## Question on Finding Transmission Coefficient

1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data
Find the transmission coefficient for the potential $$V(x)=-\alpha\left[\delta\left(x+a\right)+\delta\left(x-a\right)\right]$$, where alpha and a are positive constants.

2. Relevant equations
$$T \equiv \frac{\left|F\right|^{2}}{\left|A\right|^{2}}$$

3. The attempt at a solution
I'm technically not sure on where to begin this problem. After reading the section (twice now), I noticed that it pretty much explicitly omits considering potentials which are not zero. And also, there is another formula for the transmission coefficient
$$T=\frac{1}{1+ \beta^{2}}$$
but, again, I'm not too sure on whether I should be using this one. My first instinct is to solve the Schrodinger wave equation, but it looks to be fairly mmessy with those dirac deltas.

Am I missing something really obvious? To recap, it looks like the book's section wanted to purposely omit non-zero potentials, and yet this problem appears to have a non-zero potential, leaving me clueless as to how to deal with it short of starting from scratch.
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 ahhh, that's right. Thanks a lot, it makes a lot more sense from your first sentence and I can make some more progress on this one now.