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Classical Analysis

The standard classical analysis of this system gives simple harmonic motion:

where is the frequency of the oscillator as in (1) and is the amplitude of the oscillations. The period of the motion in (12) is just constant

and so from the arguments in (1.3), we expect the spacings in the quantum spectrum in the classical limit to also be constant

Finally, the energy of the motion is



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Wed Oct 11 20:51:17 EDT 1995