Investigating and improving student understanding of the probability distributions for measuring physical observables in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/AA57D1MaRDI QIDQ5270263zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emily Marshman, Chandralekha Singh

Publication date 23 June 2017

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aa57d1

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac notationinstructional materialslearningquantum mechanicsteaching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Physics, astronomy, technology, engineering (aspects of mathematics education) (97M50)

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