Timeline for If a non-interacting particle behaves like an undamped wave, can an interacting particle behave like a damped wave?
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| Oct 15 at 8:13 | comment | added | Paul Kolk | Yes. I know. I haven't studied this at school nor under the guidance of a teacher. Many sources online make attempts to take the crystal structure into account, but fail to do so accurately. If textbooks are different, maybe help me find a good one. | |
| Oct 15 at 0:24 | comment | added | naturallyInconsistent | That's not even taking the crystal structure into account. It says so in the text accompanying the table on Wiki. You are being ridiculous. | |
| Oct 14 at 19:18 | comment | added | Paul Kolk | "...remarkably good approximations nonetheless" Depends on which solid and what temperature. Not always good. | |
| Oct 14 at 19:02 | comment | added | Paul Kolk | The closest thing to a standard textbook that I found is this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… . The results do not match experiments. Is there a better theory somewhere. | |
| Oct 14 at 15:06 | comment | added | naturallyInconsistent | "Because I haven't seen an example that captures things like electronic specific heat" just open a standard textbook. It is always there. "may be easier to calculate without waves" yes, surely wrong stuff may be easier to calculate, but in physics we care about approximating reality close enough. "I'm asking whether it has been done already." The very wording of "Only for..." implies that it had already been done. | |
| Oct 14 at 11:03 | comment | added | Paul Kolk | "Only for particle decay and creation." That's the point. To model interacting particles as if they were created and consumed by thermal energy. I'm asking whether it has been done already. | |
| Oct 14 at 10:59 | comment | added | Paul Kolk | "Why would we abandon perfectly good stuff?" Because some properties may be easier to calculate without waves. | |
| Oct 14 at 10:56 | comment | added | Paul Kolk | "Why do you think we would have difficulties with the boundary conditions?" Because I haven't seen an example that captures things like electronic specific heat in all sorts of solids, regardless of how complex their structure. Of course, I may be wrong. | |
| Oct 14 at 4:35 | history | answered | naturallyInconsistent | CC BY-SA 4.0 |