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Hydrogen Atom - eigenstate and operators

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gruni1:
Hi,

I've a question for my exercise in PC because I don't understand what I have to do for this question.
A hydrogen atom can be found in a s-p hybrid orbital state like:
l?> = 1/21/2  {   l?200> l+>   +   l?210> l->   }.
I don't understand and I don't know what I have to do when they ask :"Check wether this state is an eigenstate for the next operators: Ê, L2, Sz, S2 (L2, Sz, S2 are operators).

Can somebody help me.

Thank you.

Dan

FeLiXe:
I don't understand what all your > and | are for

basically what you do to see if something is an eigenfunction of an operater is: you insert the function into the operator and see if you get the same function only with a constant factor maybe.

e.g. the energy is given by the Hamilton operator. Since it is linear it will work.

gruni1:
thank you for your reply
l > are coming from the bracket ecriture
Dan

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