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Momentum operator
In
quantum mechanics
,
momentum
(like all other physical variables) is defined as an
operator
, which "acts on" or pre-multiplies the
wave function
to extract the momentum
eigenvalue
from the wave function: the momentum vector a particle would have when
measured in an experiment
. The
momentum operator
is an example of a
differential operator
.
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