I am taking my second course in QM, and my head is starting to spin as it probably should. But I would very much like to clear up my head about a few details regarding the wave function. As I know it is impossible to predict where particles are and one can only give a probability of where it should be.
The simplest case is a "frictionless" particle "bouncing" back and forth inside a infinite square well. Eg a particle in the following potential
V(x)=(0 ,for 0≤x≤a∞ ,elsewhere) Which gives rise to the following normalized solution ψn(x)=√2asin(πnax) My problem is what the nodes in the square function represents. If I draw |Ψ2(x,0)|2=|ψ2(x)|2 I obtain a graph similar to the one below.
What is the physical explenation that finding the particle around a small region around a/2 is close to zero? Or why is it so much less likely to find it near a/2 than a/4? Eg why is P(a/2−ε≤X≤a/2+ε)=∫a/2+εa/2−ε|ψ2(x)|2dx∼0 for small ε
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