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Quantum Physics and the Hamiltonian

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One of the central problems of quantum mechanics is to calculate the energy levels of a system. The energy operator, called the Hamiltonian, abbreviated H, gives you the total energy. Finding the energy levels of a system breaks down to finding the eigenvalues of the problem

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The eigenvalues can be found by solving the equation:

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