Consider an infinite potential well with the width a. What happens to the ground state wavelength if the widthdecreases?O It does not change.O It will increase.O It will decrease.

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Consider an infinite potential well with the width a. What happens to the ground state wavelength if the width decreases? O It does not change. O It will increase. O It will decrease.