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What eigenvectors and eigenvalues are and why they are interesting

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  • These videos are very helpful and I appreciate you putting them up. But can you make one slight improvement? Can you put links in the videos (through annotations) that links this video to the preceding one and the following one, so that we know what came before and what will follow? It is a little confusing to find out which videos came before or after one another. If not directly in the video, how about in the description? Thanks!

  • Once again,many thanks for your videos you are doing a great job!

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  • My biggest problem with math education on youtube... is that if I want it in coherent English, its usually trivial fifth-grade material. If I want advanced subject matter, its in bastardized Hindiglish. I like Sal because he makes sense.

  • @imamnalog: One important, practical meaning is that Eigenvalues in the time independent form of the wave equation represent the binding energies of an electron in a Hydrogen atom at a given value called "n." This is in fact where we get the quantum numbers values for "n." They basically fall out of the Eigenvalue solutions.

  • OMG!!!!!!! This guy is always saving my life!!!! I got through Single Variable Calculus, Vector Calculus, Differential Equations, and now Linear Algebra with this guy making things easier than my professors at my University ever could. That's usually because I can't understand thier accent in a large echo-y hall.

  • Wow, thank you so much for putting up these videos! You teach it much better than my lin alg prof, who never once explained the geometric meaning of eigenvectors/values

  • Ok . . . and what's the practical meaning of these eigenvalues in Schrodinger's equation ? ? ?

  • @HunterDX77M It's on the site

  • Lin Alg Joke!

    What do you call an eigen-sheep?

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    A LAMB! DUH!

  • Thanks

  • I'm grateful that you took the time to make these instructional videos. But seriously, I can not get my head around linear algebra. It's so difficult. Still, I have a test in 3 weeks. These videos help a bit.

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