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(a) Write down explicitly the first and second harmonic-oscillator wave functions, including normalization constants (b) Show...

(a) Write down explicitly the first and second harmonic-oscillator wave functions, including normalization constants

(b) Show that the second harmonic-oscillator wave function is normalized

(c) Show that the two functions in part (a) are orthogonal

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