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Alternate Proof: Ehrenfest's Theorem

Give an alternate, explicit proof of Ehrenfest's theorem,

  equation137

by showing that direct substitution of (1) into the left hand side of ( ) gives the same thing as does direct substitution of (1) into the right hand side of ( ).
Note: Work under the assumptions that tex2html_wrap_inline467 and tex2html_wrap_inline469 do not depend on time.
Hint: You may wish to first evaluate tex2html_wrap_inline471 , and then work both sides of (3.3) through a bit to see how to make the connections.



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Mon Apr 7 11:35:08 EDT 1997