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.