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RicardoMP
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Hi! I've been studying the time-independent Schrödinger equation and the infinite square well and was faced with this problem from Griffith's "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics". Rewriting the equation this way $$\frac{d^2\psi}{dx^2}=\frac{2m}{\hbar^2}[V(x)-E]\psi$$, I have to show that E must exceed the minimum value of V(x), otherwise $$\psi$$ and its second derivative will always have the same sign, which would compromise its normalization. Why is that? I've been thinking for awhile and can't come up with a good proof that such function cannot be normalized.