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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!unixhub!slacvm!walid
  2. From: WALID@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Walid Majid)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: quantization of angular momentum
  5. Message-ID: <92246.154856WALID@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
  6. Date: 2 Sep 92 23:48:55 GMT
  7. References: <TK.92Aug31202517@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> <25903@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
  8.  <1992Sep1.203830.2793@galois.mit.edu> <25947@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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  10. Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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  13. In article <25947@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) says:
  14. >
  15. >Am I off base here?  If you have a free scalar particle with wave function
  16. >exp(-iEt+px), how is L quantized?
  17. >
  18.  
  19. It is not.  A plane wave state is not an eigenstate of L.
  20.  
  21. Walid
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