Timeline for Are energy eigenfunctions of a particle in one dimensional box orthogonal to each other?
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| Jun 29, 2023 at 17:51 | comment | added | hft | I hate it when that happens :) | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 17:11 | comment | added | Dinesh Katoch | Thank you very much. I was stuck at this for 2 hours. | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 17:09 | vote | accept | Dinesh Katoch | ||
| Jun 29, 2023 at 17:05 | comment | added | hft | You need to integrate over the length of the box to get the inner product, which your book is not doing. Your book is just multiplying $\Psi(t=0,x)$ times $\Psi(t=0,x)^*$. See my answer. | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 17:00 | answer | added | hft | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 16:16 | comment | added | Dinesh Katoch | They are said to be eigen states of Hamiltonian. | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 16:14 | comment | added | Ofek Gillon | Is it given in the book that the two $\Phi$ functions are indeed eigenmodes? Or are they just general functions? | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 15:48 | history | asked | Dinesh Katoch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |