Finally finished all the math needed so I can get started with actually QM i.e. third year physics.
Feels good. After all the math this is easy. After this, solid state physics, thermodynamics again, classical EM again.
What physics text are you studying at the moment?
Carter Jenkins
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Andrew Hernandez
Trying to learn qft. I only brought Lahiri/Pal and Maggiore with me on vacation. I have Zee and Ryder back home. Anyone have any opinions on qft texts?
Isaac Turner
What physics text should I read if I want to build a time machine?
Brandon Rivera
I have used this with success.
Who cares if you actually travel forward or back in time or not?
Justin Ross
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Has anyone tried "Student Friendly QFT" as a first text?
Camden Gonzalez
the MIT OCW texts are usually good. Here we have
An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory
Michael E. Peskin, Dan V. Schroeder
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Three books will be used in this course.
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Weinberg, S. The Quantum Theory of Fields. Vol. 1: Foundations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780521550017.
A comprehensive and insightful treatment of the foundations of QFT.
The Quantum Theory of Fields. Vol. 2: Modern Applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521550024.
A detailed presentation of advanced material.
Looks like you are going to need multiple texts. Actually I like to get 5-6 on any topic and read them all fast then study the best one in detail, using the others when I get stuck.
Hunter Sullivan
Maggiore looks a bit rich for a first hit. Similar for Ryder.
Isaiah Barnes
Not Peskin and Shroeder! It's a wonderful book, but not suitable as an introductory text. It's better after you've done a basic QFT course and want to move on to advanced topics.
The best introductory course I have seen is David Tong: damtp.cam.ac.uk
The notes are very robust, and cover everything that you need. I would do chapters 0-3 of that, with another introductory textbook on the side.
After that, go over to Peskin and Schroeder.
Caleb Flores
Definitely not Weinberg either. Weinberg is a fantastic book (he approaches QFT from a perspective that not a lot of other books do, and gives really good insight), but it takes ages to read if it's your first time.
I actually found Tong and P&S to be on about similar levels, at least with respect to the topics that they both cover (which is about the first six chapters of P&S). They both approach things in slightly different ways though - I learned the first bit of QFT from jumping back and forth from P&S to Tong and it worked pretty well.
Eli Thompson
>Part III of the tripos
>Canonical quantization
Utterly repulsive. No one does it that way anymore (well to be fair no one really uses Feynman rules in theory anymore). But really at this stage it should be path integrals at the first pass.