The Kepler Problem (Part 4)

The Kepler problem is the study of a particle moving in an attractive inverse square force. In classical mechanics, this problem shows up when you study the motion of a planet around the Sun in the Solar System. In quantum mechanics, it shows up when you study the motion of an electron around a proton in a hydrogen atom.

In Part 2 we saw that the classical Kepler problem has, besides energy and the three components of angular momentum, three more conserved quantities: the components of the ecc...