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Griffith’s Quantum Mechanics | Preface

01.15.2017 by Adrian Hindes // Leave a Comment

– QM was not created by one individual, and retains ‘scars’ from its traumatic youth.

>’I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.’
-Feynman

– One cannot understand what quantum mechanics *means* until one understands what it *does*. That’s what this book is about.

– May be ‘forbiddingly mathematical’…but this is because it is **useful**, and not meant to be torture for undergraduate students.

> But to become accustomed to the shovel, one must develop a few blisters.
-David Griffith

– Do the fucking questions.

*…yes Sensei Griffith.*

-A

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