Now You Understand What A Quantum Wavefunction Is

Particles in quantum mechanics are described by a wavefunction, but what actually is it? Here’s a 3 minute explanation which explains what they are and shows visualizations of what they look like. Overall the wavefunction is a mathematical tool which keeps track of all of the properties of a quantum particle, and explains our observations of the probabilistic nature of where particles appear when we do experiments on them. From the wavefunction we can calculate all of the observables like position, momentum, energy or spin, by applying mathematical operators on it. So in quantum physics, the wavefunction encodes all of the information about the quantum system, and valid wavefunctions are solutions to the Schrodinger equation which I covered in my last video which you can watch here https://youtu.be/AR23uxZruhE #quantum #physics #DoS --- Posters ---- DFTBA Store: https://store.dftba.com/collections/domain-of-science RedBubble Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/DominicWalliman I have also made posters available for educational use which you can find here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/95869671@N08/ -- Some Awesome People --- And many thanks to my $10 supporters on Patreon, you are awesome! Theodore Chu Petr Murmak Sebastian Eric Epstein Alex Polo Kevin Delaney Reggie Fourmyle Mark Pickenheim Raj Duphare Terrence Masson Robert M Milano Join the gang and help support me produce free and high quality science content: https://www.patreon.com/domainofscience --- My Science Books ---- I also write science books for kids called Professor Astro Cat. You can see them all here: http://profastrocat.com --- Follow me around the internet --- http://dominicwalliman.com https://twitter.com/DominicWalliman https://www.instagram.com/dominicwalliman --- Credits --- Music, art, and everything else by Dominic Walliman


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