Saturday, December 16, 2017

quantum mechanics - How to explain the long lifetime of Rydberg atoms with Fermi golden rule?


How to explain the long lifetime of Rydberg atoms with Fermi golden rule? Wikipedia says it is partly due to tiny wavefunction overlap with inner orbitals, but what about the outer ones?




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

I am studying Statics and saw that: The moment of a force about a given axis (or Torque) is defined by the equation: $M_X = (\vec r \times \...