I think that's the answer to my question, and I'm taking it as the "right" answer unless anyone has any objections. Thank you all for your time, and for giving me some valuable info beyond what I asked for or expected.
Sorry, I think I might need to be less sloppy with my words. When I think of a wavefunction, I think of it as a graphed function like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_packet#mediaviewer/File:Wave_function_of_a_Gaussian_state_moving_at_constant_momentum.gif .Which I guess might not be the...
Thank you for the valuable information (I didn't know particle-wave duality was dead). But my question isn't about particle-wave duality. I only brought up how my textbook explained it so I could trace back my line of thought and make it easier for people to point out where I went wrong. What...
Title basically says it all. I'm a physics undergrad trying to wrap my head around quantum physics, and I was hoping people here could help. My question comes from something in one of my textbooks. It tries to explain particle-wave duality through a piece of string, which I'll quickly go over as...