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This student activity is designed to help upper division undergraduate students work with the mathematics of projection operators in quantum mechanics.  Students will find normalized orthogonal vectors, take outer products of vectors with themselves, and explore the resulting projection operators.  This material includes a student worksheet and instructor's guide.

This material is part of the Paradigms in Physics project at Oregon State University. This work promotes the use of active student learning in upper division physics courses. Both learning materials and learning strategies are provided to help both students and instructors. Instructors using these materials are encouraged to add comments on their experiences to the wiki.
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© 2007 Corinne Manogue
NSF Numbers:
9653250
0088901
0231032
0231194
0618877
0837829
Keywords:
Projection operator, determinant, matrices, outer product, vectors
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Metadata instance created February 10, 2010 by Cale Gentry
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August 19, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
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Paradigms in Physics Quantum: Projection Operators (Paradigms in Physics Program, Corvallis, 2007), <http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/physics/portfolioswiki/dokud203.html?id=activities:main&file=spprojectionoperators>.
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