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runninglow
Nov23-08, 01:35 PM
how can i know the number of boundstate of a particle acting under a deltafunction potential?

Vanadium 50
Nov23-08, 01:42 PM
Draw the wavefunction. How many ways are there to do this?

nicksauce
Nov23-08, 02:08 PM
Or if you want to go the whole nine

1) Write Schrodinger's equation
2) Solve Schrodinger's equation with the appropriate boundary conditions (Psi continuous at x=0, dPsi/dx discontinuous by a certain amount), and the condition that E<0
3) Show that there is in fact only one such state