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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
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2016
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S3
/
2
/
a
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2026-10-25
Integrating
F
=
−
k
x
gives
V
=
k
x
2
/2
up to
a
constant. Thus
−
ℏ
2
ϕ
′′
/
(
2
m
)
+
m
ω
2
x
2
ϕ
/2
=
Eϕ
, with
ω
=
k
/
m
. The potential is
a
symmetric upward
parabola
and tends to
infinity
in both directions; normalizable states decay at large
∣
x
∣
.
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