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walls separated by a distance L. Imagine that the two oppositely directed matter waves associated with this
particle interfere to create a standing wave with a node at each of the walls. Find the kinetic energies of the
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the kinetic energy of the n-th harmonic.
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(c) Find the de Broglie wavelength of an electron that is accelerated from rest through a small potential
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