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Sudden Change

Now you instead ``suddenly'' open the box, so quickly that the state of electron does not have time to respond during the opening process. How much work is done by the electron as the wall on the right moves from x=L to x=2L? What force does the electron impose on the wall of the box during this process? Give a qualitative physical explanation of your result for the force in terms of the behavior of the wave function of the particle.



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Sat May 3 22:22:05 EDT 1997