Hooke's law: Constructing a force operator for electron orbitals?

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Wondering if the information in my post is like Hooke's Law for electron orbitals or part of it
I saw a post on Facebook about Hooke's Law. F = -kx + mg. Does that mean a "force operator" could be constructed... if the wave function has eigenfunctions equal to some constant times ekr + iωt could the observed components of F (a force between an electron and a proton, let's say) be defined as the natural logarithm of Ψ? I think I'm using the right terminology but please correct me if I'm wrong.
 

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You use alphabet k to mean two different quantities i.e., spring constant and wave number, which cause the confusion.