My Goodreads Rating: 4 of 5 stars By far the best of the solid state textbooks I’ve found. Whereas Kittel hops from model to model with little explanation, Ashcroft devotes entire chapters to the merits and failings of the free electron gas, periodic potentials, mean field theory, and so on. In a field that can [...]
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My Goodreads Rating: 4 of 5 stars Those who follow the pack waste days wrinkling their foreheads at the long, winding, historical path through quantum mechanics that David Griffiths leads his unsuspecting followers on. Those who know better skip the foreplay and face the glorious intellectual burden that are the axioms of quantum mechanics in [...]
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My Goodreads Rating: 3 of 5 stars Trying to teach undergrads general relativity is about as easy as teaching a puppy… general relativity. Hartle strikes a pretty good balance with this book, offering 30-page chapters with *gasp* only a half-dozen equations that focus on conveying high-level concepts as well as chapters fully devoted to tensors, [...]
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