Graduate student misunderstandings of wave functions in an asymmetric well

Quantum mechanics is a notoriously counterintuitive subject within physics and has been the subject of a number of studies at the undergraduate level, and a few pioneering studies at the graduate level. The sketching of wave functions in a confining well is in one sense one of the most basic activit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: C. D. Porter, A. F. Heckler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2019-06-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010139