Abstract

Description of the three-dimensional motion of a free particle of sharp momentum by a harmonic plane wave. Schrodinger equation of free motion in three dimensions. Gaussian wave packet. Angular momentum. Spherical harmonics as eigenfunctions of angular momentum. Radial Schrodinger equation of free motion. Spherical Bessel functions. Partial wave decomposition of plane wave and Gaussian wave packet.

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