Solved Problems in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics (UNITEXT / Collana di Fisica e Astronomia)


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This work arises from our teaching this subject during many years. The vast majority of these exercises are the exams we gave to our students in this period. We carefully selected the subjects of the exercises to cover all the material which is most needed and which is treated in the most well known texts on these subjects. Each exercise is carefully solved in full details, explaining the theory behind the solution with particular care for those issues that, from our experience, are found most difficult from the average student. Indeed, several exercises are designed to throw light on � aspects of the theory that, for one reason or another, are usually neglected with the result to make the students feel uneasy about them. In fact most students get acquainted just with the more common manipulations, which are illustrated by many examples in textbooks. Our exercises never require extensive calculations but tend to be somewhat unusual � and force the solver to think about the problem starting from the principles, rather than by analogy with some previously solved exercise.
</p>Solved Problems in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics (UNITEXT / Collana di Fisica e Astronomia) Review
Many of the most used problems in Quantum Mechanics were created by Russian physicists in the early 1960's. Without true quantum computing available perhaps for nearly a decade to come, formulating problems, then explaining answers, is extremely difficult! Dover re-publishes many of the oldies but goodies, but in this field, the oldies are also the current favorites, and just as tough as they were 50 years ago.This book, and most like it, are pretty sketchy and need a LOT of outside help to "get." Exploring Quantum Mechanics: A Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for Students, Lecturers, and Researchers is the new monolith, or bible, of these types of problems, and is nearly 1,000 pages INCLUDING detailed explanations of how the problems are solved. Before 700, many of the little, cheaper books by Dover etc. were unintelligible.
Now that 700 is out, many others are within reach along with this one, including: Problems in Quantum Mechanics (Dover Books on Physics), Problems and Solutions on Quantum Mechanics: Major American Universities Ph. D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions, Problems in Quantum Mechanics (Dover Books on Physics), The Many-Body Problem in Quantum Mechanics (Dover Books on Physics), Problems in Quantum Mechanics: With Solutions, Problems and Solutions in Quantum Mechanics, and many others.
Taking the "cheap" Dovers (search problems in quantum mechanics on Amazon for more), you can add up to about 300 total problems with repetition, so you can see how the 700 text is truly amazing, and covers 1950 to today! By the time you buy 8 Dovers, you've spent what you would on the new 700 text, so depending on your need, I'd consider 700 if you really want one place to see them all, including the best solutions anywhere.
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