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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Simple QED question
- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:44:49 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <12950070@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>, ric@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Ric Peregrino) writes...
- >
- >I'd like to learn more. Perhaps you could recommend a good book. I've
- >got a BSEE and an MSEE, with a lot of math background. I've seen
- >some QM, but not quantization of the electromagnetic field. I'd
- >like to read and understand something (QED?) at the graduate level.
-
- The first book I learned from, which, IMHO, gave me a good intuitive feel
- for QED because I was able to diligently work through everything from cover
- to cover, is J.J. Sakurai's _Advanced Quantum Mechanics_. It suffers from
- being a little out of date notationally. It uses the Minkowski metric rather
- than the more modern real metric with signature -2. And it doesn't use
- the same conventions as more modern books (like Itzykson and Zuber) for
- normalizations in a variety of places. But I think that it's a good place
- to start. You need only a QM background and the math that any EE should
- know. Good luck.
-
- -Scott
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- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
-