Physical significance of normalizing a wave function?

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In quantum mechanics what is the physical significance of normalizing a wave function?

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hi
in fact physical interpretation is statistical interpretation.this means sum of probability is 1 and we interpretated square of wawe function is probability of position.
 


The normalization is a consequence of the statistical content of wavefunctions. We normalize vectors to unity to keep a lot of formulas simpler, without the need to always divide vectors by their modulus.