Quantum mechanics lecture No 1

IBRAR AHMAD BS physics

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Abdul wali khan university mardan
 1.1 The wave function
 The quantity with
which Quantum
Mechanics is
concerned is the
wave function of a
body.
 Wave function, ψ is a
quantity associated
with a moving
particle. It is a
complex quantity.
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 Born's statistical interpretation
• |Ψ|2 is proportional to the probability of finding a
particle at a particular point at a particular time. It
is the probability density.
2
 x ,t   

• ψ is the probability amplitude

• probabilty is the area under the graph of ψ2
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  x , t dx   
a