Collapsing the Wave

Alan A. Grometstein

Chapter Chapter 15 in The Roots of Things, 1999, pp 385-405 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Schrödinger’s equation took the world of physics by storm. There was nothing exotic about it. It was easy to manipulate: every mathematician and physicist had cut her teeth in college on differential equations. Physicists, young and old, classical and quantum mechanical, could squeeze the S-equation and make it disgorge wave functions. It was applied in its various forms to a multitude of experimental problems; the results were astonishingly good. True, most problems were so intricate that the equation could not be solved in closed form.’ Typically, a problem permitted only numerical solutions of differing degrees of approxima­tion; however, this is a common situation in numerical analysis. As aids to compu­tation became more sophisticated, these approximations improved. But the S-equation worked.

Keywords: Wave Packet; Random Element; Nobel Laureate; Matter Wave; Copenhagen Interpretation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4877-5_15

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