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Limit of infinite walls

First, reproduce the wavefunction and condition for eigenenergies as in Eq. (2), but for the case where . ( Hint: If you are good with complex trigonometry, you can save yourself some effort by noting what happens when you define .)

Now, what does your condition on E become in the limit ? Show that as the quantum number , the energies you find are higher than the corresponding infinite square well energies by .

Hint: You may find a graphical solution useful.



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Sat Apr 6 15:33:22 EST 1996