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Schaum's Easy Outline of Quantum Mechanics (Schaum's Easy Outlines)

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If found out that this book is basically just a quick adaptation from the full-sized Schaum's Quantum Mechanic book by the same authors. And for what it is, a pocket-sized book, it's pretty good. It can help you remember things that you forgot and it is fun reading with call-outs and bulleted points.

BUT, if you think you can learn anything about Quantum Mechanics from this book without either having a bigger, better book, or without first having some background in Quantum, forget it.

If you want a little sidekick to go along with the full-sized Quantum book by the same authors, then this little fellow is worth the money and enjoyable.

And by the way, I think that it IS possible to create a tiny book like this one that truly is a crash course in Quantum Mechanics, but for necessity of space, this book leaves out way too many steps in the sample problems for these to be useful to the noninitiated. Such a crash course book may be created someday, but this one isn't it.

That doesn't take away from the pleasure of this book though. This one is sort of the 'map' for the forest of Quantum. If you think of this book as sort of a super-table-of-contents, then you will really like it.

Also, this book has enough detail in it that it will at least help the non-physicists be somewhat conversant in the glory of Quantum Mechanics. After reading this book, you may not necessarily know how to solve a problem with Perturbation Theory, but you will at least understand it well enough to talk about it at a cocktail party.

Grabbed this book as a refresher after taking QM a year and a half ago and now being in grad school. Wish I'd had it while I was taking the class. It's a great reference and explains some of the more hazy notations and concepts well.

This book is excellent but needs to be updated with a chapter on newer concepts and stuff on :entanglement , Copenhagen interpretation ,local and non local,,hidden variables,Bell's theorem etc

robert alfano ,ccny