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- From: danforth@riacs.edu (Douglas G. Danforth)
- Subject: Re: quantization of angular momentum
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.222955.21343@riacs.edu>
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- Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
- References: <TK.92Aug31202517@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> <25903@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Sep1.203830.2793@galois.mit.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 22:29:55 GMT
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- In <1992Sep1.203830.2793@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
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- >In article <25903@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
- >>L is not quantized under all circumstances. For a free particle,
- >>none of r,p, and L are quantized.
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- >Ouch! L is quantized under all circumstances. Its eigenvalues are
- >half-integer multiples of hbar, even for free particles.
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- Is the impact parameter in particle scattering quantized?
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