.

For example, Sakurai approaches perturbation theory with 'complementary projection operators'; the purpose seems to be to stay within his notation at the cost of clarity. Landau does all of perturbation theory in three pages. He covers a range of material as wide as Baym's lectures (your average QM book never mentions, say, molecules), does so in a timeless notation without a learning curve, and retains the clarity and 'physics-ness' characteristic of this series. And his 'problems' are publishable.

It is, unreservedly, the best undergrad QM text.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A work of art and a marvellous textbook, July 18, 1998

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henrique fleming - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quantum Mechanics Non-Relativistic Theory, Third Edition: Volume 3 (Paperback)

If you study on your own (and you should!), there is no better companion. Landau's (and Lifshitz') knack for developing simultaneously the mathematics and the physics of quantum mechanics reaches here unprecedent levels. Both the theory and the applications are masterfully developed. The chapters on angular momentum, with the definitive introduction to, and application of, spinors, the study of symmetry, including a very lucid introduction to group theory, the treatment of the Thomas-Fermi atomic model, of the Periodic Table, the incredible appendix on the so-called special functions... On retrospect I realize I have been reading this book since it first appeared in English, always learning, always delighted with it.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST BOOK ON QUANTUM MECHANICS, July 23, 1998

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Paulo ([e-mail]) (Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quantum Mechanics Non-Relativistic Theory, Third Edition: Volume 3 (Paperback)

This is the Volume 3 of the famous Course of Theoretical Physics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz. All serious students of theoretical physics must possess the ten volumes of this excellent Course, which cover in detail and rigour practically all the branches of theoretical physics. The Volume 3 treats the subject of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. It contains a large amount of subjects, is very detailed, rigorous, and contain topics not usually found in other textbooks, such as for example the theory of symmetry, the quantum mechanics of polyatomic molecules and topics relating to the nuclear structure. It still contains a mathematical appendice on special functions used in quantum mechanics, which makes the book practically self contained. No better textbook on quantum mechanics can be recommended to the physicists. Certainly the best book of all time on quantum mechanics!