Question

In a 1942 paper, Dirac claimed that negative energy and negative this quantity are not nonsense and are mathematically well-defined like negative money. For a spin-0 particle, the current of this quantity is equal to (read slowly) h-bar over 2-m-i (15[1])times psi-star-del-psi (15[1])minus psi-del-psi-star. Application of the WKB (-5[1])approximation to a free particle (*) wavefunction gives a nonzero value to this quantity in classically (10[1])forbidden regions. Born’s rule set the square norm of the (10[1])wavefunction amplitude as this quantity. QBism is an interpretation of Quantum Mechanics which uses a subjective Bayesian account of this quantity. This quantity over all space (10[1])for a normalized wavefunction is equal to one. For 10 points, identify this quantity that gives the chance of observing a particle in (10[1])a particular (0[1])state. ■END■

ANSWER: probability [or probability density]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Forrest WeintraubColumbia ACornell A3915
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay ARIT4115
Ethan AbelevJHU BSwarthmore47-5
Geoffrey WuColumbia BCornell B6210
David BassJHU AUMD B7210
Isaac MamelUMD ARutgers9810
Danny PeelenPittNYU12110
Alex ShiSwarthmoreJHU B1230

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y367%0%67%122.50
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y786%29%14%72.17
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%100%0%37.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%99.67
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y580%20%40%68.25
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%25%0%70.75
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y3100%33%0%66.33
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%102.00