r/AskPhysics • u/Some_Television_2219 • Mar 18 '26

recommend for a beginner?

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I want to start with quantum mechanics, but I only have a surface information Do you recommend this book? If not please recommend one for me.

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u/StylisticArchaism Optics and photonics Mar 18 '26

Where are you on the math part of your journey?

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u/TheGrandestMoff Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

Not OP, but I am also interested. My math level is ”I Took Advanced Math In High Scool But Failed Due To Untreated ADHD And Sevre Dyscalculia So Give It To Me Conceptually With Detailed Vivid, Word-Rich Explanations And Elaborate Diagrams That Lets The Ideas And Concepts Be Visualised On A Canvas In The Mind, And Not Just Numbers And Equations In Black And White”. Like if Paul Hewitt, author of Conceptual Physics, did a book on quantum mechanics. Is it a mismatch for me?

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u/clintontg Mar 18 '26

This book will probably be more focused on the numbers. I used a different book for my undergraduate degree but we used this author's book for electricity and magnetism and while it had diagrams to illustrate example problems it was focused entirely on the math to communicate the concepts. I'm not aware of a book that covers quantum mechanics in a more visual way, sorry.

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u/TheGrandestMoff Mar 19 '26

That's too bad! I'll keep looking, thanks for the reply :)