Question

What is the physical interpretation of the wave function? How is this quantity obtained and once known, how may it be used?

Why is the wave function normalized?

What is meant by the "expectation value" of a dynamical variable?

What is degeneracy?

What is the expectation value of the xx-momentum of a particle in a box of dimension LL on each side?

What assumption enabled the description of internal motion in spherical coordinates?

Answer 1

Answer:

The wave function, at a particular time, contains all the information that anybody at that time can have about the particle. But the wave function itself has no physical interpretation. It is not measurable. However, the square of the absolute value of the wave function has a physical interpretation