Harmonic Oscillator

[Shishir_Sabbir]

The simple harmonic oscillator is an excellent model for a wide range of systems in nature. In fact, not long after Planck’s discovery that the black body radiation spectrum could be explained by assuming energy to be exchanged in quanta, Einstein applied the same principle to the simple harmonic oscillator.

[ajb]

The simple harmonic oscillator is an excellent model for a wide range of systems in nature. In fact, not long after Planck’s discovery that the black body radiation spectrum could be explained by assuming energy to be exchanged in quanta, Einstein applied the same principle to the simple harmonic oscillator.

This is true and the harmonic oscillator is fundamental in perturbative quantum field theory. But what is it you want to discuss here?

[imatfaal]

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The simple harmonic oscillator is an excellent model for a wide range of systems in nature. In fact, not long after Planck’s discovery that the black body radiation spectrum could be explained by assuming energy to be exchanged in quanta, Einstein applied the same principle to the simple harmonic oscillator.

 

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