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Fallen Seraph
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I'm not looking for a solution, but rather trying to understand the question.
We've been given a series of potentials, U(x), and have been told to find the one-dimensional particle motion in them. For example:
U(x) = V(tan^2(cx)), V>0
My initial reaction was just to solve it for x(t), but after having found a(x), I'm not so sure that this is possible analytically... (I can't visualise a solution to -ma=2cV(tan(cx))(1+tan^2(cx))
So perhaps the question is asking to find the period of the oscillatory motion? But it certainly doesn't look like that's what it's asking...
We've been given a series of potentials, U(x), and have been told to find the one-dimensional particle motion in them. For example:
U(x) = V(tan^2(cx)), V>0
My initial reaction was just to solve it for x(t), but after having found a(x), I'm not so sure that this is possible analytically... (I can't visualise a solution to -ma=2cV(tan(cx))(1+tan^2(cx))
So perhaps the question is asking to find the period of the oscillatory motion? But it certainly doesn't look like that's what it's asking...