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I've read conflicting definitions of what happens to the force between quarks as they're pulled apart. Do the gluon tubes form to maintain a constant force between them, or does the force actually increase as the distance between quarks increase? Is there an easily defined potential between the...

I've been reading an article that refers to the distance of a fermi. What is this in SI units? A google search isn't proving fruitful. Cheers!

I'm struggling to get to grips with the idea that quarks cannot be observed as isolated particles due to confinement and yet existed as free particles during an early epoch after the big bang. Surely quarks aren't actually confined if they can exist at high enough energies. In fact aren't...

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psi(x) = 3phi_0(x) + 4phi_1(x) => [psi(x)]^2 = [3phi_0(x) + 4phi_1(x)]^2 => [9(phi_0(x))^2 + 12phi*_0(x)phi_1(x) + 12phi_0(x)phi*_1(x) + 16(phi_1(x))^2 Is this right? When I integrate with limits +-infinity does it give 9+0+0+16?

I've got the equation for normalising a wavefunction; one over the square root of the wavefunction squared. = (\int[3\phi0(x) + 4\phi1(x)]2)1/2 = I still get \sqrt{1/49} when I should be getting \sqrt{1/25}; I think I'm squaring the function wrong. The coefficients I get upon squaring...

1. At a certain time the wavefunction of a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator is \psi(x) = 3\phi0(x) + 4\phi1(x) where \phi0(x) and \phi1(x) are normalized energy eigenfunctions of the ground and first excited states respectively. Normalize the wavefunction and determine the probability...