Quantum physics - created from Mind Map

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Amplitudes

Follows from max possible knowledge of system

Uncertainty

Universe in very real sense, unknowable

Wave Particle duality

Complex #'s

Heisenberg

E= ~hw, p=~hk; ~h = h/2pi

dx*dp \> h

Planck's length (h)

Waves

Particles

Individual particles unpredictable; lots of them follow statistical/ probabilistic laws

Feynman quote

exhibits different behavior at different frequencies

Wave eqation

Schroedinger Equations

Operators

A mapping between vectors; A vector function

hermitian

A linear vector operator

Hilbert Space

Complex-valued linear vector space