Reading Assignment 5

Most difficult part of the material

Section 7.6 on eigenfunctions I found to be difficult. Books always talk about 'extracting' information out of them, or from equations, and I don't completely understand how this works (using operators perhaps?). It will be useful to slowly go through the maths involved, and exactly what an eigenfunction is (in physics).

Most interesting part of the material

Definitely the probability densities in section 7.7. These I find more tolerable and easier to understand, since some of it is similiar to work from second year chemistry. The graphs I could understand, though I fear I may have trouble once we start looking at multielection atoms instead of the much easier hydrogen atom.