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My textbook says the ground state energy of the QSHO is given by 1/2*h_bar*w and that this is the minimum energy consistent with the uncertainty principle. However I am having trouble deriving this myself... ΔEΔt ≥ h_bar / 2.. so then ΔE/Δfrequency ≥ h_bar / 2...
ΔE*2*pi / w ≥ h_bar / 2
ΔE ≥ h_bar*w / 4*pi
what am I doing wrong?
ΔE*2*pi / w ≥ h_bar / 2
ΔE ≥ h_bar*w / 4*pi
what am I doing wrong?