From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Tue Apr 13 2004 - 19:27:04 MDT
[hkhenson] Worse yet non-linear partial differential equations. There is an amusing thing about non-linear PDEs. If you solve one, they name it after you.
[rhinoceros] Heh, true. But non-linear equations do not belong in quantum physics -- at least they didn't when I was at school.
As far as I remember, the principle of superposition, which allows you to combine wavefunctions, demands linear equations or else it does not apply.
Non-linear partial differential equations are more common in thermodynamics, I think.
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