Physics 3220, Fall '96 Homework #14

Issued Wed, Nov 27 Due Fri, Dec 6

Required reading for this week: Ch. 11


There are HINTS for this homework!

1) Gas #11-1

2a) Given (Gas. p. 197), use the operator to generate . Use Gas. Eq. 11-48 to get the normalization. Thus, verify that Gas' result for (also given on p. 197) is completely correct.

2b) Gas 11-3

3a) Find and for a particle which is in a state having definite values for , and .

b) Verify the prediction of the uncertainty principle for , using Gas. Eq. 6-64.

Under what condition (if ever) can ?

4) Gas 11-5

5) Gas 11-10

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