Thursday, October 12, 2006

Hydrogen-like Energy Spectrum

No need to fully separate variables to obtain the energy spectrum from radial wave fxns! Use the variational principle instead. For a suitable wavefxn guess the exact answer may come up anyways.

The minimization can be done numerically. The trial wave functions can have several free parameters.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

eh? why did u want me to comment it, it's not like i actually get it =/

rz said...

sarcasm, my child, sarcasm! :-)