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8-6. If you were to use a trial function of the form p(x) = (1+cax²)e-ax²/2, where a =
(ku/h²)1/2 and c is a variational parameter, to calculate the ground-state energy of a
harmonic oscillator, what do you think the value of c will come out to be? Why?

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