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7.6 Exercise 13

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A muon, a quantum particle with a mass approximately 200 times that of an electron, is incident on a potential barrier of height 10.0 eV. The kinetic energy of the impacting muon is 5.5 eV and only about 0.10% of the squared amplitude of its incoming wave function filters through the barrier. What is the barrier’s width?

OpenStax University Physics Volume 3, 7.6 The Quantum Tunneling of Particles through Potential Barriers, exercise 13

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