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Proof of Ehrenfest's Theorem

To apply our general result (12) to prove Ehrenfest's theorem, we must now compute the commutator using the specific forms of the operator , and the operators and . We will begin with the position operator ,

Inserting this into (12) completes the proof of the first part of Ehrenfest's Theorem,

The proof of the second part of Ehrenfest's theorem proceeds in the precisely the same way, but now we must compute the commutator ,

Inserting this into (12) completes the proof of second part of Ehrenfest's Theorem,



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Thu Oct 12 12:30:23 EDT 1995