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Professor tunneling through a wall

Estimate the tunneling probability for an professor approaching an thick wall at a top speed of . You may take the height of the potential barrier to be given by the energy of interspersing my molecules amongst those of the wall, resulting in an energy on the order of per molecule. I am consist primarily of water with a molecular weight of .

Explain why, in this case, you should ignore the step correction terms and consider only the WKB decay.



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