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calculate the transmission coefficient
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What does the graph say? what's on the x and y axis?
The x axis is position. The y axis is energy. The blue box is a potential energy barrier. The red curve shows the wavefunction of a particle at a certain energy level coming in and tunneling through the wall. (the wavefunction actually live on a different y-scale from this plot and is only superimposed here for illustrative purpose, so don’t use the energy y-scale to read into the amplitude of the oscillatory part).
more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling
Sometimes I hate this community because, It makes me feel so dumb lol
Can you eli5 this for the dumb people in the room?
If anyone ever tells you that they understand quantum physics, punch them in the mouth and tell them they just got quantum pummeled.
Sorry, the wave function of my fist must have existed inside your head for a moment