Archive of posts on Oct 18, 2023

• Oct 18, 2023

  You can replace $\mathrm i$ with $-\mathrm i$ in the Schrödinger equation?

  When someone asks you why it is $-\mathrm i$ here instead of $\mathrm i$ or the other way around, you can say that this is just a convention. My professor of quantum mechanics once asked the class similar a question, and I replied with this letter.

  • Categories: physics
  • Tags: quantum mechanics, letter, complex