LaTeX Exercise 1

The images of the equations on this page were taken from the Wikipedia pages referenced for each equation.

Imports


In [1]:
from IPython.display import Image

Typesetting equations

In the following cell, use Markdown and LaTeX to typeset the equation for the probability density of the normal distribution $f(x, \mu, \sigma)$, which can be found here. Following the main equation, write a sentence that defines all of the variable in the equation.


In [2]:
Image(filename='normaldist.png')


Out[2]:
\begin{equation*} f(x, \mu, \sigma) = \frac{1}{\sigma \sqrt{2 \pi}} e ^{- \frac{(x-\mu)^{2}}{2 \sigma ^ {2}}} \end{equation*}

In the following cell, use Markdown and LaTeX to typeset the equation for the time-dependent Schrodinger equation for non-relativistic particles shown here (use the version that includes the Laplacian and potential energy). Following the main equation, write a sentence that defines all of the variable in the equation.


In [3]:
Image(filename='tdseqn.png')


Out[3]:
\begin{equation*} i \hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \Psi(\textbf{r}, t) = \left[\frac{-\hbar ^{2}}{2 \mu} \nabla ^{2} + V(\textbf{r}, t)\right]\Psi \end{equation*}

In the following cell, use Markdown and LaTeX to typeset the equation for the Laplacian squared ($\Delta=\nabla^2$) acting on a scalar field $f(r,\theta,\phi)$ in spherical polar coordinates found here. Following the main equation, write a sentence that defines all of the variable in the equation.


In [4]:
Image(filename='delsquared.png')


Out[4]:
\begin{equation*} \Delta f = \frac{1}{r ^{2}} \frac{\partial}{\partial r} \left(r ^{2} \frac{\partial f}{\partial r} \right) + \frac{1}{r^{2} sin \theta} \frac{\partial}{\partial \theta} \left(sin \theta \frac{\partial f}{\partial \theta} + \frac{1}{r^{2}sin \theta}\frac{\partial^{2} f}{\partial \psi^{2}} \right) \end{equation*}