Introduction to Quantum Mechanics · Problem 3.31

Formalism — David J. Griffiths

Physics — Quantum Mechanics · legendre_polynomials

Problem

Legendre polynomials. Use the Gram–Schmidt procedure (Problem A.4) to orthonormalize the functions 11, xx, x2x^2, and x3x^3, on the interval −1≤x≤1-1 \le x \le 1. You may recognize the results—they are (apart from normalization) Legendre polynomials (Problem 2.64 and Table 4.1).

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