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diff --git a/content/know/concept/time-dependent-perturbation-theory/index.pdc b/content/know/concept/time-dependent-perturbation-theory/index.pdc
index 1fbd9ce..76ab684 100644
--- a/content/know/concept/time-dependent-perturbation-theory/index.pdc
+++ b/content/know/concept/time-dependent-perturbation-theory/index.pdc
@@ -59,13 +59,13 @@ We then take the inner product with an arbitrary stationary basis state $\ket{m}
$$\begin{aligned}
0
- &= \sum_{n} \Big( \lambda c_n \matrixel{m}{\hat{H}_1}{n} - i \hbar \frac{d c_n}{dt} \braket{m}{n} \Big) \exp\!(- i E_n t / \hbar)
+ &= \sum_{n} \Big( \lambda c_n \matrixel{m}{\hat{H}_1}{n} - i \hbar \dv{c_n}{t} \braket{m}{n} \Big) \exp\!(- i E_n t / \hbar)
\end{aligned}$$
Thanks to orthonormality, this removes the latter term from the summation:
$$\begin{aligned}
- i \hbar \frac{d c_m}{dt} \exp\!(- i E_m t / \hbar)
+ i \hbar \dv{c_m}{t} \exp\!(- i E_m t / \hbar)
&= \lambda \sum_{n} c_n \matrixel{m}{\hat{H}_1}{n} \exp\!(- i E_n t / \hbar)
\end{aligned}$$
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ $\omega_{mn} \equiv (E_m - E_n) / \hbar$ to get:
$$\begin{aligned}
\boxed{
- i \hbar \frac{d c_m}{dt}
+ i \hbar \dv{c_m}{t}
= \lambda \sum_{n} c_n(t) \matrixel{m}{\hat{H}_1(t)}{n} \exp\!(i \omega_{mn} t)
}
\end{aligned}$$