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AdrianMay
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Hi all,
The textbook simple harmonic oscillator solution has no imaginary values. True or false? If true, why not? Most of the time you get something like XXX.exp[i(Et-p.x)].
I thought maybe it was a superposition of states such that the complex parts cancel, but in that case they'd both have the same energy and you'd probably mangle them into sum and difference form so as to get different eigenvalues.
Confused,
Adrian.
The textbook simple harmonic oscillator solution has no imaginary values. True or false? If true, why not? Most of the time you get something like XXX.exp[i(Et-p.x)].
I thought maybe it was a superposition of states such that the complex parts cancel, but in that case they'd both have the same energy and you'd probably mangle them into sum and difference form so as to get different eigenvalues.
Confused,
Adrian.