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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kim, U.-Rae
• Cho, Sungwoong
• Lee, Jungil

Titel

Physics analysis with Leibniz’s differential operators dn

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 2023-10, Vol.83 (7), p.513-519

Ort / Verlag

Seoul: The Korean Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We introduce a systematic approach to represent Leibniz’s n th-order differential operator d n as the ratio of an infinite product of infinitesimal difference operators to an infinitesimal parameter. Because every difference operator can be expressed as a difference of two shift operators that translate the argument of a function by finite amounts, Leibniz’s differential operator d n is eventually expressed as the infinite product of infinitesimal binomial operators consisting of the shift operators. We apply this strategy to demonstrate the derivation of the translation or time-evolution operators in quantum mechanics. This fills the logical gap in most textbooks on quantum mechanics that usually omit explicit derivations. Our approach could be employed in general physics or classical mechanics classes with which one can solve the equation of motion without prior knowledge of differential equations.