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ylem
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Hey! I am completely confused...
In quantum mechanics at University we are learning about operators. I don't understand what you actually have to do to write an operator as a matrix...
In my notes, I'm looking at the kinetic energy operator in the Hamiltonian...
I can see for something basic - like an operator that makes things the number 3 when you have an orthonormal basis set that the matrix is simply
3 0 0
0 3 0
0 0 3
But I don't know how to adapt this to something more complex...
Thanks for your help! I hope I posted this in the right place :-s
Sam x
In quantum mechanics at University we are learning about operators. I don't understand what you actually have to do to write an operator as a matrix...
In my notes, I'm looking at the kinetic energy operator in the Hamiltonian...
I can see for something basic - like an operator that makes things the number 3 when you have an orthonormal basis set that the matrix is simply
3 0 0
0 3 0
0 0 3
But I don't know how to adapt this to something more complex...
Thanks for your help! I hope I posted this in the right place :-s
Sam x