Thank you for explaining why we take the integral of the Schroedinger equation!! I was quite confused when reading Griffiths, but it makes so much sense now!!
The Schrödinger equation freaked me out the first time I saw it - I guess partly because of the imaginary number, and the weird Ψ notation - but it became surprisingly fun to work with when I actually started seeing some of these applications.
I have one question. My lecturer says that for bound states, the sign of the curvature of the wave function has to be the same as the sign of the wavefunction itself. In your graph, the wavefunction is negative, i.e. below the x axis, yet the curvature is positive. Could you clarify that point please?
@@NickHeumannUniversity sorry yes, the graph is at the very end of the video at 31:30. Edit: I suppose what I'm asking is, should the graph be above the x-axis not below it?
@@NickHeumannUniversity yes but the wavefunction should be above the x-axis should it not? With the delta potential below it? Edit: i think I get it now, I was just confused because I'm used to seeing the wavefunction and potential superimposed with the wavefunction above the x axis and the delta potential below. Thanks for your help!
Can you explain why the energy has to be negative in order for the particle to be in a bound state near the origin? If the potential at that point tends to negative infinity shouldn't any energy be considered to be less than it?
Thank you for explaining why we take the integral of the Schroedinger equation!! I was quite confused when reading Griffiths, but it makes so much sense now!!
The Schrödinger equation freaked me out the first time I saw it - I guess partly because of the imaginary number, and the weird Ψ notation - but it became surprisingly fun to work with when I actually started seeing some of these applications.
Very well explained, thank you so much for the video!
This is so helpful thank you so much.
Can you answer why we are getting dimension of k different from that of 1/ length
I have one question. My lecturer says that for bound states, the sign of the curvature of the wave function has to be the same as the sign of the wavefunction itself. In your graph, the wavefunction is negative, i.e. below the x axis, yet the curvature is positive. Could you clarify that point please?
It's been a while since I did this video, can you timestamp the moment you are asking about please?
@@NickHeumannUniversity sorry yes, the graph is at the very end of the video at 31:30.
Edit: I suppose what I'm asking is, should the graph be above the x-axis not below it?
@@Grellan_L In that graph the y axis is the energy! So if we have bound states, then E
@@NickHeumannUniversity yes but the wavefunction should be above the x-axis should it not? With the delta potential below it?
Edit: i think I get it now, I was just confused because I'm used to seeing the wavefunction and potential superimposed with the wavefunction above the x axis and the delta potential below. Thanks for your help!
good video.
Can you explain why the energy has to be negative in order for the particle to be in a bound state near the origin? If the potential at that point tends to negative infinity shouldn't any energy be considered to be less than it?
We dont consider potential at that point. It's the potential at x= infinity (here it's 0) which determines bount or scattering states.