A central feature of all of these activities is the use of color to plot the probability density as a function on which the particle actually lives. Many students, at this stage in their development, are still not asking what the “vertical” axis means. When we use conventional graphs, that depict wavey graphs, students tend to interpret them as the particle waving back and forth physically in space. (Insert reference.) Trust us. This is what you really need to try.


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