Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-options-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2004/j/j1/ii/solution

For hard-wall confinement, the stationary spatial modes and energies are
Their stationary time dependence is . The correct triple-angle identity is ; the printed hint has its right side reversed in sign. Thus the specified initial state expands as
The coefficients have squared moduli summing to one. The first requested energy is , so its probability is . The other requested energy is , which is not for any positive integer , so its probability is . The occupied excited energy is instead , with probability .

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