A Particle in a Box
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About this simulation
Trap a particle between two walls and read off the standing waves it is allowed, the energies that go with them, and the places it is never found.
Taught in Quantum States & the Wavefunction
- wavefunction
- probability density
- energy quantisation
- nodes
How this runs
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