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Ok, I feel stupid now. I was going to ask why should this apply on the boundary, since if the wave function was undefined outside this then the continuous/smooth condition couldn't be added, but one of the postulates is that the wave function is defined everywhere. Thanks for the responses.

Ok, so it's an axiom, thanks. I got the impression from my lecturer that the continutity conditions should make sense physically, like that it should be obvious that a wavefunction is smooth and continuous, but it wasn't making any sense like that to me. And of course, quantum tunneling...

I had a search for an answer but I turned up nothing, if this has been covered before could someone point me in the right direction? To the question. I'm studying QM at the moment but I'm having trouble with two of the postulates. Is the constraint that the wavefunction must be continuous...