Quantum Dirac notation based quantum books?

[patric44]

hi
i am recently following the nptel course in quantum mechanics (The Course ) and it seems like a really good course , but i can't find
the book that it based on .
my question is : had anyone saw that course before to suggest a QM book related to it ?
- she began by an introduction to vector spaces and so on and then jumps right away to Dirac notation and i really like that , but the book i currently have is griffith which i don't really like it + it waits too much to introduce Dirac's notation , so is there is any book that does that job ( a little survey on vector spaces - inner products ... then uses Dirac notation all along ?

i am an undergrad student major in physics and i was supposed to take a quantum course this year but the corona virus stopped every thing , and our professor didn't arrange any online lectures or any thing with us basically he asked for a little 10 page research about angular momentum and its eigen values (i had a hard time doing it ) but managed to do it .
the point is , now i didn't take any formal course in QM yet and the next year we have a QM-2 course ?!
so any help will be appreciated .

 

[PeroK]

You could try Modern Quantum Mechanics by J.J. Sakurai.

 

[patric44]

You could try Modern Quantum Mechanics by J.J. Sakurai.

would it be too hard for me ? i heard that its a grad level book , or along with the nptel lectures it would be reasonable ?

 

[PeroK]

would it be too hard for me ? i heard that its a grad level book

The opening chapters are definitely not grad level. And you've already got Griffiths for wave mechanics.

 

[vanhees71]

It's much clearer than Griffiths, because Griffiths is too sloppy leading to confusion. Maybe if you find Sakurai to advanced, a good additional reading are the Feynman Lectures vol. III or the quantum mechanics volume in the "Theoretical Minimum" series by Suskind.

 

[DrClaude]

Sakurai is too high a level for a first course in QM. A good book using a states-first approach is
David McIntyre, Quantum Mechanics: A Paradigms Approach

 

[Andy Resnick]

is there is any book that does that job ( a little survey on vector spaces - inner products ... then uses Dirac notation all along ?

Two suggestions I have are:

Townsend: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1891389785/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Shankar: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEIXA2/?tag=pfamazon01-20

I assign Shankar in my undergrad quantum courses.

 

[hutchphd]

I very much like Gordon Baym "Lectures on Quantum Mechanics". It is an "easy" grad level text but you do need to know complex functions well. Very Dirac oriented