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"All wave functions which represent real particles must be normalisable," We should note that this is true only for bound particles. Wavefunctions of scattered particles (e.g. unbound) can be periodic (at least asymptotically) over all space and never decay even for r-> infinity. In that case other normalization techniques must be used, such as confinement to a box or dirac delta normalization.


220.245.212.40 (talk) 06:44, 3 March 2009 (UTC) Um... someone who knows what to do needs to correct the equations. From the bold, red text I think there is an error... 220.245.212.40 (talk) 06:44, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is this article needed?

I strongly question the need for this article. Everything has been recently covered in the wavefunction article. This is a very short re-hash of one-dimensional cases. Should it be deleted, or merged with wavefunction, or the other way round? spill all normalization context from wavefunction to here?--Maschen (talk) 17:03, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

yes - for reasons below-- F = q(E + v × B) 07:52, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Normalization formulae

See here.-- F = q(E + v × B) 07:52, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]