Recent content by CharlesFrancis

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    Graduate Why the electron orbit is a integer multiple of De Broglie wavelength?

    When you say "electron path", and "orbit", I suspect you are thinking in thinking in terms of the Bohr atom, but the Bohr atom with an orbiting electron is no longer considered a good description. To solve the Schrödinger equation, we are looking for a stable electron state, or eigenstate...
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    Graduate Dirac Equation: Gamma Matrices as 4-Vector Components?

    This is the defining condition for the Dirac matrices. It is not derived, because it is a definition. It is required to allow the factorisation of the Klein Gordon equation in the derivation of the Dirac equation.