Consider a quantum mechanical particle of mass m moving in one dimension, in a potential well
V(x)=⎩⎪⎨⎪⎧∞,0,V0,x<00<x<ax>a
Sketch the ground state energy eigenfunction χ(x) and show that its energy is E=2mℏ2k2, where k satisfies
tanka=−ℏ22mV0−k2k.
[Hint: You may assume that χ(0)=0.]