What is this all about?

On my other blog on Wordpress I have a pretty clear and definite plan. On that blog I'll write up my class notes, and other resources, with the goal of re-studying and having a stronger and more united grasp of physics.

Here I'll just post meta-questions. By meta-questions I mean such questions has: "Why is it necessary to build on an axiomatic basis the real numbers?", "Why are we also presenting physics in an axiomatic way?", "What is Quantum-Mechanics and what is my interpretation of it?". And of course a whole lot of other things similar to these ones.

These sort of questions and other issues that I feel that don't go along with the purpose of Climbing the Mountain will end up in here. I may review some book, I may discuss some particular point (or points) of some book I've read, I may post here some wacky reasoning/calculation/neat trick/thought that for some reason or another I find to be interesting. I'll post some interesting questions (to me at least) pertaining some field of knowledge that has some sort of relation with Physics and/or Mathematics. Please expect a true pot pourri of ideas and themes whose only identifying theme will be the fact that they come from the same guy.

Thanks for reading and enjoy the ride.

 

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The Quantum Gang

The idea for this blog came about when a couple of guys were discussing Quantum Mechanics on an internet forum. The said forum hardly is the best place on the web to discuss such issues, thus the idea came of doing this on a blog which allows one to use LateX and, on top of that, can be seen by a lot  more people. On this blog we will tackle Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by Griffiths (which is, hands down, the best introductory book on Quantum Mechanics) doing almost all of the exercises, discussing almost all of the finer details, and getting a real understanding of a truly interesting and important topic. Even though the book is pretty much self contained, Physics wise, one does need a little bit of minimum baggage. Some suggestions, for this minimum baggage, may be:

1. Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems (the Second edition of this book may be the best in my opinion)
2. Introduction to Electrodynamics
3. A knowledge of Thermodynamics on the level of  Physics for Scientists and Engineers.

What you definitely need to know though is some mathematics. Here I won't suggest any particular books but will instead just list the topics:

1. Integral and Differential Calculus
2. Differential Equations
3. Series
4. Linear Algebra
5. Probability and Statistics.

We will review some of these concepts here, so don't worry too much if you feel that you may be lacking knowledge on some particular topic. If energy permits, after this adventure is done, we will also take a look at Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics.

In order to easy the navigation between posts related to The Quantum Gang here are the relevant posts in logical order:

• Basic Mathematics
• Matrices, Scalars, Vectors and Vector Calculus 01
• Matrices, Scalars, Vectors and Vector Calculus 02
• Matrices, Scalars, Vectors and Vector Calculus 03 

• Classical Physics
• Newtonian Mechanics 01
• Newtonian Mechanics 02
• Newtonian Mechanics 03
• Newtonian Mechanics 04
• Newtonian Mechanics 05
• Newtonian Mechanics 06
• Newtonian formalism exercises
• Hamiltonian formalism exercises

• Quantum Mechanics
• Quantum Mechanics Introduction
• The Wave Function 01
• The Wave Function 02
• The Wave Function Exercises 01
• The Wave Function 03
• The Wave Function 04
• The Wave Function 05
• Time-independent Schrodinger equation 01