- Paperback: 196 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (19 Oct 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226243818
- ISBN-13: 978-0226243818
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.3 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,472,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The lecture notes presented here in facsimile were prepared by Enrico Fermi for students taking his course at the University of Chicago in 1954. They provide examples of his ability to lecture simply and clearly on the most essential aspects of quantum mechanics. At the close of each lecture, Fermi created a single problem for his students. These challenging exercises were not included in Fermi's notes but were preserved in the notes of his students. This second edition includes a set of these assigned problems as compiled by one of his former students, Robert A. Schluter.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a delightful booklet. It contains the handwritten notes prepared by Fermi for his lectures at Chicago. They are marvellously organized, with all derivations clearly given, together with the motivations and examples. Sometimes you find a note like that: "Comment on the relative cosmological abundance of elements", and you can only imagine what the master would produce. The table of contents of the book is quite usual, and corresponds more or less to a book like Schiff, Merzbacher, etc, with more emphasis on applications. It is one of the best examples of the Fermi mastery of teaching techniques, using simple models, approximations, clever analogies. The book, as one should expect, contains the best derivation of the "Fermi Golden Rule", which is a formula for the rate of transitions in first-order, time-dependent perturbation theory. Fermi used to make miracles with this formula. The essential difference between this book and the usual intro! ductory ones is, of course, Fermi. This means that the problems are treated as they really appear in nature, with no idealizations to make things easier. Fermi could do that as no other physicist, as he was the last universalist: there was a time in which it was not unreasonable to say that he was the best theoretician and the best esperimentalist in activity.A similar set of notes about thermodynamics and statistical physics was offered also by the University of Chicago Press.I wonder if they are still available.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I don't know which book the previous reviewer was referring to. This is a physics book, by one of the leading physicists of this century.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A genius' version of quantum mechanics
26 July 1998
Format:Paperback
This is a delightful booklet. It contains the handwritten notes prepared by Fermi for his lectures at Chicago. They are marvellously organized, with all derivations clearly given, together with the motivations and examples. Sometimes you find a note like that: "Comment on the relative cosmological abundance of elements", and you can only imagine what the master would produce. The table of contents of the book is quite usual, and corresponds more or less to a book like Schiff, Merzbacher, etc, with more emphasis on applications. It is one of the best examples of the Fermi mastery of teaching techniques, using simple models, approximations, clever analogies. The book, as one should expect, contains the best derivation of the "Fermi Golden Rule", which is a formula for the rate of transitions in first-order, time-dependent perturbation theory. Fermi used to make miracles with this formula. The essential difference between this book and the usual intro! ductory ones is, of course, Fermi. This means that the problems are treated as they really appear in nature, with no idealizations to make things easier. Fermi could do that as no other physicist, as he was the last universalist: there was a time in which it was not unreasonable to say that he was the best theoretician and the best esperimentalist in activity.A similar set of notes about thermodynamics and statistical physics was offered also by the University of Chicago Press.I wonder if they are still available.
Such an Uniquely Excellent Text in Quantum Mechanics by a master
4 Nov 2011
Format:Paperback
Wonderful text. Cuts through mounds of verbiage of introductory books on Q/M to the essential core. Must be read as a synopsis and guide to the subject. This short book gets one rights into it. The books by Van Der Waarden on Sources of Q/Mechanics and the book by Schrodinger nicely supplement this. The finely sculpted book by Dirac Prin of Q/M is the eternally definitive description. Dirac's Lectures in Q/M tackles quantization which played such an important role in later developments. The mathematics of Quantum Mechanics is classical stuff of usual math syllabus in this area, mainly partial differential equations. It is only later developments that sought general properties of these in abstract algebraic terms.
A little known essential
14 Oct 2010
Format:Paperback
I am always surprised of how few physicists are aware of the existence of these handwritten notes. They are easy to read, concise, to the point, and make for both an excellent introduction to Quantum Mechanics and a text of reference. Fermi was notoriously a great teacher, and the fact that these notes are still handwritten and never edited actually add to them, making this a unique text. I still find myself going through it to check this formula or that derivation. When I have first learnt QM, three completely different books were dear to me: Dirac's, Landau's and this one by Fermi. Why would somebody learn the subject from anybody else?
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