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    1) Find the nth stationary state of the harmonic oscillator and check the uncertainty principle. 2) Determine the normalization constant and probabilities for a particle in a potential that is zero between 0<x<L and infinite outside that range. Also find the expectation value for energy. 3) Calculate various quantities for a given spinor. 4) Prove several commutator identities involving position, momentum, and angular momentum operators. 5) Calculate the average time for protons and electrons to tunnel through a potential barrier of a given height and width. 6) Determine the minimum energy needed for particles obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics and indicate how states would be filled. 7)

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    1) Find the nth stationary state of the harmonic oscillator and check the uncertainty principle. 2) Determine the normalization constant and probabilities for a particle in a potential that is zero between 0<x<L and infinite outside that range. Also find the expectation value for energy. 3) Calculate various quantities for a given spinor. 4) Prove several commutator identities involving position, momentum, and angular momentum operators. 5) Calculate the average time for protons and electrons to tunnel through a potential barrier of a given height and width. 6) Determine the minimum energy needed for particles obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics and indicate how states would be filled. 7)

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    1) Find the nth stationary state of the harmonic oscillator and check the uncertainty principle. 2) Determine the normalization constant and probabilities for a particle in a potential that is zero between 0<x<L and infinite outside that range. Also find the expectation value for energy. 3) Calculate various quantities for a given spinor. 4) Prove several commutator identities involving position, momentum, and angular momentum operators. 5) Calculate the average time for protons and electrons to tunnel through a potential barrier of a given height and width. 6) Determine the minimum energy needed for particles obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics and indicate how states would be filled. 7)

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    Quantum Mechanics

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    1) Find the nth stationary state of the harmonic oscillator and check the uncertainty principle. 2) Determine the normalization constant and probabilities for a particle in a potential that is zero between 0<x<L and infinite outside that range. Also find the expectation value for energy. 3) Calculate various quantities for a given spinor. 4) Prove several commutator identities involving position, momentum, and angular momentum operators. 5) Calculate the average time for protons and electrons to tunnel through a potential barrier of a given height and width. 6) Determine the minimum energy needed for particles obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics and indicate how states would be filled. 7)

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    1) Find x , p , x and p for the nth stationary state of the harmonic oscillator
    and check that the uncertainty principle is satisfied.

    2) A particle is in a potential that is zero if 0 < x < L and infinite if x is less than zero
    or greater than L. The initial wave function of the particle is given by

    a)Is this a stationary state? Explain

    b) Determine the value of the normalization constant A.

    c) What will be the wave function at some later time t?

    d) What is the probability that the particle will be in Ψ 1? in Ψ 2? in Ψ 3? Ψ 4? Ψ 5?

    e) What is the expectation value for the energy?

    3) a) For the spinor

    , calculate the following .

    b) Calculate the following

    4) a) Prove the following commutator identity

    [ AB, C ] = A [ B, C ] + [ A, C ] B

    b) Show that  x , P  = ihnx


    n n −1

    c) Prove that  L , L±  = 0
    2
    5) Suppose a beam of 5.0eV protons strikes a potential energy barrier o height 6.0eV
    and thickness 7.0nm, at a rate equivalent to a current of 1000 A. How long would
    you have to wait on average for one proton to be transmitted? b) How long would
    you have to wait if the beam consisted of electron rather than protons?
    6) What is the minimum energy necessary if the particles obey Fermi-Dirac
    statistics? (Treat them as electrons, with spin = 1/2) Indicate how the states would be
    filled on the diagram at left.

    7) A particle of mass m is in the state

    ( )
    − a  mx 2 / h + it 
    ψ ( x, t ) = Ae  

    Find the normalization constant of the above wave function.

    8) A particle is trapped in an infinite one-dimensional well of width 0.132nm. The


    electron is in the n=10 state. A) What is energy of the electron? B) What is the
    uncertainty in its momentum?

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