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42 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible.,
This review is from: Quantum Physics (Hardcover)
This is the worst introductory book on quantum mechanics that I have ever seen in my life. It is simply awful. This is the kind of book which professors seem to love and students will hate. Why? Because a professor has gone through the subject (presumably) several times and will look at the book and see all the goodies in it and think that it is great. Gasiorowicz does treat several interesting topics, mostly in later chapters. However, for the student, Gasiorowicz in my opinion completely fails to explain the subject of quantum mechanics even in the most basic way. He presents topic after topic, but unfortunatley is far to inept to tie anything together. There is no "glue" which is what the inexperienced learner needs to survive. He (Gasiorowicz) fails to let the reader know that the abstract concepts that he is presenting are anything but that. He simply blasts the reader away, assuming that he or she already knows basically what he's talking about. This brings me back to what I said before about professors liking this book. For someone with familiarity to the subject it is good, for those without it is painfully bad. Assigning this book for an introductory course in QM is like the high school teacher who forces his students to read Faulkner. William Faulkner is one of the greatest writers in recent American history, but one needs a strong foundation in read literature to read him, understand him, and finally find the beauty in his writing. Quantum Mechanics is like that. There are three steps to "understanding," being able to read it, grasp it, and finally understand and find beauty in it. Gasiorowicz tries to come in on the third step, ignoring any Pedagogy whatsoever. One cannot just step into quantum physics and immediately find beauty in it. It requires patience and good explanations and this books in my opinion, fails worse than any book that I have ever seen on any level. Like I said, for someone who understands the subject, well it's good. It's clear and concise. But for filling in the gaps for a lowly undergrad, it is simply horrid. This is certainly not a mf of a book.
19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst for Introduction, Good for review,
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This review is from: Quantum Physics, Third Edition (Hardcover)
I Have read both Liboff, Griffiths, mcGervey and a few others and I have still not found as bad a book for introducing quantum. Besides the number of typos, the author skips mathematical steps like crazy without giving the slightest reason. In addition he just sites principles which you will not know the slightest bit about from reading this book. Most students in my class appear to have turned to Liboff at this point in time and I do not know of a single admirer of Gasiorowicz in my class, AND the semester is almost over!!!
I suggest a combination Liboff for a rough idea of quantum and then Griffiths for an excellent and beautiful grasp of the concepts (introductory level of course.) P.S. - You just have to get over Griffiths placing the Schrodinger equation on the first page and then you're off.
24 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another viewpoint,
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This review is from: Quantum Physics (Hardcover)
I disagree with others that this is a poor text. I have noticed that this book tends to be used at the powerhouse universities in physics. It has been a text at Princeton, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, Illinois, Chicago, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington, Colorado,UCSD, and UCSB. This is a pretty respectable rouster of the top physics schools.I think this list contains 7 of the top 10 with the other 3 schools using either a harder book yet (Stanford = Cohen Tannoudji) or a book written at their school. (Cornell = Liboff, Liboff is at Cornell). Caltech uses Liboff too, but in a Freshman course. The junior course at Caltech, phys98, uses Merzbacher and Cohen-Tannoudji. I think the reason that it is used is that it is succinct and covers alot of ground. It is an undergraduate equivalent to the famous book by Schiff, a book that the best students will like because of its efficiency and elegance, but one that will be frustrating for students who are not well prepared, it is demanding, it requires you to be able to fill in some steps. I find the problem sets are quite good, and drag you through a lot of situations. I find that filling in the gaps in his calculations isnt overly difficult and is helpful. I really like all the applications in the second part of the book. It is true that Gasiorowicz expects you to be able to transfer information from examples that are not the same as the problems in the problem sets, there are no plug and chug problems of the type found in undergrad engineering books, Gasiorowicz assumes this is not needed. Think of this as training to wean you from such crutches, believe me, if you think Gasiorowicz is demanding, JD Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics, the near universal text for grad physics E&M, will crush you.
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