Can Classical Physics Explain the Infinite Potential Well in Quantum Mechanics?

[v_pino]

I've been told about the infinite potential well using quantum-mechanics, with mathematical proof. Is there any websites I can look at to understand this theory with less math, but instead, with a theoratical approach? Would classical-physics be able to describe this result?

thanks

 

[Andy Resnick]

The concept of an infinite potential is taken to simply mean an impenetrable boundary.

 

[v_pino]

How come for some points in the 'well', the probability of finding a particle is zero?

 

[Defennder]

For which points in the well is the probability of finding the particle zero? Are you referring to the points corresponding to the walls of the well?

 

[Andy Resnick]

A particle in an infinitely deep potential well is a very simple concept (well, mathematically simple...) and is a simplification of many actual things- laser cavities (or any resonant cavity), for example.

What I suspect you are asking about is that your example shows a standing wave- you have a square-bottomed well?