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How should I cite an equation from a book?

ok I think this is making more sense now Thank you Malawi_glenn, you will see me posting many more questions in this forum : )

oh wait, is aj just the jth component of ket | a > ?

or perhaps the better question is, are i and j two separate bases? Is j just another index over the basis i ?

was |a> in the basis {| j >} to begin with?

yes, but where does j even come from? if we are trying to find the components of |a> with respect to the basis {|i>}, why do we need j? I do not understand

I am trying to interpret equation 1.48a on page 11 in Szabo & Ostlund's "Modern Quantum Chemistry". What purpose does the index j serve? Is j another basis? Why do we need j?Reference: Szabo, A., & Ostlund, N. S. (1996). Modern quantum chemistry: Introduction to advanced electronic...

Hello everyone, I have a large number of questions pertaining to Hartree-Fock theory, as well some things I need clarified as I go through the book, "Modern Quantum Chemistry: Introduction to Advanced Electronic Structure Theory" by Attila Szabo and Neil S. Ostlund. Is this the correct forum...

Hello all, I am a mature student who only found out about computational chemistry kind of late in life. I am trying very hard this summer to understand Hartree-Fock Theory. I hope to be able to get help understanding some concepts, right now I am trying to work my way through the Szabo book...