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Eigenstates for the Simple Harmonic Oscillator (SHO)

 

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Figure 2: Potential function tex2html_wrap_inline460

Sketch the first three eigenstates for the potential tex2html_wrap_inline566 . By counting the number of wavelengths which occur in a complete orbit between the classical turning points, give a better estimate (than that they simply be integer multiples of Planck's constant h) of the expected values of the classical action integral of the SHO, tex2html_wrap_inline570 , in allowed orbits. What does your amended Bohr-Sommerfeld condition give for the allowed energies of the SHO?



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Fri Apr 25 11:33:56 EDT 1997