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We now solve quantum mechanical problems in order to see how the theory works. We we consider the motion of particles in simple potentials and the quantization of energy.
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Basdevant, JL. (2016). Energy Quantization. In: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43479-7_5
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