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'...every page shows evidence of great mastery of the subject.' Trans. Faraday Society 'this book is destined to play a major part in the future education of theoretical physicists.' Proceedings of the Physical Society
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This edition has been completely revised to include some 20 per cent of new material. Important recent developments such as the theory of Regge poles are now included in this edition. Many problems with solutions have been added to those already contained in the book.
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WHEN we attempt to apply classical mechanics and electrodynamics to explain atomic phenomena, they lead to results which are in obvious conflict with experiment. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If you study on your own (and you should!), there is no better companion. Landau's (and Lifshitz') knack for developing simultaneously the mathematics and the physics of quantum mechanics reaches here unprecedent levels. Both the theory and the applications are masterfully developed. The chapters on angular momentum, with the definitive introduction to, and application of, spinors, the study of symmetry, including a very lucid introduction to group theory, the treatment of the Thomas-Fermi atomic model, of the Periodic Table, the incredible appendix on the so-called special functions... On retrospect I realize I have been reading this book since it first appeared in English, always learning, always delighted with it.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is the Volume 3 of the famous Course of Theoretical Physics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz. All serious students of theoretical physics must possess the ten volumes of this excellent Course, which cover in detail and rigour practically all the branches of theoretical physics. The Volume 3 treats the subject of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. It contains a large amount of subjects, is very detailed, rigorous, and contain topics not usually found in other textbooks, such as for example the theory of symmetry, the quantum mechanics of polyatomic molecules and topics relating to the nuclear structure. It still contains a mathematical appendice on special functions used in quantum mechanics, which makes the book practically self contained. No better textbook on quantum mechanics can be recommended to the physicists. Certainly the best book of all time on quantum mechanics!
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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The print quality of the book is very poor. The last time I have seen this bad a print quality was in a huge computer manual in the early 90's. Parts of some letters are missing. This is particularly bad in the small printed, worked examples. So bad in fact that some of them are unreadable.
Example: page 145, equations (1) and (2) in the solution to the problem are partly unreadable.
This is not the only place where an expression is partly unreadable or barely readable.
I had ordered the first 3 volumes in the series. Volume 2) was the newest print (2008) and did NOT suffer the problems. volume 1) did suffer the problem, but it was not as bad as volume 3).
Amazon's customer service was brilliant though. They immediately send a replacement bunch, though that suffered the same problems, and in the end was able to easily return the books free of charge.
Example: page 145, equations (1) and (2) in the solution to the problem are partly unreadable.
This is not the only place where an expression is partly unreadable or barely readable.
I had ordered the first 3 volumes in the series. Volume 2) was the newest print (2008) and did NOT suffer the problems. volume 1) did suffer the problem, but it was not as bad as volume 3).
Amazon's customer service was brilliant though. They immediately send a replacement bunch, though that suffered the same problems, and in the end was able to easily return the books free of charge.
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