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fflo ([personal profile] fflo) wrote2005-03-01 02:41 pm

Always remember & never forget . . .

... the Fermi Golden Rule:

$$B(\omega,v-v_*)=\frac{1}{8\pi^2}|\omega\cdot(v-v_*)||{\widehat \phi}
((\omega\cdot(v-v_*))\omega)|^2$$

---you know, where the hat $\sphat$ denotes the Fourier transform and $\phi$ is a two-body interaction potential.

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2005-03-01 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't understand the math, but I can get into such flukes of notation, that's for sure.
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[personal profile] paperkingdoms 2005-03-01 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, at least a third of my enjoyment of Fourier transforms is typographical. [the upside down hat is undoing the Fourier transform.] I think part fun of math is the bizarre lengths we go through for precise notation [your supscripts have subscripts *and* superscripts??].