Assignment of eigenfunctions in the tunnelling case

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Video models of quantum tunnelling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PO-RHQsFA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfhAWZeEX78&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WEXTyCAQ18&feature=related

These are really three depictions of the same model.

A wave packet comes from the left, representing a momentum wave, which is
localized in space. A reasonable 1-D representation of such a wave would be Aeikx.

Notice how, when we approach the barrier, an oscillatory form is observed in a

region where the original wave Aeikx overlaps with a reflected wave moving in the
opposite direction: Be-ikx. The oscillation occurs because together the two waves
approximate a sinusoidal type of function and temporarily appear to set up a
standing wave.

Note how there is no oscillation away from the barrier, as there is only a single
wave at that point.
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