Particles travel in wavepackets, they are typically localized to pretty small regions.
This doesn't make sense to me - I didn't think anything other than a perfect sinusoid or exponential was a solution to the equation, so I don't understand how these wavepackets work. Is it only because actual particles are always in the presence of a potential field of some sort?
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Date: 2010-09-16 12:02 am (UTC)This doesn't make sense to me - I didn't think anything other than a perfect sinusoid or exponential was a solution to the equation, so I don't understand how these wavepackets work. Is it only because actual particles are always in the presence of a potential field of some sort?