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An electron is trapped in a one-dimensional infinite potential well that is 460 pm wide; the electron is in its ground state. What is the probability that you can detect the electron in an interval of width δx = 5.0 pm centered at x = 300 pm? (Hint: The interval δx is so narrow that you can take the probability density to be constant within it.)
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