Sunday, August 5, 2007

Reading Assignment 4

Most difficult part of the material

Applying the separation of variables multiple times in order to solve the the time-independent Schroedinger equation. I understood it to an extent when we did it last lecture, however I am still not sure how to apply it multiple times. This is made more complicated with the introduction of spherical polar coords into the mix, it would be good if these were explained a bit slower in the lecture so that I do not get lost when we go over them.

Most interesting part of the material

I much prefer to look at one dimensional atoms and their potentials. I recognise the coulomb potential equation but am still not 100% sure on how to apply it. It is good to finally see what the solutions to the Schroe eqn look like, as seen with eqn 7-24.

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