written by Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian

The Position Carpet package is a self-contained file for the teaching of the time evolution and visualization of energy eigenstates and their superpositions via  quantum space-time diagrams or quantum carpets.  The file contains ready-to-run OSP programs and a set of curricular materials.  The material focuses on the wave function and the quantum carpet in position space.

The Position Carpet package is an Open Source Physics curricular package written for the teaching of quantum mechanics.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the osp_carpet.jar file will run the package if Java is installed.  Other quantum mechanics packages are also available.  They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or Quantum Mechanics.

• Download osp_carpet.jar - 2871kb Java Archive File

Last Modified May 30, 2008

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A pdf worksheet with all of the questions and exercises contained within the Position Carpet package.

• Download osp_qm_carpet.pdf - 144kb Adobe PDF Document

Published January 1, 2008
Last Modified March 20, 2010

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