Understanding Ramped Finite Wells

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References

This illustration is inspired by "one of the best quantum mechanics problems ever posed" [D. Styer, Quantum Mechanics: See it Now, AAPT Kissimmee, FL Jan 2000 and http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/TeachQM/see.html.], Problem 3-17 (Exposing an unsuccessful plot, p. 152) in An Introduction to Quantum Physics, A. P. French and Edwin F. Taylor, Norton, New York, 1978. 

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Script by Mario Belloni.
Java applets by Wolfgang Christian.