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Schwartz Inequality

You will eventually use this theorem to give the formal proof of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Do problem 4 from p. 123 of Gasiorowicz:

Hint: In this problem Gasiorowicz is using a specialized notation which you will use in 8.05 and 8.059. (For the things which we do in 8.04, this notation doesn't make things much simpler.)

The notation, however, is not very mysterious. The expression tex2html_wrap_inline482 simply means to take the two functions tex2html_wrap_inline420 and tex2html_wrap_inline486 and combine them to make a single complex number by integrating one times the other,

displaymath488

Because this form an intgral comes up often in Quantum Mechanics it is useful to have a special notation for it. If have trouble with this notation, simply translate what Gasiorowicz says into integrals and do what he suggests.

Alternate Assingment: If you are already familar with Gasiorowicz's proof and would like to try something more direct and different, you may instead do the proof by first explaining

displaymath490

where tex2html_wrap_inline492 is defined to be the real part of the complex number z, similar operations on tex2html_wrap_inline496 and then your results.



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Fri Mar 7 12:59:40 EST 1997