At the beginning of the twentieth century, experimental evidence
suggested that atomic particles were also wave-like in nature. For
example, electrons were found to give diffraction patterns when
passed through a double slit in a similar way to light waves.
Therefore, it was reasonable to assume that a wave equation could
explain the behaviour of atomic particles.
Schrodinger was the first person to write down such a wave
equation. Much discussion then centred on what the equation meant.
The eigenvalues (solutions) of the wave equation were shown to be
equal to the energy levels of the quantum mechanical system, and
the best test of the equation was when it was used to solve for the
energy levels of the Hydrogen atom, and the energy levels were
found to be in accord with Rydberg’s Law.
It was initially much less obvious what the wavefunction of the
equation was. After much debate, the wavefunction is now accepted
to be a probability distribution. The Schrodinger equation is used
to find the allowed energy levels of quantum mechanical systems
(such as atoms, or transistors). The associated wavefunction gives
the probability of finding the particle at a certain position.
Considering a complex plane wave:
Now the Hamiltonian of a system is
Where ‘V’ is the potential energy and ‘T’ is the kinetic energy. As we already know that ‘H’ is the total energy, we can rewrite the equation as:
Now taking the derivatives,
We know that,
where ‘λ’ is the wavelength and ‘k’ is the wavenumber.
We have
Therefore,
Now multiplying Ψ (x, t) to the Hamiltonian we get,
The above expression can be written as:
We already know that the energy wave of a matter wave is written as
So we can say that
Now combining the right parts, we can get the Schrodinger Wave Equation.
The solution to this equation is a wave that describes the
quantum aspects of a system. However, physically interpreting the
wave is one of the main philosophical problems of quantum
mechanics.
The solution to the equation is based on the method of Eigen Values
devised by Fourier. This is where any mathematical function is
expressed as the sum of an infinite series of other periodic
functions. The trick is to find the correct functions that have the
right amplitudes so that when added together by superposition they
give the desired solution.
So, the solution to Schrondinger’s equation, the wave function for
the system, was replaced by the wave functions of the individual
series, natural harmonics of each other, an infinite series.
Shrodinger has discovered that the replacement waves described the
individual states of the quantum system and their amplitudes gave
the relative importance of that state to the whole system.
Schrodinger’s equation shows all of the wave like properties of
matter and was one of greatest achievements of 20th century
science.
It is used in physics and most of chemistry to deal with problems
about the atomic structure of matter. It is an extremely powerful
mathematical tool and the whole basis of wave mechanics.
The Schrodinger equation is the name of the basic non-relativistic wave equation used in one version of quantum mechanics to describe the behaviour of a particle in a field of force. There is the time dependant equation used for describing progressive waves, applicable to the motion of free particles. And the time independent form of this equation used for describing standing waves.
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