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Students tend to use classical intuitions to think about quantum problems

• For the tunneling problem, many students think that the energy of the particle is lost in tunneling through the barrier.
  • In the exam:
  • In the interview, half of the students (3/6)
  • Sample responses:
    • "since it tunneled through the barrier, it got to lose some energy.î
    • "beam A loses more KE than bean B because EA <U0.î
    • "there is decay here for the energy in the barrier..."

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