Re: Schrodinger equation origins

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

RESUBMITTED:

Perhaps
http://www.kw.igs.net/~jackord/bp/i4.html
will help.

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (Em)
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor/
trebor@velocity.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Smith" <larry.smith@SNOW.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:34 PM
Subject: Schrodinger equation origins


> One of my intro Modern Physics texts says regarding the genesis (origin)
of
> the Schrodinger wave equation "Like the classical wave equation, the
> Schrodinger equation relates the time and space derivatives of the wave
> function.  Schrodinger's reasoning is somewhat difficult to follow and is
> not important for our purposes.  In any case, the Schrodinger equation
> cannot be derived, just as Newton's laws of motion cannot be derived."
>
> Can the list give me a sense of Schrodinger's line of reasoning in
> developing his wave equation?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry