4: Energy Levels
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- 4.1: Bound Problems
- Although the potential determined the space-dependent wavefunction, there was no limitation imposed on the possible wavenumbers and energies involved. An infinite number of continuous energies were possible solutions to the time-independent Schrödinger equation. In this chapter, we want instead to describe systems which are best described as particles confined inside a potential.