Here’s a final scheduled post before I get back home later today. Spammers haven’t overrun my comments, I trust? Either way, consider this an open post to discuss whatever you wish if you’d like!
Until tomorrow, let’s contemplate the probability density for the Schroedinger solution of a bouncing ball in a fairly low excited state and compare it to the probability density for a classical bouncing ball, both normalized. Pretty, no?
3 responses so far ↓
1 Uncle Al // Jul 13, 2008 at 2:54 pm
(pi)^4 + (pi)^5 = Lim (1 + 1/n)^6n as n->infinity. It gets more exciting toward the end.
2 Carl Brannen // Jul 13, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Of course Uncle Al’s equality is not quite right, but the error is only 1 part in 23 million. Probably good enough for chemistry.
3 Uncle Al // Jul 14, 2008 at 10:38 am
I told you it gets exciting toward the end. 1% is good enough for chemistry. Order of magnitude is good enough for physics. “Wrong” is good enough for economics and string theory.
This is the government model. To quote Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. in Dr. Strangelove, “Aaaaaa hoooo! Waaaaa hooooo!”
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