Talk:Quantum physics terms
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It's a scientific article, Gatecrasher... this isn't Uncyclopedia, you know. UchihaKATON! 01:24, 4 April 2008 (EDT)
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mea culpa copy/paste instead of cut/paste. SusanG 13:17, 4 April 2008 (EDT)
- Hehe, that's why we all proofread each other! human
13:52, 4 April 2008 (EDT)
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"The Hamiltonian is what is usually used in quantum mechanics to describe the system - if you give the system's Hamiltonian, you have described it." I don't get this. Sterile hadron 17:45, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
- It's just a mathematical operator that you apply to your system, a function just like multiply, add, or sin and cos, but slightly more complicated and usually with imaginary numbers in it. The Ĥ in the Schrodinger equation Ĥψ=Eψ is the Hamiltonian; when you apply the Hamiltonian operation to the wave function ψ (not simply multiply Ĥ by ψ), you get the wavefunction back again multiplied by a particularly energy; Eψ. The Hamiltonian has to satisfy the Schrodinger equation so produces discrete values for E for a given wave function. Ask some actual physics students to fill in the more precise and accurate details, I'm not as hot on it as I used to be.
moral 20:25, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
- Basically, the phrase means that different systems, like different molecules, will have different Hamiltonians that satisfy the Schrodinger equation and thus describe the system in an accurate mathematical context. As a point, it's only possible to exactly solve one for a one electron system. I don't think it's possible to fully describe it without going deep into a level of maths that's best left to people who get the jokes in Abstruse Goose.
moral 20:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
- Basically, the phrase means that different systems, like different molecules, will have different Hamiltonians that satisfy the Schrodinger equation and thus describe the system in an accurate mathematical context. As a point, it's only possible to exactly solve one for a one electron system. I don't think it's possible to fully describe it without going deep into a level of maths that's best left to people who get the jokes in Abstruse Goose.