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Visual Schrödinger: A Visualizer-Solver Applet for the One-Dimensional
Schrödinger Equation
Kevin Schmidt
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287
Michael A. Lee
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242
This Web-based applet numerically solves
the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation for a variety of
standard Hamiltonians and permits users to define their own
potential functions and rapidly display the results.
The first time user may
go directly to the applet
and,
with the brief introduction, try a few typical problems.
After the initial orientation,
investigation of more detailed
example problems
should prove illuminating.
We include sections giving more
documentation
on advanced techniques, numerical methods and future direction,
and discuss our design
philosophy
and goals.
The applet has been designed primarily as a
pedagogical tool.
This applet was prepared using freely available software tools.
It is written in (almost) pure Java under Linux, with documentation
written directly in latex and HTML.
The applet is
provided with a
license that permits redistribution.
The documentation is also available in a printable form as either source
files in a tar archive
Schroedingerdoc.tar, postscript
Schrodingerdoc.ps
or Adobe PDF file
Schroedingerdoc.pdf
if you prefer a printed copy.
To build the documentation from the source
you will need LATEX2e, including the makeidx and graphicx packages and
LATEX2HTML.
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Michael A. Lee and Kevin E. Schmidt
July 1, 2000