Commutative free particle time evolution

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Homework Statement



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Homework Equations



i know schrödingher eq. and basic quantum formula

The Attempt at a Solution



i showed that the equality at the first question but i can not start from (a) part. how and where am i supposed to start for (a) part of question?
 
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i even don't know what is the time evoluation of varience? what is that?
 
Forget quantum mechanics for a second. From basic statistics, if x is a random variable, its variance is ##\sigma^2 = E[(x-\bar{x})^2]##, where ##\bar{x}=E(x)##. Now how does this translate into quantum mechanics? It should be clear how the first part of the problem then applies to solving (a).
 
thank you for your answer. now i am trying that

\frac{dψ}{dt} = \frac{iħ}{2m} d2ψ/dx2

after that i find that; (i send dt to right side)

ψ = ∫ \frac{iħ}{2m} d2ψ/dx2 dt

but i don't know how can i take the integral of right side?

after that i will use the <x> = ∫ψ* x ψ

is that true?
 
I have no idea what you're doing.
 
me too. I am very confused. can you just tell me how can i find <x(t)> and <x(t)^2>
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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