Recent content by ESmithy

Thank you both, very much! Yes, I am starting to see now. :) That pretty much solves my problem.

Yes. OK. That is extremely interesting; There is a coefficient of each of the energy states -- say "a" and "b" which then are added as in: phi = a*S1 + b*S2; that determine the relative "amounts" of each state that an item is in. In none of my books is the "sampling" of a combined energy...

Good. That was bothering me -- for I know infinite energies are a problem in QCD, QED, with virtual photons (etc) and I wasn't sure if this was another instance of that just swept under the rug... Let me restate that to see if I am understanding you: Schrödinger's equation's solutions are...

I am having trouble understanding (not for homework) what a wave packet is in terms of the correspondence of the idea of a wave packet to a "point like" particle. I'd like to focus on the 1d wave packet ultimately, but in order to describe my consternation -- let me detour to a well defined...