2015/09/14 by Chandralekha Singh, Singh, Chandralekha, Emily Marshman +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #physics.ed-ph #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1509.04081
arxiv created 2015/09/14 · arxiv updated 2016/02/18
We have been investigating the difficulties that students in upper-level undergraduate courses have in determining the probability distribution for measuring energy and position as a function of time when the initial wave function is explicitly given. We administered written free-response and multiple-choice questions to investigate these difficulties. We find that students have common difficulties with these concepts. We discuss some of the findings.