Essential University Physics (3rd Edition)
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Chapter 12, Problem 63P
Engineers designing a new semiconductor device measure the potential energy that results when they move an electron to different positions within their device. The device is one-dimensional. so the positions all lie along a line. The table below gives the resulting data. Plot these data and from your plot, determine the approximate positions of any equilibria and whether such equilibria are stable or unstable.
Position x (nm) | 0 | 3.26 | 5.85 | 6.41 | 7.12 | 9.37 | 10.5 | 12.2 | 14.0 | 14.5 | 15.3 | 17.2 |
Potential energy U (aJ) | 1.5 | 0.65 | 0.30 | 0.47 | 0.85 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 2.1 | −0.47 | −0.86 | −0.72 | 3.2 |
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