Proving Behavior of Particle in Infinite Potential: Wave Function?

[loversphisics]

Hello, guys! I have a question. How can I prove the behavior of a particle subjected to an infinite potential? Will the wave function exist?

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to PF.

Hello, guys! I have a question. How can I prove the behavior of a particle subjected to an infinite potential? Will the wave function exist?

Do you mean like a particle in a box? A particle in an infinite potential well? Can you be more specific? Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_in_a_box

 

[loversphisics]

Welcome to PF.Do you mean like a particle in a box? A particle in an infinite potential well? Can you be more specific? Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_in_a_box

Yes! It´s like a particle in a box. Do you how can i describe the wave function to this exemple ? Where do i start to solve this question ?

 

[berkeman]

Yes! It´s like a particle in a box. Do you how can i describe the wave function to this exemple ? Where do i start to solve this question ?

Did you read the Wikipedia link that I posted? That should answer your question pretty well.

 

[loversphisics]

Did you read the Wikipedia link that I posted? That should answer your question pretty well.

IMG! I hadn't seen the link above. I'll read it and anything I'll come here. Thank you very much.

 

[edmund cavendish]

Wave functions are interesting. Even more so their collapse.

 

[jtbell]

Another common term for this situation is "infinite square well." If you Google for this phrase you will find many lecture notes about it. I think almost every introduction to quantum mechanics by way of Schrödinger's equation starts with this example.

 

[vanhees71]

Yes, and almost any introduction hides the subtle problems of this only apparently simple example. E.g., you cannot define a momentum operator but its square (and thus the Hamiltonian used to define the model)...