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Last week, I printed out several notes I found online on Dirac notation and operator methods in quantum mechanics. I made it a point today to read all of them and glean what knowledge I could outside of our terrible Gasiorowicz book. After reviewing all the properties, useful derivations and so forth, I feel I should be able to knock out these two problems with ease. However, that's not happening. I feel a mental block and disconnect from the material I covered in using it to work out these two problems. I'm not sure which direction to go with the problem to show that it's zero unless n = m +/-1. Do I insert the explicit quantum operator? Conjugate the inner product and play with a few identities?
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