Re: Recommended undergraduate quantum mechanics book?

["Prof. John P. Ertel (wizard)" <jpe@nadn.navy.mil>]

One of my favorites is still the Fowles (or Fowles & Cassiday) book
_ANALYTICAL_MECHANICS_.  I've found the level of the material just about
right.  Moreover, I like the flow of the material logically from one topic
to the next.

While I don't agree, I should say that some have found it to be "pitched a
little high" for the junior level course.  Well they said the same thing
about Symon's old book.  That's what I used as an undergraduate and
thought it was great.

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Henry S. Greenside wrote:

> For my first time, I will be teaching Duke University's
> undergraduate quantum mechanics course this fall (taken
> mainly by juniors as their first formal exposure to qm)
> and would be interested if people on this list have a
> strong favorite to recommend for a textbook.
>
> My leading choice is currently David Griffith's book
> "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics". An older book
> (1968) that I would have liked to use but is out of
> print is David Saxon's "Elementary Quantum Mechanics".
>
> My ideal book would tell a good story (provide clear
> motivation for the flow of ideas), include experimental
> details (e.g., many QM books talk about measurement but
> almost no book talks about how measurements are
> specifically carried out, e.g., how does one measure
> experimentally the position or momentum of an electron,
> how does one actually do a double slit expt with
> electrons?), and have lots of problems. I also
> personally prefer books that are not big and
> encyclopedic (one reason I like Griffith).
>
> 	Thanks,
> 	
> 	Henry

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