Physics experts - Please help me describe the wave function to my students!

[Underclocked]

I dunno siccum, but why not just drop marbles into a large pale (surface area) or water until they ask you what you are doing? Waves for waves, hard to beat aren't they?

 

[thebestMAX]

OK, here we go-

I wasnt being funny before. No disrespect intended. You are teaching high school students, some bright some not.

The pea is a particle, you can see it, feel it and see how it acts when thrown.

The light bulb supplies the wave. Cant see it but it is there, cant feel it but you can see its effects in the form of the heat that it generates.

Pea on bulb - particle and wave interacting and proving existance of the other. They both act the same in that they affect each other. The principal is that they are both at the same time, each acting as the other. A leap of faith perhaps is involved in believing as a proton is a miniature pea.

A very simplistic answer and not quite right but a start. A very dfficult thing to grasp.

Add any math that you see fit. Have you talked about probability therory yet and the electron cloud?

Damn, I think Ill copyright this