Tuesday, December 6, 2016

differentiation - Derivative of delta function


I am reading and following along the appendices of "The Physical Principles Of The Quantum Theory", and trying to learn how he derives Schrödinger's Equation from his Matrix Mechanics, but I have run into a bit of trouble. It seems like for his derivation to work, it must be necessary for the integral of a function times the Dirac Delta Function's derivative be: f(ξ)δ(aξ)dξ=f(a).

But the actual identity is f(ξ)δ(ξa)dξ=f(a).
Does anybody care to explain why it is like this in Heisenberg's book, or provide a derivation along the same vein, but with the correct identity for the delta function?




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