Solution

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The one-dimensional time-independent Schrödinger equation is
Here is the particle mass, its potential energy, the stationary energy eigenvalue, and the reduced Planck constant. The spatial wavefunction is ; the full stationary state is . Physical bound states satisfy the boundary conditions and wavefunction normalization . The operator on the left is the Hamiltonian operator, the sum of kinetic and potential energies.

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