This is my favorite physics, but it took me a while before I really understood it. What parts are particularly troubling you?

As for more intuitive ways to think about it, sometimes thinking of bras and kets as vectors helps, but I think grasping them in an abstract way is most beneficial, and its that transition to the abstract understanding that can be particularly difficult.

This is my favorite physics, but it took me a while before I really understood it. What parts are particularly troubling you?

 

As for more intuitive ways to think about it, sometimes thinking of bras and kets as vectors helps, but I think grasping them in an abstract way is most beneficial, and its that transition to the abstract understanding that can be particularly difficult.

 

I guess it's the abstract part I have problems with. Also things like commutation relations and similar things; I fear it's a mixture of lacking abstract understanding as well as a grasp of the mathematics behind it.

(exponential matrices are awful too. :/ )

 

This is my favorite physics, but it took me a while before I really understood it. What parts are particularly troubling you?

 

As for more intuitive ways to think about it, sometimes thinking of bras and kets as vectors helps, but I think grasping them in an abstract way is most beneficial, and its that transition to the abstract understanding that can be particularly difficult.

 

 

 

I guess it's the abstract part I have problems with. Also things like commutation relations and similar things; I fear it's a mixture of lacking abstract understanding as well as a grasp of the mathematics behind it.

 

(exponential matrices are awful too. :/ )

 

Wow, I didn't start exponential matrices until I did graduate-level quantum mechanics. It's good that you're getting that exposure, though.

I don't know of any specific source that handles Dirac notation superbly well, but I'm sure you can find some resources online or in your school's library. If I come across any good ones, I'll let you know!

(I may or may not be making a write-up on Dirac notation for fun due to this post. XD Also, what text are you using in your class?)

Wow, I didn't start exponential matrices until I did graduate-level quantum mechanics. It's good that you're getting that exposure, though.

 

I don't know of any specific source that handles Dirac notation superbly well, but I'm sure you can find some resources online or in your school's library. If I come across any good ones, I'll let you know!

 

(I may or may not be making a write-up on Dirac notation for fun due to this post. XD Also, what text are you using in your class?)

 

 

Well, I guess my encounter with them has only been/ will only be a short ome as well... but the concept itself is still kind of foreign to me. ^^"

Haven't found much online, but then again, my search hasn't been that intensive yet, either.

Aw, thanks! :3

(whaaaat xD Well, if that's fun to you... kidding, I'd probably find it more fun as well if I actually understood it. We're not directly using a "text" per se; I mean, there were a few recommendations, but that was pretty much it)