On Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 11:21:28 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote:
Since my graduate notes are presently inaccessible, I will likely have some errors in what I am about to write. IIUC, we can use S's eqn with known boundary conditions to calculate the wf for a particular system. This wf is a mathematical function. Then, to get a probability for measuring a particular eigenvalue, we must take the inner product of this function with another function, the superposition of states, to get a real value less than one. But since this superposition has unknown, complex, multiplicative factors for each eigenfunction in its sum, how can we get a probability value from this procedure? How can the possible eigenvalues be determined? What is my misconception in the process of calculating probabilities in QM? TY, AG I will check Dirac's book on QM this evening to determine how it's done. AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9995ead4-0da6-4c76-a3b9-dc769bd508f2n%40googlegroups.com.
