Investigating and addressing student difficulties with the corrections to the energies of the hydrogen atom for the strong and weak field Zeeman effect

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/AAB821zbMath1396.81223OpenAlexW2792511409MaRDI QIDQ4683477

Chandralekha Singh, Christof Keebaugh, Emily Marshman

Publication date: 21 September 2018

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aab821

zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theoryquantum mechanicstutorialphysics educationdegenerate perturbation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Atomic physics (81V45) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Physics, astronomy, technology, engineering (aspects of mathematics education) (97M50)

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Uses Software

• QuVis

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• Understanding quantum phenomena without solving the Schrödinger equation: the case of the finite square well
• Overcoming misconceptions in quantum mechanics with the time evolution operator
• Approximate approaches to the one-dimensional finite potential well
• Investigating and improving student understanding of the probability distributions for measuring physical observables in quantum mechanics

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