Imaginary reality

[TIMOTHY WAGNER <twagner@ALLTEL.NET>]

As a retired teacher I cannot remember how the complex wave equation

y=Aexp(i[kx-wt]) was first encountered in my own education. Recently I

began to wonder how this would be introduced, anyway. Accepting the

necessity of its use in QM, I wanted to ask how teachers today related

this complex _expression_ to mind's-eye reality early in the educational

process, or whether they would simply show the concept as a math tool

to have practical applications later.

                                                    respectfully,       Tim Wagner