Talk:Particle in a box

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 Definition:  A system in quantum mechanics used to illustrate important features of quantum mechanics, such as quantization of energy levels and the existence of zero-point energy. [d] [e]
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Do we need the 3D case?

I think this page is starting to approach complete, besides the currently empty sections on the 3D spherical and cubic wells. I believe that the cubic will isn't really needed, but what are people's thoughts on the spherical well? It is definitely important but perhaps a separate page for it would serve to keep this page simpler, as well as making it nearly done.

Michael Underwood 20:50, 4 July 2007 (CDT)

The simplest 3D case is a cube, which is worth treating here. The ball case is an exercise in spherical coordinates, maybe better suited for a different article. What I would like to do here is to make an animation of the probability density of a simple non-stationary state. /Pieter Kuiper 04:13, 23 October 2007 (CDT)
I agree, I was getting ready to move the spherical well to its own page anyway and have now done so. Michael Underwood 14:31, 23 October 2007 (CDT)
Excellent. I made the animation that I was thinking of, and I put it in below your image, but that is probably not the best place. Of course one should write an explanation, but I do not have the time now. /Pieter Kuiper 17:36, 23 October 2007 (CDT)

Readability

Not sure what the 'accessibility' test is for maths articles so I apologise if the following comments seem ridiculously simple and silly - I did A-level pure and applied maths 20 odd years ago, but that's when I said goodbye to calculus and 'hard sums'. There's a few instances of acronyms that aren't explained or linked to which I found made the article presuppose quite a bit of knowledge, nothing too testing - I put (1D) in brackers after one-dimensional to aid reading for non-mathematicians such as myself. Is an ODE some kind of differential equation? perhaps we could spell it out in the first instance and contract it for later instances? --Russ McGinn 17:44, 23 October 2007 (CDT)

Russ, ODE is indeed some kind of DE. It stands for ordinary differential equation. Thanks for pointing that out; I've changed it in the text. You mention "a few instances" - do you have any other input on how the article reads in general or sections that aren't as clear as they could be, or did you already list them all?
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