Question about angular momentum and spin

[rabbit44]

Hi quick question, is there a reason that the eigenvalues of Jz, Lz and Sz are all denoted m? Are they the same? Because I have seen them interchanged such as in addition of angular momenta.

Thanks

 

[malawi_glenn]

One call them M since they was found experimentally by interaction by EM-fields, "Magnetic Quantum Number" :-)

One should use subscript in order to differ between them:

m_j, \, m_s, \, m_\ell