Physical Chemistry
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A 1.00 kg weight is traveling at a constant velocity of 10.0 ms-1, in a cubic room 3.00 m on an edge.
(a). Determine the sum of the squares of its three quantum numbers.
(b). What would be the ground state energy for this weight?
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