Quantum History
Wavefunctions/Operators
Particle in a Box
Potpourri
100
Principle describing the act of Measurement.

What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

100

Wavefunctions describe all the ___ information about a system.

What is dynamical information?

100

The energy of a particle in a box is this.

What is quantized?

100
When this is equal to 0, we can measure each observable to an arbitrary precision.

What is commutator?

200

Replacement for the Rayleigh-Jeans Law

What is the Planck distribution law for blackbody radiation?

200

Classical quantities are represented by this in quantum mechanics.

What are linear operators?

200

The number of nodes when n=6 for a particle in a box.

What is 5?

200

T+R

What is 1.

300

Effect for which Einstein won the Nobel.

What is the photoelectric effect?

300
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What is the momentum operator?

300

The method of taking the complex conjugate of a wavefunction and multiplying it by an operator, operating on the wavefunction, then taking the integral over the length of the boxes results in this.

What is expectation value or average value?

300

When n=m, this equals 1, otherwise 0.

What is the kronecker delta?

400

Formula accounting for the lines in hydrogen's atomic spectrum.

What is the Rydberg Formula?

400

The probability that a particle is found in a box being 1 leads to this concept.

What is normalization?

400

The degeneracy of energy levels of a 3-D particle in a box is caused by this.

What is symmetry?

400

22x * 2-x

What is 2x?

500

Catastrophe beyond the visible.

What is the ultraviolet catastrophe?

500

Wavefunctions must meet these properties to be considered physically acceptable.

What is that the wavefunction and its derivative must be single-valued, continuous, and finite.

500

The principle that allows us to treat each direction of the 3-D box distinctly.

What is separability?

500

These are not real.

What are orbitals?



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