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Chapter 7, Problem 76P
A grain of sand with mass 1.0 mg and kinetic energy 1.0 J is incident on a potential energy barrier with height 1.00000 J and width 2500 nm. How many grains of sand have to fall on this barrier before, on the average, one passes through?
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