Part IB Quantum Mechanics resources

This page lists things possibly of interest to my Part IB Quantum Mechanics students. It will be updated from time to time.

Books

• Alexandre Zagoskin, Quantum Mechanics: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself. ISBN 9781473602410.

  Covers a lot of physicsy material but a bit light on the maths. Starts from classical physics and has important notes about the history and philosophy of quantum mechanics.

• Leonard Susskind, Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. ISBN 978-0465036677.

  Takes an axiomatic, mathematical approach and very useful for going from this course to Part II Principles of Quantum Mechanics, although the approach is a bit different from the one taken in this courses. Also available as video lectures.

• David Tong's lecture notes and book.

• Eugene Lim's notes on an older version of this course. Dead link – I shall try to find an archived version.

Web resources

Videos

The Looking Glass Universe channel by Mithuna Yonagathan has excellent explanations for quantum mechanical phenomena.

• I did the double slit experiment at home
• The biggest lie about the double slit experiment
• "Standard" quantum mechanics is obviously wrong – on problems with the Copenhagen interpretation.

FloatHeadPhysics has some excellent videos that try to make physics concepts intuitive and logical. He has a playlist of videos about quantum mechanics.

Demos

Paul Falstad's Math, Physics and Engineering applets has several demos related to quantum mechanics (and many other physics-y things).

For Pythonistas, I made a bunch of interactive demos for various courses that you can find on GitHub.

Pages on this blog

Everything relevant is tagged with the quantum-mechanics tag.

• Quantum mechanics revision guide
• The Bohr model: Some history and context
• The uncertainty principle and spectrograms
• The uncertainty principle is obvious to musicians