Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

Pieter Zeeman for the Zeeman effect.

Basically the operators are just analogous to the classical ones e.g. the classical:becomes:

Besides the angular momentum in each direction, we also have the total angular momentum:

Then you have to understand what each one of those does to the each atomic orbital:

There is an uncertainty principle between the x, y and z angular momentums, we can only measure one of them with certainty at a time. Video 1. "Quantum Mechanics 7a - Angular Momentum I by ViaScience (2013)" justifies this intuitively by mentioning that this is analogous to precession: if you try to measure electrons e.g. with the Zeeman effect the precess on the other directions which you end up modifing.

TODO experiment. Likely Zeeman effect.

users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~lvovsky/B3/ contain assorted PDFs from between 2015 and 2019

Syllabus reads:

Professor in 2000s seems to beBut as of 2023 marked emeritus, so who took over?

Ewart is actually religious:This dude is pure trouble for Oxford!

Undated materials Ewart:

The partial differential equation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics.

Experiments explained:

Experiments not explained: those that the Dirac equation explains like:

To get some intuition on the equation on the consequences of the equation, have a look at:

The easiest to understand case of the equation which you must have in mind initially that of the Schrödinger equation for a free one dimensional particle.

Then, with that in mind, the general form of the Schrödinger equation is:where:

The $\overrightarrow{x}$ argument of $\psi$ could be anything, e.g.:Note however that there is always a single magical $t$ time variable. This is needed in particular because there is a time partial derivative in the equation, so there must be a corresponding time variable in the function. This makes the equation explicitly non-relativistic.

The general Schrödinger equation can be broken up into a trivial time-dependent and a time-independent Schrödinger equation by separation of variables. So in practice, all we need to solve is the slightly simpler time-independent Schrödinger equation, and the full equation comes out as a result.

Existence and uniqueness: mathoverflow.net/questions/212913/existence-and-uniqueness-for-two-dimensional-time-dependent-schr%C3%B6dinger-equation

A single line in the emission spectrum.

So precise, so discrete, which makes no sense in classical mechanics!

Has been the leading motivation of the development of quantum mechanics, all the way from the: