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    Solving Puzzling Questions: Total Spin S, L and J

    I'm just going through a past paper for an exam I am revising for and I can't work out how to solve this question! it's " Total spin S, total orbital angular momentum L and total angular moment J are specified according to spectroscopic notation by the term symbol ^{S+1}L_{J} i) For...
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    I think this is simple but I just cant work out how

    how does \frac{1/a -1/b}{1/a+1/b}= \frac{b-a}{b+a} Ive been trying to work this out for ages thanks
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    Graduate Just a quick question about some basic terms in QM

    I'm trying to ge my head around some basic things but where ever I look I seem to get a different answer. what is an eigenvalue, eigenvector, eigenfunction and eigen stat, all in the context of QM? and how do these apply to the operator equation. \hat{O} \psi = O \psi what is the...