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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2004 J J1 ii Solution by
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For hard-wall confinement, the stationary spatial modes and energies areTheir 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 asThe 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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