Dirac Notation Interpreter
WWW location: http://www.fi.uib.no/AMOS/matlab/
KEYWORDS: Physics, Education, Quantum Mechanics, Command Interpreter
This document is a short presentation of the Dirac notation
interpreter in Matlab.
This is an update on October 2nd 1995 .
Construction of Dirac Interpreter is now in progress for Maple and Mathematica.
Text on the Dirac Notation Interpreter
Motivation
The excellent abilities of the modern integrated systems
including Matlab, Mathematica and Maple are often difficult to
exploit in teaching because of the specialized command languages and
special syntax rules. It takes too much time to learn
the language before a simple concept can be demonstrated.
This project shows that it is possible to develop interpreters in the
command languge, which interpret a syntax presumably known to
the students. Matlab has an excellent character-string processing repertoir,
so that the interpreter was relatively easily developed.