Corrigenda Note 178(5)

Feed: Dr. Myron Evans
Posted on: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 7:16 AM
Author: metric345
Subject: Corrigenda Note 178(5)

Thanks to Dr Horst Eckardt for two corrigenda:

1) In Eq. (19), replace minus by plus before (epsilon – V) / (2 m c squared).
2) In Eq. (30) the first term is plus and second term minus.

These slips do not affect the final result (41). The mass term is given by some authors and not by others (e.g. Ryder does not give it, and he omits the spin orbit and Darwin terms). It comes from the non-relativistic approximation of kinetic energy given in eq. (22), i.e. epsilon about p squared / (2m). This approximate epsilon is then put back in the third RHS term of eq. (21) to give:

sigma dot p p squared sigma dot p phi / (8 m cubed c squared) = p fourth / (8 m cubed c squared)

with p = – i h bar del.

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