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Avoiding falling through the bottom

Explain how we know that there are no normalizable solutions for E<0. Use this fact to show that if is normalizable then the sequence , , must eventually yield . What does this imply about the allowed values of the energy?



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Tue Apr 30 08:11:46 EDT 1996