Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 ib Paper 2 18A Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 35D a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For a wave incident from the left, define the reflection and transmission amplitudes byReflection invariance gives the same amplitudes for incidence from the right. If the incoming amplitudes from the left and right are ordered first, and the outgoing amplitudes toward the left and right second, the One-dimensional S-matrix is
For , the wavefunction is continuous and its derivative has the jumpThe scattering ansatz givesWithwe obtain the scattering by a delta potential amplitudesThey satisfyThereforeso the scattering matrix is unitary.