OurBigBook About$ Donate
 Sign in Sign up

Past exam of the MPhil in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise course of the University of Cambridge / 2019 / Paper 2 / Section A(ii) / 15 / iv / a

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Past exam of the MPhil in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Paper 2 Section A(ii) 15 iv
2026-10-20  0 By others on same topic  0 Discussions Create my own version
  • Table of contents
    • Solution a

Solution

 0  0
a
Only n=1,2,3 have En​<10c. The printed squared coefficients sum to S=0.12+0.42+0.32+0.862=0.9996, rather than exactly one. Normalizing those numbers gives
P(E<10c)=0.99960.01+0.16+0.09​=0.260104…≃26.0%.​
(1)
Treating the coefficients as rounded values of an already normalized state gives the intended approximately 0.26 answer. Probabilities are sums of squared amplitudes because the energy eigenstates are orthonormal.

 Ancestors (11)

  1. iv
  2. 15
  3. Section A(ii)
  4. Paper 2
  5. 2019
  6. Past exam of the MPhil in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise course of the University of Cambridge
  7. MPhil in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise course of the University of Cambridge
  8. Course of the University of Cambridge
  9. University of Cambridge
  10. List of universities
  11.  Home

 View article source

 Discussion (0)

New discussion

There are no discussions about this article yet.

 Articles by others on the same topic (0)

There are currently no matching articles.
  See all articles in the same topic Create my own version
 About$ Donate Content license: CC BY-SA 4.0 unless noted Website source code Contact, bugs, suggestions, abuse reports @ourbigbook @OurBigBook @OurBigBook