Review Questions
© Leon van Dommelen
To:
2.1 The Revised Picture of Nature
2
. Basic Ideas of Quantum Mechanics
Subsections
2
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The Revised Picture of Nature
2
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2
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
2
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3
The Operators of Quantum Mechanics
2
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4
The Orthodox Statistical Interpretation
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4
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1
Only eigenvalues
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4
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2
Statistical selection
2
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5
A Particle Confined Inside a Pipe
2
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5
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1
The physical system
2
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5
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2
Mathematical notations
2
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5
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3
The Hamiltonian
2
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5
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4
The Hamiltonian eigenvalue problem
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5
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All solutions of the eigenvalue problem
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6
Discussion of the energy values
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Discussion of the eigenfunctions
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5
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8
Three-dimensional solution
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5
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9
Quantum confinement
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6
The Harmonic Oscillator
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1
The Hamiltonian
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2
Solution using separation of variables
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6
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3
Discussion of the eigenvalues
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6
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4
Discussion of the eigenfunctions
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6
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5
Degeneracy
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6
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6
Non-eigenstates
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2.1 The Revised Picture of Nature
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