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    Graduate Rough Description of State Space

    Thank you for the clarification.
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    Graduate How observation leads to wavefunction collapse?

    When a photon interacts with an electron, it changes the electron's momentum.
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    Graduate Introduction to General Relativity

    Tensors (an essential topic to GR): http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/documents/Tensors_TM2002211716.pdf
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    Graduate Rough Description of State Space

    I have done only a small bit of reading/studying of quantum mechanics. So, from what I have gathered thus far, I have the following rough semi-graphical description of state space: Imagine a space in which you have a lot, but a definite number of discrete points. Each of those points (state...
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    Graduate Phase of an Amplitude Function

    Thank you very much for all the responses! They were very enlightening.
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    Graduate Phase of an Amplitude Function

    In Feynman's Lectures on Physics, he constantly refers to the phase when discussing quantum mechanical amplitudes, but does not elaborate on what the phase means physically (e.g. the way the square of the amplitude gives the probability of finding a particle somewhere). So, if someone can...