Timeline for Why don't the De Broglie dispersion relation contain a constant term?
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| Jan 7, 2015 at 12:07 | vote | accept | Calmarius | ||
| Jan 6, 2015 at 17:40 | comment | added | PhotonBoom | @Calmarius, Phoenix87 above makes a good point. A constant energy term will affect nothing since only energy differences are physically meaningful. Hence why he said you can redefine the 0 point energy and just ignore the constant term. | |
| Jan 6, 2015 at 17:04 | comment | added | Calmarius | Then the question is: why only the kinetic energy? It's the smaller portion of the total energy of the particle. | |
| Jan 6, 2015 at 16:59 | history | answered | PhotonBoom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |