Hamiltonian Kinetic Energy Operator

DiracPool · Dec 12, 2012

In the QM Hamiltonian, I keep seeing h-bar/2m instead of p/2m for the kinetic energy term. H-bar is not equivalent to momentum. What am I missing here?

DiracPool · Dec 12, 2012

Actually, gang, I did a little more fishing and came across the answer to my question. For anyone that's interested, here's the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy

Look under this section: Kinetic energy in quantum mechanics

Hamiltonian Kinetic Energy Operator

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