What does it mean to normalize a wave function?

arcoon · Sep 25, 2014

Printed homework problems a) and b) asking to normalize wavefunctions: a) psi(r) = (r/a0) e^(-2(r/a0)^2) for r from 0 to infinity; b) psi(r) = (r/2a0) e^(-r/2a0) for r from 0 to infinity.

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Printed text reading: Normalize the function psi = a e^(-bx) in the interval 0 ≤ x ≤ ∞, where a and b are constants.

I am trying to learn the subject. Please help me to this questions!

vanhees71 · Sep 25, 2014

Write down what it means to "normalize a wave function". The homework template of this forum is a very ingenious invention to make you start solving your problem in a systematic way and the forum rules, which enforce that you fill all the three sections of the template, is a clever way to make you start at all!

What does it mean to normalize a wave function?

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