Bulletin of Pure & Applied Sciences- Mathematics and Statistics
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 40e
  • Issue: 2

The equation for the wavefunction in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics*

1Research Foundation of Southern California, 8861 La Jolla Drive #13595, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA

Corresponding author Simon Davis, E-mail: sbdavis@resfdnsca.org

Abstract

The momentum operator may be generalized for the correspondence of the limit of quantum commutators of observables with the classical commutators. The substitution of the momentum operator into the nonrelativistic equation for the conservation of energy yields a generalization of the stationary wave equation. Replacing also the energy operator, a generalization of the time-dependent Schrödinger equations, there exists a special class of wavefunctions that satisfies the nonrelativistic wave equation in quantum theory.

Keywords

Commutator, Generalized momentum operator, Wave equation