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Title: dull as dishwater
Review: What an uninspired, leaden, workmanlike book. Quantum by the numbers, turn the math handle and crank out the answers. Although this is supposed to be an elementary book, there is more mind-numbing math here that many contemporary Physics majors can handle, and there is much less discussion of concepts than they need. If putting a dead pet on the back cover is friendly, this book is friendly!Goswami's book (now sadly out of print) is much better on motivation, and desn't do as much grind-math. I wish there were a book on Quantum that would break the mold and try to be interesting for today's students, and not just churn out the same old calculations on the same old systems (harmonic oscillator, hydrogen atom, blah-blah). It could have sections on quantum computing, laser trapping... This is not that book.
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