Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
1995
Journal/Book/Conference Title
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume
18
DOI of Original Publication
10.1155/S0161171295000524
Date of Submission
September 2014
Abstract
The transformations to diagonalize potential energy matrices for coupled harmonic oscillators will also diagonalize the variance when written in matrix form. After a brief review of a geometrical interpretation of the variance, the transformations are described and an example is given.
Rights
Copyright © 1995 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Is Part Of
VCU Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Publications
Comments
Originally published at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171295000524