UNIVERSITY PHYSICS,VOL.3 (OER)
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Chapter 9, Problem 63P
Consider a cube of copper with edges 1.50 mm long. Estimate the number of electron quantum states in this cube whose energies are in the range 3.75 to 3.77 eV.
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