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The thing that helped me learn freshman level physics was something called the Keller Plan taught at the University of Michigan in the '70s. To progress in the syllabus you had to achieve a 100% test score on a topic before moving on. A small group of students were assigned to a tutor and we'd work through the material at our own pace. Your grade was determined by how far you got in the syllabus. The tutors were students who had been through the course previously and received academic credit for their work. I tutored the following semester and that REALLY helped me learn physics.
Ultraviolet Superradiance from Mega-Networks of Tryptophan in Biological Architecture
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If you want a relatively small book for physics up to Quantum Electrodynamics and then some, you should go with Maggiores Modern Quantum Field theory. It gives you only the essential and sometimes it can get as in-depth as bigger books in fewer pages.
The overall best book that I know of is Schwartzs Quantum field theory and the Standard Model. It provides a very modern introduction to quantum field theory and it’s excellent in building intuition. It’s very thorough as well. It covers everything regarding Standard Model physics, along with some more advanced topics at the final chapters. It is quite exquisite and contains a lot of interesting exercises per chapter.
The book Quantum Field Theory: Lectures of Sidney Coleman doesn’t cover renormalization as comprehensively as Schwartz, but often goes in more detail in everything else. This makes sense since it’s an almost 1200-long book. Any topic you can think of is covered thoroughly in this book. One area where it’s way above any of the other books on this list is on Lie groups and Lie algebras. It will provide you with everything needed to deeply learn the physics of the Standard Model. As for pedagogy, it might even beat Schwartzs book, which I’ve always considered to be the gold standard in.
If you’re looking for a book that will teach you QFT applied to condensed matter physics rather than particle physics, your best bet is Altland’s & Simon’s Condensed Matter Field theory. This is an amazing book and covers a huge breadth of topics and in great detail. It’s as pedagogical as Shankar’s Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter: An Introduction, but it covers everything in much more detail, so it’s the best choice if you’re aiming on becoming a researcher who applied QFT in condensed matter but values pedagogy. Shankars book is good for somebody who wants to get familiar with some commonly used techniques of the field. The other alternative is Fradkins Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physicswhich is at a slightly higher level than Altlands & Simons book. While it covers some more advanced topics, it’s much difficult to go through than A&S’s book and doesn’t contain any exercises.
If you want an easy book for QFT because you’re either an undergrad who’s just interested in QFT or because you don’t want to use it for research, you can’t go wrong with Blundells & Lancaster’s Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur or Klauber’s Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory. They are both very pedagogical and easy to read. My personal favourite, which I read while I was an interested undergrad, is B&L’s book. To be fair, Klauber’s book covers many more topics and will even teach you how to compute scattering amplitudes and perform renormalization. Still, they’re both written in a very user-friendly way.