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Averages and Solutions of the TDSE (30 pts total)

Background: Consider a particle of mass m subjected to the potential of a Simple Harmonic Oscillator (SHO) of frequency . The Hamiltonian for this system is

The allowed energies and several wavefunctions of the SHO are

where, as before,

and happens to be the Hermite polynomial. ( Note: this problem requires no knowledge of Hermite polynomials.)





Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Fri Apr 19 09:33:33 EDT 1996