Responsible party: Schrödinger's Dog, Devlin

Please try to include the following

• main points understood, and expand them - what is your understanding of what the points were.
  • expand these points by including many of the details the class discussed.
• main points which are not clear. - describe what you have understood and what the remain questions surrounding the point(s).
  • Other classmates can step in and clarify the points, and expand them.
• How the main points fit with the big picture of QM. Or what is not clear about how today's points fit in in a big picture.
• wonderful tricks which were used in the lecture.

The main points of today's lecture were:

• discussion and interpretation of many of the properties of quantum mechanics (i.e. <p>, <math>\Psi^*\Psi dx=P(x)dx</math>, etc…)
• Bohm's postulate and Yuchi's discussion on how Bohm's may have used classical ideas to come up with <math>\Psi^*\Psi dx=P(x)dx</math>
• Why we use <math>|\Psi|^2</math>, and not just <math>\Psi</math>, or some linear combination of <math>\Psi</math> for the probablity

*normalization for t=0 and how the normalization works for time t * How partial derivatives and ordinary derivatives are used and the justification of the equation <math> frac{d}{dt} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\Psi^*\Psi dx=<math>\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{}{}(\Psi^*\Psi)dx=0</math></math>