Find the Kinetic Energy (In Terms of Planck's Constant) of a Baseball

question 9

Multiple Choice

Find the kinetic energy (in terms of Planck's constant) of a baseball (m = 1 kg) confined to a one-dimensional box that is 25 cm wide if the baseball can be treated as a wave in the ground state.

• A) 3 h²
• B) 2 h²
• C) h²
• D) 4h²
• E) 0.5 h²

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