{"id":68275,"date":"2015-03-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=fa4be29797b4c6cd09380d332e261bb4"},"modified":"2015-03-27T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:00:00","slug":"a-mechanical-wave-system-to-show-waveforms-similar-to-quantum-mechanical-wavefunctions-in-apotential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=68275","title":{"rendered":"A mechanical wave system to show waveforms similar to quantum mechanical wavefunctions in a\r\npotential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interviews with students suggest that even though they understand the formalism and the formal<br \/>\nnature of quantum theory, they still often desire a mental picture of what the equations describe<br \/>\nand some tangible experience with the wavefunctions. Here we discuss a mechanical wave system<br \/>\ncapable of reproducing correctly a mechanical equivalent of a quantum system in a potential, and the<br \/>\nresulting waveforms in principle of any form. We have successfully reproduced the finite potential<br \/>\nwell, the potential barrier and the parabolic potential. We believe that these mechanical waveforms<br \/>\ncan provide a valuable experience base for introductory students to start from. We aim to show that<br \/>\nmechanical systems that are described with the same mathematics as quantum mechanical, indeed behave<br \/>\nin the same way. We believe that even if treated purely as a wave phenomenon, the system provides<br \/>\nmuch insight into wave mechanics. This can be especially useful for physics teachers and others who<br \/>\noften ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interviews with students suggest that even though they understand the formalism and the formal<br \/>\nnature of quantum theory, they still often desire a mental picture of what the equations describe<br \/>\nand some tangible experience with the wavefunctions. Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}