Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Topic for April 25 class.

For tomorrow's class we will start a new topic, which is free particle propagation and scattering.
This involves non-local states.


So far we have been dealing only with bound states, so this will be a change from what we have been covering and a new topic.  For free particles (V=0), the energy eigenstates tend to be of the form:
ψ(x)=eikx.
The energy vs k relationship takes the form:
Ek=2k2/(2m)

These states are also momentum eigenstates with momentum eigenvalue of k.
Anyway we will explore and learn more about these tomorrow.

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