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Spreading of a wave packet

Rederive the result shown in class, that the minimum uncertainty in the position of a particle at time t grows as

Verify explicitly that this result holds exactly in the case of the wave packet in problem 2.4 (problem 4 of PS # 2) if we define as the distance from the center of the packet () to the point where the envelop decays to of its original value.



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Mon Feb 26 15:11:01 EST 1996