Re: Recommended undergraduate quantum mechanics book?

["Rauber, Joel Phys" <RAUBERJ@mg.sdstate.edu>]

> > Since we are in the topic of references, could you also recommend an
> > undergraduate book on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics? I am also
> > interested with finding a book suitable for beginning graduate level.

> We use (big) Reif for the undergraduate course and have done so
> for three decades. I think it is an excellent, clear text, made
> even more so when on reading it I hear in my head Reif's refined
> Austrian accent, something my students probably can't do.

I think Reif is hard to beat, I liked it as a student, but I have never 
taught out of it.  Another book, much in the same statistical spirit of 
Reif, but less demanding than Reif is a red book by Stowe.  Stowe is well 
written, but the problems are not very challenging, many are the plug in 
variety, many of the more meaty ones come with hints that turn them into 
plug-ins.  When I've taught out of Stowe, I supplemented my problem sets 
with problems from Reif and from Kittel's book.

Joel