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### Accidental degeneracy in Hydrogen Energies [duplicate]

The energy of Hydrogen electron ground state should depend on $n$ and $\ell$, but it only depends on $n$. What is the reason behind this accidental degeneracy; I know that the reason lies in symmetry; ...
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### What symmetry operation mixes states with different $\ell$ in hydrogen atom? [duplicate]

We can mix states with different $m$ in hydrogen atom by rotating it around some axis (not coinciding with $z$). Thus rotation is the symmetry operation which mixes states with different $m$. As ...
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### Is there a kind of Noether's theorem for the Hamiltonian formalism?

The original Noether's theorem assumes a Lagrangian formulation. Is there a kind of Noether's theorem for the Hamiltonian formalism?
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### Invariance of Lagrangian in Noether's theorem

Often in textbooks Noether's theorem is stated with the assumption that the Lagrangian needs to be invariant $\delta L=0$. However, given a lagrangian $L$, we know that the Lagrangians $\alpha L$ (...
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### Show that the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector is conserved using poisson brackets

(I realise similar Phys.SE questions already exist but there is no answer with the Poisson bracket notation, I'll take this down if someone lets me know I should have commented in the existing ...
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### Physical implication of conservation of Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector

I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector. Conservation of momentum can be visualized as an object moving in a straight line with constant speed. One can even visualize ...
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### What operator lowers the total angular momentum?

Assume states $|j,m\rangle$, say $j\in\{3,2,1,0\}$, initially at $3$. Is there any "lowering" operator I could apply such that $L_-|j,m\rangle = |j-1,m\rangle$? How to express it in the $J_z$ ...
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### Showing The Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector (per unit mass) is constant

Given an inverse square law $\ddot{\vec{r}}=-\frac{\mu}{r^2}\hat{r}$, I define the Angular momentum per unit mass as $\vec{H}=\vec{r}\times\dot{\vec{r}}$. Showing it's constant is strightfoward. Then ...
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### Feynman's Lost Lecture: what is the significance of $\frac{d\mathfrak{v}}{d\theta}=-\frac{GMm}{\left|\mathfrak{L}\right|}\hat{\mathfrak{r}}?$

My question pertains to a fact used by Richard Feynman in his so-called Lost Lecture. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Feynmans-Lost-Lecture/. I have only skimmed the book, so I have much more to learn ...
### Why are some symmetries invisible to the configuration space Lagrangian $L(q, \dot q,t)$?
Usually, when people talk about Lagrangians they are talking about a function of configuration space variables $q_i$ and their time derivatives $\dot q_i$. This is a function $L = L(q_i, \dot q_i,t)$. ...
I have been trying to understand the Legendre transformation (in mechanics, in the hyperregular case: when the Legendre transformation is one-to-one) and the correspondence between symmetry $\to$ ...