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<p><font face="serif">I know some of you are stressing out over the
exam tomorrow. It is the first time we have hit material that
is completely foreign to you. Trust me -- I remember those
feeling. Hopefully this e-mail will help reduce some of the
stress.</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">You will see problems that are similar to the
worksheet problems that we did in class. As far as the multiple
choice goes, I have stated over and over again that you should
think about the big picture and what these model potentials
represent physically, what differentiates them from each other,
and what interesting phenomena they introduce that helps explain
the quantum world. <br>
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<p><font face="serif">I introduced terms like operators,
observables, expectation values, normalization, orthogonality,
stationary state, degeneracy, eigenvalue, and eigenfunctions.
While I may not ask you to do any complicated calculus involving
these (you don't have time in a 50 min), I could certainly ask
about definitions and relations between these in the multiple
choice section.<br>
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<p>Try to relax remembering that I really do have your knowledge and
success in mind; get some sleep tonight, and see you in the
morning...<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b><i>Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.</i></b><br>
<i>Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science</i><br>
<i>Director of the Computational Science Program</i><br>
<i>Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627</i></div>
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