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So in quantum theory the wave function you’re given need not necessarily have the property that its square integral is 1, but you can rescale it by a suitable number, I mean, if it’s not 1, but if it’s 100 then you divide it by 10 and that function will have a square integral of 1. I felt bad telling you that every function can be expanded this way, but the coefficients being given by the formula is not too far away, so I want to show you how it’s done.
0000072771 00000 n I mean, 7 divided by 11 is one thing and 4 divided by 11 is the absolute probability. Shankar's book covers quantum mechanics at a level somewhat higher than that of Griffiths's So let me write the vector I’m going to use a similar trick now in our problem. 'No matter how gently one introduces students to the concept of Dirac's bras and kets, many are turned off. - Quantum Mechanics III Overview. You understand now?What are the possible functions I can ascribe with the particle? 0000004155 00000 n If it’s normalized the advantage is the square directly gives you the absolute probability density and integral of that will give you 1.
This is the first time you realize this is the quantum of quantum theory. And once you get one of the allowed answers there are two things I’m telling you.
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Here are my notes and solutions to various problems in R. Shankar's textbook
Do you understand that? Here, We provided to Principles Of Quantum Mechanics By R Shankar. 0000072132 00000 n 14.1Review of Tensors in Classical Mechanics 650 14.2Tensors in Quantum Mechanics 660 14.3Kinematics of Spin-1/2 Systems 690 14.4Dynamics of Spin-1/2 Systems 695 14.5Applications of Spin Angular Momentum 707 Addition of Angular Momenta 15.1Addition of Angular Momentum – States 725 15.2Spherical Tensor States 757 15.3Spherical Tensor Operators 767 That’s the convention and it’s a convenience, and I will generally assume that we have done that.And I also pointed out to you that the function ψ and the function 3 times ψ stand for the same situation in quantum mechanics. 0000038378 00000 n
0000049679 00000 n First question is what makes you think that you can write any function I give you as a sum of these functions. Then you can get all those answers with those probabilities.So the last thing I’m going to do is just one more example of this where you actually have to do an integral and you cannot just read off the answer by looking at it.
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So given one ψ you’re free to multiply it by any number, in fact, real or complex and that doesn’t change any prediction, so normally you multiply it by that number which makes the square integral in all of space equal to 1. PHYSICS 201b Quantum notes R. Shankar 2010 These notes, possibly containing some bugs were for students of Physics 201b. 0000006407 00000 n