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At first I want to know the relationships of the math/formulae on QM and their phylosophical meanings. I've read some books for general public, and have basic idea. So now I'm feeling it's a nice time to learn further.
I have some knowledge on electrodynamics (I don't know how much level I can say; I don't know the criteria. At least I can explain several phenomena based on Maxwell equations), and theory of relativety. But I didn't learn QM so much.
So I want to learn QM and now am reading Greiner's "Quantum Mechanics-an introduction, 4th ed". I chose this one because it has a lot of calculations and I want to calculate by myself. And this book has a lot of exercises I can try and can do to confirm my knowledge. I am learning just for fun (not for research myself, because I'm not professional on physics), but I want to bind math and its meanings, because I personally think it's important and want to trace past researcher's works; how they worked and how they deduced principles. I know I'm very special in this sense; not professional, but want to trace researcher's work. Fortunately I'm good at math. Even if a new concept is given, I will be good at it in a short time.
There are many physics forums such as this on the Internet I can ask. But this forum looks the best.
When I was a high school student I studied theory of relativety, special and general up to black hole (no further), and when I was a university student I wrote a program in C to trace photon passing near a black hole with the mass of the Earth (around 7mm diameter, Schwarzschild radius. 16 years ago.)
For such a guy, what do you recommend (books or online references) to know the general, but specific knowledge on QM. I am not sure QED is necessary to me, or it may be necessary. Again I want books mentioning relationships between the formulae and its phylosophical meanings, and how researchers reached there. If it contains exercises, it's much helpful.
BTW now I'm developing for setiathome_enhanced and astropulse in the near future at boinc (see beta test and SETI@home.) If you are interested in it, you can easily run those programs in the background on several OS's. And it's my base now (I'm developing for Berkeley at beta test project. This is my another personal project than QM or any other my interest on physics and it's my base.
Thanks in advance!
I have some knowledge on electrodynamics (I don't know how much level I can say; I don't know the criteria. At least I can explain several phenomena based on Maxwell equations), and theory of relativety. But I didn't learn QM so much.
So I want to learn QM and now am reading Greiner's "Quantum Mechanics-an introduction, 4th ed". I chose this one because it has a lot of calculations and I want to calculate by myself. And this book has a lot of exercises I can try and can do to confirm my knowledge. I am learning just for fun (not for research myself, because I'm not professional on physics), but I want to bind math and its meanings, because I personally think it's important and want to trace past researcher's works; how they worked and how they deduced principles. I know I'm very special in this sense; not professional, but want to trace researcher's work. Fortunately I'm good at math. Even if a new concept is given, I will be good at it in a short time.
There are many physics forums such as this on the Internet I can ask. But this forum looks the best.
When I was a high school student I studied theory of relativety, special and general up to black hole (no further), and when I was a university student I wrote a program in C to trace photon passing near a black hole with the mass of the Earth (around 7mm diameter, Schwarzschild radius. 16 years ago.)
For such a guy, what do you recommend (books or online references) to know the general, but specific knowledge on QM. I am not sure QED is necessary to me, or it may be necessary. Again I want books mentioning relationships between the formulae and its phylosophical meanings, and how researchers reached there. If it contains exercises, it's much helpful.
BTW now I'm developing for setiathome_enhanced and astropulse in the near future at boinc (see beta test and SETI@home.) If you are interested in it, you can easily run those programs in the background on several OS's. And it's my base now (I'm developing for Berkeley at beta test project. This is my another personal project than QM or any other my interest on physics and it's my base.
Thanks in advance!
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