I have been using Griffith's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. My thought is that some Wiki example problems could come from this book. I can't tell what would be the best problems to post. It would be interesting to me to post ways to do Dirac notation in Maxima in the Wiki. Maybe the infinite square well, the harmonic potential, the raising and lowering operators too, commutators. Not sure what others would want to see in there. I have done most of my assigned problems in Griffith's using Maxima. I really like this idea.
------------Original Message------------
From: RTATECH\" <David.Billinghurst at riotinto.com>
To: "Richard Hennessy" <rvh2007 at comcast.net>, "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Date: Wed, May-28-2008 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: [Maxima] Question
> From: Richard Hennessy
>
> Does anyone know a mailing list like this one that is about
> Quantum Mechanics (and numerical analysis) and also about
> using CAS applications (like Maxima) to do the huge amounts
> of math involved?
>
> I have wanted many times to post my questions to this group
> but have not since it is not really a QM list.
No. However, if the questions are phrased appropriately then
they would be of interest to me.
There are a some quantum mechanics problems in the maxima demos -
for example h_atom.dem and variational_method.dem in the
share/orthopoly directory. There may be others.
Perhaps we could start a collection of worked examples in the wiki
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/
David
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