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How and why to think about scattering in terms of wave packets instead of plane waves
Travis Norsen, Joshua Lande, S. B. McKagan
We discuss "the plane wave approximation" to quantum mechanical scattering using simple one-dimensional examples. The central points of the paper are that (a) plane waves should be…
Developing and Researching PhET simulations for Teaching Quantum Mechanics
S. B. McKagan, K. K. Perkins, M. Dubson +4
Quantum mechanics is difficult to learn because it is counterintuitive, hard to visualize, mathematically challenging, and abstract. The Physics Education Technology (PhET) Project…
Why we should teach the Bohr model and how to teach it effectively
S. B. McKagan, K. K. Perkins, C. E. Wieman
Some education researchers have claimed that we should not teach the Bohr model of the atom because it inhibits students' ability to learn the true quantum nature of electrons in a…
Multiconfigurational Hartree-Fock theory for identical bosons in a double well
D. Masiello, S. B. McKagan, W. P. Reinhardt
Multiconfigurational Hartree-Fock theory is presented and implemented in an investigation of the fragmentation of a Bose-Einstein condensate made of identical bosonic atoms in a do…