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3.5.6.2 Solution pipee-b
Question:
Just for fun, plug macroscopic values, 1 kg and 1 m, into the expression for the ground state energy and see how big it is. Note that 1.054 57 10 J s.
Answer:
or 3.4 10 eV. That energy is much less than you could ever hope to observe physically. A single photon of light would dwarf it by 50 orders of magnitude.