As threatened yesterday, another staged shot for a "quantum is difficult" image for an upcoming talk.
Some notes and caffeine.
This is a piece of a homework solution that was on a pad I had lying around-- those are infinite square well wavefunctions. It's about as trivial as you can get from quantum, but looks math-y enough to make the point I want to make.
The Pip is home sick again today, so that's about it for me.
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