Is Griffiths' Particle Physics Sufficient to Start Peskin and Schroeder's QFT?

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Reading Griffiths' particle physics book provides a solid foundation in the subject, but it may not cover all the prerequisites necessary for tackling Peskin and Schroeder's quantum field theory (QFT) book. A strong understanding of graduate-level mechanics and electrodynamics is essential for QFT, as these subjects underpin many concepts in the field. While Goldstein's classical mechanics and Jackson's electrodynamics are commonly recommended, alternative resources exist that can also prepare readers for QFT. Key concepts that should be mastered include scattering cross-sections, creation and annihilation operators, angular momentum ladder operators, the Heisenberg and Schrödinger pictures, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations, Lorentz transformations, and electromagnetic potentials. Overall, while Griffiths is helpful, additional study in graduate mechanics and electrodynamics is likely necessary before delving into Peskin and Schroeder.
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if i read griffiths particle physics book will I have enough knowledge of the subject material to start reading peskin and schroeder's qft book or will I still have to learn graduate mechanics and electrodynamics first before starting on that. If I do need to look at graduate mechanics and electrodynamics is there any other book (other than goldstein and jackson) that give all the nessary mechanics and electrodynamics needed for qft or is all the mechanics and electrodynamics that you need to know for qft all of goldstein and jackson?
 
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Mark Srednicki gives the following list of equations (lattached as gif) that one should be familiar with before tackling http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/%7Emark/qft.html. Or in terms of the concepts:

Scattering cross-section
Creation (and annihilation) operator
Angular momentum ladder operators
Heisenberg and Schroedinger pictures
Hamiltonian and Lagrangian
Lorentz transformations and 4-momentum
Electromagnetic vector and scalar potentials
 

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but will griffiths still help me complete all prequisites to start learning qft with pesking a schroeder or would i still have to read from goldstein and jackson?
 
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