Recent content by Miley

I'm a college student, almost finished with undergrad and hopefully headed for veterinary school (I'll know sometime around February or March). Math has always been a weakness of mine, and physics an absolute pain to deal with--but it's a part of life. Sometimes you just have to struggle and do...

Homework Statement A stream of electrons is of energy E is incident on a potential barrier of height U and thickness d. Even though U >> E, 5% of the electrons tunnel through the barrier. If the thickness of the barrier decrease to 0.86 d, what percentage of the electrons will tunnel...