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Verifying the results of stationary phase

Locate (and explain how you located) the position of the maximum of the envelop as a function of time tex2html_wrap_inline293 . Show explicitly for this case that the result we demonstrated in class

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is correct.

Finally, how the ``width'' of your wave packet (defined as the length of the range in space over which the envelope function has more than one-half of its maximum value) grows as a function of time t.



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Thu Feb 13 14:11:24 EST 1997