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The Motion of Wave Packets: Fourier Analysis

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Quantum Mechanics

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Because we will need to work with wave packets of finite extent, it will be very useful to first give a brief review of Fourier analysis.

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Hecht, K.T. (2000). The Motion of Wave Packets: Fourier Analysis. In: Quantum Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1272-0_2

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