A marble rolls back and forth across a shoebox at a constant speed of 0.8 m/s. Make an order-of-magnitude estimate of the probability of it escaping through the wall of the box by quantum tunneling. State the quantities you take as data and the values you measure or estimate for them.

A marble rolls back and forth across a shoebox at a constant speed of 0.8 m/s. Make an order-of-magnitude estimate of the probability of it escaping through the wall of the box by quantum tunneling. State the quantities you take as data and the values you measure or estimate for them.

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