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Hi,
I'm working through Griffiths' Introduction to QM, In the derivation for the expectation value of momentum, he uses that
\left( x \left. \left( \Psi^* \frac{\partial\Psi}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial \Psi^*}{\partial x}\Psi \right) \right) \right|_{-\infty}^{+\infty} = 0
Why is this so? It's easy to see that this is zero if the x weren't there, but I can't figure out why the limits are zero with the x in.
Thanks,
A_B
I'm working through Griffiths' Introduction to QM, In the derivation for the expectation value of momentum, he uses that
\left( x \left. \left( \Psi^* \frac{\partial\Psi}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial \Psi^*}{\partial x}\Psi \right) \right) \right|_{-\infty}^{+\infty} = 0
Why is this so? It's easy to see that this is zero if the x weren't there, but I can't figure out why the limits are zero with the x in.
Thanks,
A_B
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